Lucas Moreau found the ballon on a beach in France, and immediately started a friendship with Emmie as they wrote to each other over the next 14 years. When Emmie Blue was sixteen years old, she released a balloon into the air with her name and email address in it. I just loved this heartwarming tale of a woman struggling to find herself and happiness after a tough upbringing. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it?įilled with heart and humor, Dear Emmie Blue “beautifully captures the heartache and frustrations of carrying our teenaged selves with us wherever we go” (Anstey Harris, author of Goodbye Paris) that is perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Evvie Drake Starts Over.ĭear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis is a charming tale of love, friendships, and growing up. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship-she’s given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached address, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens.
Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. But fourteen years later, everything Emmie has planned is up in the air.Īt sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. In this charming and poignant novel that “oozes charm and wit and speaks beautifully about friendship and love, and the differences between the two” (Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know ), teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it.
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