Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

A summer romance headed for heartbreak turns into a mother-daughter road trip in the name of true love in this story of love, loss, and redemption from Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.

It is summer in the northwest town of Nine Mile Falls, and Ruby McQueen--ordinarily dubbed The Quiet Girl--finds herself hanging out with gorgeous, rich, thrill-seeking Travis Becker. With Travis, Ruby can be someone she's never been before: Fearless. Powerful. But Ruby is in over her head, risking more and more when she's with him.

In an effort to keep Ruby occupied and mend her own broken heart, her mother, Ann, drags Ruby to the weekly book club she runs for seniors. At first, Ruby can't imagine a more boring way to spend an afternoon, but she is soon charmed by the women she's spending time with. And when the group discovers one of their own members is the subject of the tragic love story they are reading, Ann and Ruby ditch their respective obsessions to spearhead a reunion between the long-ago lovers. They're in search of a happy ending...but for who?

This lyrical, multigenerational story of love, loss, and redemption speaks to everyone who has ever been in love--and lived to tell the tale.

Author: Deb Caletti
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781416957836
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 79095 / Honey, Baby, Sweetheart


Award: Washington State Book Award - Winner

About the Author
Deb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over sixteen books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award; A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Girl, Unframed; and One Great Lie. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.