Dear Emmie Blue: A Novel (Paperback)

from Twink

It was the balloon that sold me on Lia Louis's new book, Dear Emmie Blue. Emmie was sixteen when she tied her contact information to a balloon and let it fly. The balloon made it from England to France, where Lucas found it. The two connected and have been the best of friends for fourteen years. ...

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This is a sweet book, and beautifully read. Emmie Blue has had a sad life. She doesn't know her father and her mother is cold and unloving. Her trust has been brutally betrayed by a school-friend's father. Her only real joy has been her friendship with Lucas, the boy who found the balloon message...

from samnreader

read, book-boyfriend, book-hangover, read-in-2020 I made up for all the hours I did not read past weeks in the consecutive hours last night since I started this book and now I'm very tired and happy.

from kimkimkim

“A nice three-bed semi, a family and someone to love you” is all Emmie Blue ever wanted. What she got was a neglectful, uncaring mother who was mostly absent and a father who is a question mark. Poor Emmie Blue, absolutely nothing goes her way. Actually, it is worse than that, she has been taken ...

from pdebolt

When Emmie Blue shows up for dinner with her best friend and long-time love, Lucas, the question he "pops" is not the one she expected. Being his "best woman" at his wedding is a far cry from being his bride; however, Emmie hides her feelings and soldiers on through a plethora of uncomfortable si...