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Summer of Yesterday
Summer of Yesterday
Summer of Yesterday
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Summer of Yesterday

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Back to the Future meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Haley’s summer vacation takes a turn for the retro in this totally rad romantic fantasy.

Summer officially sucks. Thanks to a stupid seizure she had a few months earlier, Haley’s stuck going on vacation with her dad and his new family to Disney’s Fort Wilderness instead of enjoying the last session of summer camp back home with her friends. Fort Wilderness holds lots of childhood memories for her father, but surely nothing for Haley. But then a new seizure triggers something she’s never before experienced—time travel—and she ends up in River Country, the campground’s long-abandoned water park, during its heyday.

The year? 1982.

And there—with its amusing fashion, “oldies” music, and primitive technology—she runs into familiar faces: teenage Dad and Mom before they’d even met. Somehow, Haley must find her way back to the twenty-first century before her present-day parents anguish over her disappearance, a difficult feat now that she’s met Jason, one of the park’s summer residents and employees, who takes the strangely dressed stowaway under his wing.

Seizures aside, Haley’s used to controlling her life, and she has no idea how to deal with this dilemma. How can she be falling for a boy whose future she can’t share?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 17, 2014
ISBN9781481401319
Summer of Yesterday
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Gaby Triana

Gaby Triana is the author of three other novels, The Temptress Four, Cubanita, and Backstage Pass. She lives in Miami, Florida, with her husband and their four children.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Summer of Yesterday is a time-travel romance from a teenager's point of view - it felt authentically teenagery to me, though at 30 years old, I might not be the best judge of that. I do think that I would have loved it when I was a teen myself. Other than the time travel, the main selling point is that it takes place at Ft Wilderness in 1982.The plot was a little bit perfunctory, and I had many moments where I couldn't figure out exactly how much time had passed since Haley had arrived in 1982. I remember at one point, the description of time made it seem as though she'd been there for several days, when in fact only one afternoon had passed! The romance aspect also seemed a little weak, but I suppose I could attribute that to it being a story about a fifteen-year-old. If anything, it was the ending that bothered me the most. I was half expecting Haley to have dreamed her trip back in time, but instead we got a very swift transition back to current time that felt a little off, as though the book would have been better to have another thirty or fifty pages.Although I love time travel stories, it was definitely the setting at Walt Disney World that made me request a library copy of the book. I basically grew up with monthly trips to Fort Wilderness, since my dad and us kids enjoyed camping, but my mom liked the creature comforts that the Disney campground provided, as compared to the state parks or something. I did think it would be fun to read a book set in a place filled with nostalgia, but that may also have been a problem... I found myself nitpicking a lot of little details that were clearly changed to facilitate the story, but which weren't exactly truthful, and then being disappointed that other features and favorites of the resort weren't mentioned at all.Overall, it's a fun read, and not bad if you enjoy light time travel stories. Much of the plot is actually about Haley gaining confidence in herself and repairing her relationship with her family, but it's done with a mostly chaste romance with a slightly older teenage boy. But if you're intimately familiar with the setting, you might find yourself nitpicking like I did.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    After having a seizure Hayley now has to spend the summer with her dad instead of at a summer camp with her friends. She isn't happy about this and thinks her summer at Disney's Fort Wilderness is going to be awful. Fortunately Hayley finds some new friends and while she's taking part in a scavenger hunt she breaks into an old water park named River Country. There she has another seizure, one that takes her back in time, to 1982.

    Hayley goes back to a time and place where her parents are still teenagers. She even has the chance to meet them, but how will she explain who she is and what she's doing there? She also has no idea how to handle being in a different time without anywhere to stay or money in her pocket. Fortunately she meets a nice employee of the park. His name is Jason and he takes care of Hayley without knowing who she is or where she's from, just because she needs it. Hayley likes Jason a lot, but she can't fall for him. Will Hayley find her way home again and does she even want to go back to her own time?

    Summer of Yesterday is a wonderful romantic story about time traveling. I immediately loved Hayley. She's a sweet girl who doesn't like that her summer plans have changed and that she has to spend her precious time in a park where she doesn't know anyone. When she has a seizure something strange happens to her, she goes back in time. I liked this idea and Gaby Triana's execution is great. I loved the way she combines Hayley's experiences of her own time and the time she's being stranded in.

    Gaby Triana's writing style is easy to read. I was hooked from the start and read the story in one sitting. I was intrigued and couldn't put it down. The setting is fantastic, I loved reading more about the parks and she describes them in a vivid way. Everything comes to life very well. The main characters are charming and cute, but at the same time they aren't afraid to take risks. Jason is such a nice guy and I could immediately imagine why Hayley didn't think ending up in the past wasn't so bad after all. I was curious to find out how the story would end and loved the direction Gaby Triana has chosen. Summer of Yesterday is a fun and fascinating story and I really enjoyed reading it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved every part of the book. It made me laugh, angry, and it made me have an extreme case of teary eye. This book filled me with do much emotion I just had to write a review to show how much I loved it, though I could have done with how they ended up, but that just made it more raw to me.
    PS, this book is rad. It will be a blast reading it.?

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Tear jerking GREAT BOOK! Although I would've liked to read about what happened to Jason and Haleys relationship after
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    All right, let's be upfront here and say that my five stars for this book are essentially for my absolute unmitigated DELIGHT that someone wrote a YA book that takes place in River Country, the (now closed) water park attached to the Fort Wilderness camp gound at Walt Disney World. I should probably say what the book is about before going on with my ranting about River Country. A teenage girl goes back in time, to the 1980s, and ends up at River Country, where she meets a cute boy. That was all fine. This book is essentially about teenagers at Fort Wilderness, and I was about 8 on the first of the vacations we took there, and 11 on the second -- which is exactly when this book is set, and it completely brought back memories of being 11 years old and having fun with other kids, but also watching the teenagers and thinking they were SO COOL and how I couldn't wait to be a teenager so I could have the BIGGEST FEATHERED HAIR IN ALL OF DISNEY and sit on my Minnie Mouse towel on a beach chair in all of my feathered glory. The author nailed every tiny detail, it was a rush, even when she would describe the characters walking from place to place, it was EXACTLY how it was. She described the chairs. And the gift shops. And the attitude of the 80s. Um, why would you need a life jacket? Are you planning on falling out of the canoe?

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