A Year in Europe: Three Novels
by Rachel Hawthorne
by Rachel Hawthorne
A YEAR IN EUROPE by Rachel Hawthorne
Category: Contemporary
Age Recommendation: Grades 9+
Release Date: 9/11/07
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel
Rating: 5 Stars
Three best friends from Texas set out together to spend a year of high school in Europe’s biggest cities.
Kit travels to London to try and become a proper lady. She believes that she’ll have a new sister as a housemate --
imagine her surprise when Robin turns out to be a boy (and a real hottie!). Unfortunately, he has a girlfriend with serious
snark aimed at Kit and all of her traveling blunders.
Dana journeys to Paris for a romantic relationship, but instead she seems to always run into a boy from Texas. To make
things worse, she keeps thinking about him when all she wants is to be swept off her feet by a Frenchman.
Carrie spends her year in Rome, where her father still has family. While working at the family restaurant, she meets a
gorgeous waiter who happens to hate Americans. She tricks him by blending into the Italian world and now she knows
her heart will break when he learns the truth.
All three girls come to terms with themselves and romance during their year abroad. Read this novel and be swept off
your feet while traveling the world in your pajamas. Rachel Hawthorne is one of the top writers of teen romance!
Category: Contemporary
Age Recommendation: Grades 9+
Release Date: 9/11/07
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel
Rating: 5 Stars
Three best friends from Texas set out together to spend a year of high school in Europe’s biggest cities.
Kit travels to London to try and become a proper lady. She believes that she’ll have a new sister as a housemate --
imagine her surprise when Robin turns out to be a boy (and a real hottie!). Unfortunately, he has a girlfriend with serious
snark aimed at Kit and all of her traveling blunders.
Dana journeys to Paris for a romantic relationship, but instead she seems to always run into a boy from Texas. To make
things worse, she keeps thinking about him when all she wants is to be swept off her feet by a Frenchman.
Carrie spends her year in Rome, where her father still has family. While working at the family restaurant, she meets a
gorgeous waiter who happens to hate Americans. She tricks him by blending into the Italian world and now she knows
her heart will break when he learns the truth.
All three girls come to terms with themselves and romance during their year abroad. Read this novel and be swept off
your feet while traveling the world in your pajamas. Rachel Hawthorne is one of the top writers of teen romance!