Emmie has had a crush on her best friend's brother, Deacon, for years and although he is the town bad boy she is sure he is innocent of a violent assult on his father except for one thing--his own sister believes Deacon is guilty.

Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.

Jessie, twelve, copes with what promised to be a long, boring summer with relatives by becoming apprentice to Wes, a grouchy neighborhood dog walker, who is facing new competition.

"Join Honey on his continuing adventures of becoming a cowboy. He finally graduates from high school ... 'I didn't graduate with honors, but it was an honor to graduate' ... and takes on more responsibility at his summer ranch job, continues his relationship with his girlfriend Sally, and has many surprises in store for him---some good and some not so good, "--Back cover.

Follow our young cowboy friend while he works his summer job at a dude ranch where he picks up the nickname "Honey"--A moniker he doesn't much like. He also finds himself with a girlfriend -- a situation he does like. "Honey" follows our young friend on his journey into manhood, which includes nightly kissing practice with his girlfriend Sally.

Before starting college, Cricket Thompson returns to Nantucket for a summer filled with hard choices and infinite possibility--

A lovesick teenager schemes to win the heart of her crush at her amusement park summer job, all while dressed as a hot dog.

After taking a summer job with a Chicago ghost tour company, eighteen-year-old Megan is interrogated for murder, when the reports of real ghost sightings increase along with the number of missing tourists.

"A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness ensues as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina with the Asheville Tourists. In the spring of 1994, Ryan McGee (new college graduate) bombed his coveted interview with ESPN - the only place he ever...

"Bill Geist reflects on his coming of age in the American heartland of the Midwest and traces his evolution as a man and a writer, in the summers between high school and college, before he went off to Vietnam and the country went to Hell."--Provided by publisher