Seventeenth Summer [Mass Market Paperback]

Maureen Daly (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket Books (December 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671443860
• ISBN-13: 978-0671443863
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,844,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My GRANDDAUGHTERS love my favorite book - SEVENTEENTH SUMMER, October 6, 2003

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Terry Fenwick (Half Moon Bay, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Seventeenth Summer (Hardcover)

I am 71 and about 56 years ago, at age 15, I fell in love with Jack. Actually, I remember it as though it were yesterday. Every girl I knew read SEVENTEENTH SUMMER that year and we were all weak with 'true' love as we lived this sweet romance. We were giddy in PE class!

I never had a daughter but I have now given this wonderful book to my Granddaughters and they also loved it. Young people live so much faster these days that they might often miss this kind of love.

Don't miss out on sharing this book with a young girl. Any young girl! Give it to them before they are 17. Let them capture the freshness of young love - and they never have to get in the sack! Let them want their first kiss to be gentle, lovely and one worth remembering. Ahhhhh I spoiled it. Yes, he does finally kiss her! You will love this book.

When I read THE NOTEBOOK and A WALK TO REMEMBER by Nicolas Sparks, I thought of this book. Some people just know how to write about true love! All we have to do is read! Let me hear how you like it.

PS - 6 Years later - I just discovered Maureen Daly died in 2006. Sad never to have met her. She is worth reading about on Google - she left a son and he should be proud that her book is still being given to teenagers by grandmothers and mothers who felt the true love in Seventeenth Summer.

Maureen Daly did help shape my life. I am now 77. Terry Fenwick

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To read. . .and to pass on to your daughter. . ., June 18, 2002

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Melissa P. Cooper "kymissyin" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seventeenth Summer (Mass Market Paperback)

I discovered this book after reading an excerpt in one of those teenager-in-love anthologies that Scholastic books used to market in their catalogs. Like many others here, I re-read this one every summer, and have for close to three decades (yikes!) Angie and Jack were easy to relate to--she's a college-bound girl from a middle-class background, he was the star basketball player whose family owns the town bakery. Angie been something of an outsider in town, having attended a private girls-only prep school. Jack discovers her almost by accident one day when he blows the paper from his straw out of his booth at the drugstore, and looks over to see where it landed. From there, it's just a matter of time until they're a couple. There is nothing cliched about this book, even though it has many of the common elements we associate with teenagers in love. It's rounded out by scenes of Angie's family life and her plans for college even though she's falling deeper in love with Jack and he with her.

One caution: this book gets reprinted and re-released periodically with newer contemporary covers. You need to be aware that it is definitely not set in contemporary times, though. There are many references to society and mores of its setting--Wisconsin in the 30s--but the feel and experience of first love transcends everything. I think this one's a classic and a keeper. This is the only fiction book besides Gone with the Wind that I've kept from my own adolesence. Someday it will be my daughter's. On June 21, 2012, when she turns 17, this will be my gift to her.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It just gets sweeter with time!, May 19, 1999

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This review is from: Seventeenth Summer (Turtleback)

I've had this book since I was a teenager--though I read it as much to savor Maureen Daly's wonderful writing as to get swept away in Angie and Jack's story. It was my custom to re-read this every late June or early July, through good times and bad times, including a horrible first marriage. Maureen once said Angie and Jack were fictional characters--but she created them with such depth and detail that they helped give me hope that real love exists in real life. I haven't read this book in several years--mainly because I'm too busy with my wonderful husband (my REAL Mr. Right) and our beautiful daughter (who will be 4 on June 21--the first day of summer!). But I think it's time to re-introduce the tradition, and I will pass this on to my daughter when she's seventeen. Thank you, Angie. Thank you, Jack. But most of all, thank you, Maureen. . .wherever you are:)