It’s just for a year, she added.Ī year?my brother repeated. Our complete and utter shock must have showed on our faces because my mother started to laugh. She’s wanted to go back to England ever since she was a graduate student there.Īctually, he replied. It’s all your mother’s fault, my father said, trying to look disapproving but failing miserably. My brother and I exchanged a wary glance.
But, he continued, for once in our lives, we decided to throw caution to the wind and do something a little crazy. Your mother and I have been talking, and we know we should probably put the money I’m getting into fixing a few things around the house, or replacing our rattletrap of a car, or beefing up your college funds. They’re going to publish his novel, the one he’s been working on for years. Two weeks ago, he got a call from a publisher in New York. Your mother and I have a surprise for you, he told my brother and me.Īnother one? I asked. I only found out about it myself an hour ago, at breakfast. Of course I’ll be sad to leave Concord, and all of my friends, especially her. The thing is, I really want Jess to be happy for me, the way I was for her last year when she got the scholarship to Colonial Academy. Wouldn’t you want to go, if you were me? I ask softly. I knew that breaking the news to my best friend would be hard, but I didn’t know it was going to be this hard. Just for a year! It might as well be forever! What do you mean, you’re moving to England? ‘I often think,’ said she, ‘that there is nothing so bad as parting with one’s friends. There's plenty to write to their new friends about, from a prank-filled slumber party to a not-so-secret puppy-and even a surprise first kiss.I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! Inspired by Jess's unexpected opportunity, the book club decides to read Jean Webster's classic Daddy-Long-legs, and there's an added twist this year when they become pen pals with the girls in a book club in Wyoming. Meanwhile Megan's grandmother comes for a long visit and turns everything in the Wong household upside down Emma crusades against her middle school's new uniforms and Cassidy finds out there's a big change ahead for her family.
"Could the book club break up? When Jess is offered an anonymous scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, she's not sure that leaving home-and her friends-is what she wants to do. Dear Pen Pal is the third book in the Mother Daughter Book Club series, by Heather Vogel Frederick.
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