From the author of Pest --a Washington Post Noteworthy Book--comes a hilarious new novel that showcases the author\'s talents at their best.
With a fresh style and perspective, and bursting with humor and charm, Boat Girl is a quirky and fast-paced YA coming-of-age story that will have you laughing out loud..
And when the sailboat\'s former owners come looking for their forgotten contraband, she wonders if she\'ll ever get the chance to find out.
She just can\'t help wondering, though, if New Caitlin and the real Caitlin have anything in common.
Even Tristan, the cutest guy on the island, is beguiled by her easygoing air and artfully padded bikini top.
People ( plural! ) in the BVI actually like her, and not only because of the interesting stuff she found beneath her new home\'s splintery floorboards.
And it works .
So when her best--and only--friend suggests she use the move as a chance to reinvent herself, Caitlin has nothing to lose.
To live on a derelict sailboat, bought sight-unseen from navigationally-impaired cigar smugglers. for a year . . .
And now her parents are taking the family to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) .
She\'s two years younger than everyone else in her grade.
She prefers Evernote to SnapChat.
She\'s scrawny.
She\'s short.
Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Davies\'s life is challenging enough.
From the author of Pest --a Washington Post Noteworthy Book--comes a hilarious new novel that showcases the author\'s talents at their best
