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Chapters 1 - 9

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Han, Jenny. It's Not Summer Without You. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010. Summer Series Book 2.

• In Chapter 1, the book begins with a daydream 16-year-old Belly is having, though at first the reader is not aware of the daydream.

• Belly is at Cousins with her mom, brother, her mom’s best friend, Susannah, and Susannah’s two children, Jeremiah and Conrad.

• Belly has spent every summer of her life at Susannah’s beach house, and the previous year she had finally started dating her lifelong crush, Conrad.

• Belly and the boys jump into the pool, but then Belly’s best friend, Taylor, rouses her from her daydream and brings her back to reality, where she is not in Cousins, she is not with Conrad, and Susannah is dead from cancer.

• Belly is sitting...

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