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Narrated by:
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Bailey Carr
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Written by:
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Siobhan Vivian
From the author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World and The List comes a bold and sweet summer listen about first love, feminism, and ice cream.
Summer in Sand Lake isn't complete without a trip to Meade Creamery - the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade, who started making ice cream to cheer up her lovesick girlfriends while all the boys were away at war. Since then, the stand has been owned and managed exclusively by local girls, who inevitably become the best of friends.
Seventeen-year-old Amelia and her best friend, Cate, have worked at the stand every summer for the past three years, and Amelia is "Head Girl" at the stand this summer. When Molly passes away before Amelia even has her first day in charge, Amelia isn't sure that the stand can go on. That is, until Molly's grandnephew Grady arrives and asks Amelia to stay on to help continue the business...but Grady's got some changes in mind.
©2018 Siobhan Vivian (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Enter her nineteen year old grand nephew Grady. He seemed to understand this profession admirably. He hoped, most earnestly and anxiously, that it would go well.
Amelia showed an ardent submissive affection which promised to fulfil his most agreeable previsions of business. The sweet girl was at once convinced of his virtue, his exceptional ability, and above all, his perfect sincerity. He treated her with an assumption of friendliness that had in it no trace of condescension, and she was so obviously sincere in her wish to establish a cordial relation that it was impossible to remain ungracious.
All that summer she did the work of Meade on the ice cream; it seemed to be an understood thing. Pretty hard work she had to do for nineteen dollars. Ice cream making is very complicated, takes years to learn, but she had to learn in days. She could not bear to have her best friend Cate Copernick over here: she would be miserable. It was a thousand and a thousand, a million and a million times more important to her, than it could ever be to Cate! She had many lonely hours in the kitchen, for Cate was constrained to make the utmost use of her time selling ice cream with the other girls. She felt more at liberty when she had Grady for a companion.
His eyes held warmth, safety, his strength and tenderness. He was being unconsciously wrought upon by the charms of a nature which was entirely without hidden calculations. He advised Amelia that she shouldn’t be so dismissive of her braveries, no matter how small. She gave him a beaming smile. It was not only natural but necessary to the perfection of her womanhood to fall in love with him.
This year, she was promoted to the position of Head Girl.
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