Waking Up to Boys

Waking Up to Boys By Hailey Abbott

Chelsea McCormick has always been a girl-boy, and parents own a resort named Glittelake Resort by Lake Tahoe. Chelsea loves to wakeboard which she can do there, its her passion and her life. She startet out doing it when she was 14, and got lesson from Todd who is also a wakeboard instructor, and ever since she has been madly in love with him. This summer her parents gives her a job as a wakeboard instructor as she is old enough. Her half sister who Chelsea doesn´t really know has to stay with them this summer, and everybody likes her and think she is beautiful, so Chelsea is kind of jealous. She is hoping that Todd will finally see her as something other than a competition, but it doesn´t look like it. A new guy is beginning this year at the resort him name is Sebastian a brazilian guy who is a tennis instructor. When the first party for the staff arrives on the little island by the resort, Sebastian comes to Chelsea and after a while they are sitting in a boat kissing. soon they begin to sneak around kissing, when nobody sees them, but that all changes when Chelsea takes the extra set of keys to the spa at the resort, so the staff can hold a party. Chelsea dresses up nicely in a bathingsuit and look all girl, but then her father bustes them, at the same time Chelsea is in the tub kissing with Sebastian, he kind of humiliates her in front of the other, but she stands up for herself, after her father says that their punishment is to clear a path at the resort. Chelsea´s parents says she has to stop seeing Sebastian, but she doesn´t, she also starts to look in Sarah´s closet to know more about girls. Chelsea also breaks her arm, trying to pull a 720 on a wakeboard, when she is out with Todd. Now she can´t be in Northwest Extreme Watersports Challenge in the end of the summer if she doesn´t practice, so she gets Sebastian to help her in secret. Todd is snapping more and more at her, but at a party he kisses her, but Sebastian sees and is mad. Chelsea finds out that Todd actually likes her, but can they work it out? Will Chealsea learn to accept her sister? And will she compete in The Northwest Extreme Watersports Challenge?

A sweet summer book to read when you are bored. But the book is kind of boring.


Grade: 4