Places We've Never Been

Informationen zum Autor Kasie West is the author of many YA novels, including Sunkissed, The Fill-in Boyfriend, P.S. I Like You, Lucky in Love, and Listen to Your Heart. Her books have been named ALA-YALSA Quick Picks, JLG Selections, and ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults. When she's not writing, she's binge-watching television, devouring books, or road-tripping to new places. Kasie lives in Fresno, California, with her family. Klappentext A sweet and swoony contemporary young adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her childhood best friend on an unexpected road to romance! Norah hasn't seen her childhood best friend, Skyler, in years. When he first moved away, they talked all the time, but lately their relationship has been reduced to liking each other's Instagram posts. That's why Norah can't wait for the joint RV road trip their families have planned for the summer. But when Skyler finally arrives, he seems . . . like he'd rather be anywhere else. Hurt and confused, Norah reacts in kind. Suddenly, her oldest friendship is on the rocks. An unexpected summer spent driving across the country leads both Norah and Skyler down new roads and to new discoveries. Before long, they are, once again, seeing each other in a different light. Can their friendship-turned-rivalry turn into something more? Leseprobe Chapter 1 Norah, breathe, Willow said with a laugh. I swear I've never seen you this excited in my life. I'm starting to get jealous. I swatted her arm with a folded blue sweatshirt, then added it to the open suitcase on my bed. You should be jealous, I teased. He was my best friend for most of my life. You only just passed three years. I think was is the key word there. She was right, of course. I hadn't seen Skyler since the summer before eighth grade. That's when he and his family moved across the country to Ohio. We'd Snapped and messaged and texted a lot that first year, but every year since, we'd drifted more and more apart until we basically had zero communication. Now all we did was occasionally like each other's posts on Instagram. I was kidding, Willow said. Bring back your super-cute excited face. Tell me more about taking over Pokémon gyms and gummy worm dioramas and video game marathons and how you did all this without kissing this boy, not even once. I laughed. He left when we were thirteen. And? I dug through the top drawer of my dresser and scooped up a handful of socks. I threw them in the air like confetti. And now he's coming back! For three weeks, she reminded me. Where you will be crammed in an RV together. Sounds--she picked up a sock ball from where it had landed on the floor next to her and half-heartedly threw it in the air--fun? This trip is going to be amazing. I get to see my childhood best friend. I get to visit my future college. It's like my past--I held up my left hand--and my future--I held up my right--are coming together! I joined my hands in a dramatic clap. What did you just do with your hands? That didn't look good. Are you getting in a major traffic accident on this trip? I frowned at my hands, which were still clasped, fingers intertwined. No, it represents a magical combination where magical things are going to happen. It looked like a major collision--glass and twisted metal everywhere. I rolled my eyes. You really are jealous. Yes, I am. He will not take back best friend status from me. I will fight him to the death for it. Weapon of choice? I asked, collecting the socks, then dropping them in my suitcase. Probably a long sword. Or a throwing ax. It depends. Is he tall? He wasn't four years ago. My phone buzzed on the bed with a text. Behind me, Willow's phone buzzed too. It was a message from Leena...

Autorentext

Kasie West is the author of many YA novels, including Sunkissed, The Fill-in Boyfriend, P.S. I Like You, Lucky in Love, and Listen to Your Heart. Her books have been named ALA-YALSA Quick Picks, JLG Selections, and ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults. When she's not writing, she's binge-watching television, devouring books, or road-tripping to new places. Kasie lives in Fresno, California, with her family.

Klappentext

A sweet and swoony contemporary young adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her childhood best friend on an unexpected road to romance!

Norah hasn’t seen her childhood best friend, Skyler, in years. When he first moved away, they talked all the time, but lately their relationship has been reduced to liking each other’s Instagram posts. That’s why Norah can’t wait for the joint RV road trip their families have planned for the summer.

But when Skyler finally arrives, he seems . . . like he’d rather be anywhere else. Hurt and confused, Norah reacts in kind. Suddenly, her oldest friendship is on the rocks.

An unexpected summer spent driving across the country leads both Norah and Skyler down new roads and to new discoveries. Before long, they are, once again, seeing each other in a different light. Can their friendship-turned-rivalry turn into something more?

Leseprobe

Chapter 1

“Norah, breathe,” Willow said with a laugh. “I swear I’ve never seen you this excited in my life. I’m starting to get jealous.”

I swatted her arm with a folded blue sweatshirt, then added it to the open suitcase on my bed. “You should be jealous,” I teased. “He was my best friend for most of my life. You only just passed three years.”

“I think was is the key word there.”

She was right, of course. I hadn’t seen Skyler since the summer before eighth grade. That’s when he and his family moved across the country to Ohio. We’d Snapped and messaged and texted a lot that first year, but every year since, we’d drifted more and more apart until we basically had zero communication. Now all we did was occasionally like each other’s posts on Instagram.

“I was kidding,” Willow said. “Bring back your super-cute excited face. Tell me more about taking over Pokémon gyms and gummy worm dioramas and video game marathons and how you did all this without kissing this boy, not even once.”

I laughed. “He left when we were thirteen.”

“And?”

I dug through the top drawer of my dresser and scooped up a handful of socks. I threw them in the air like confetti. “And now he’s coming back!”

“For three weeks,” she reminded me. “Where you will be crammed in an RV together. Sounds”--she picked up a sock ball from where it had landed on the floor next to her and half-heartedly threw it in the air--“fun?”

“This trip is going to be amazing. I get to see my childhood best friend. I get to visit my future college. It’s like my past”--I held up my left hand--“and my future”--I held up my right--“are coming together!” I joined my hands in a dramatic clap.

“What did you just do with your hands? That didn’t look good. Are you getting in a major traffic accident on this trip?”

I frowned at my hands, which were still clasped, fingers intertwined. “No, it represents a magical combination where magical things are going to happen.”

“It looked like a major collision--glass and twisted metal everywhere.”

I rolled my eyes. “You really are jealous.”

“Yes, I am. He will not take back best friend status from me. I will fight him to the death for it.”

“Weapon of choice?” I asked, collecting the socks, then dropping them in my suitcase.

“Probably a long sword. Or a throwing ax. It depends. Is he tall?”

“He wasn’t four years ago.”

My phone buzzed on the bed with a text. Behind me, Willow’s phone buzzed too. It…