Review: Those Summer Nights
Those Summer Nights by Laura Silverman Margaret K. McElderry Books (imprint of Simon & Schuster), 2022 Category: Young Adult Reviewer: Sarah Blattner Buy at Bookshop.org It’s the summer before her senior year, and Hannah Klein has just returned from a year at Mountain Bliss Academy, a boarding school in the north Georgia mountains for troubled teens. Last summer Hannah lost everything that mattered to her: the ability to play soccer due to an injury, her bubbie to cancer, her best friend Brie Bradley, and her parents’ trust. Hannah turned to self-destructive behaviors: she took partying too far one night and almost got behind the wheel of her car while intoxicated. Her bestie Brie took her keys, drove her home, and notified Hannah’s parents. But now Hannah is back in Atlanta, and she must prove herself to her family, her friends, and most of all, to herself. A main theme in the novel is taking ownership for your actions by repairing harm. While working with her brother Joey at Bona