It was the winner of the California Book Award (YA category) and was named to the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults List, selected for the Oklahoma Sequoya List, and selected as a School Library Journal Best Book. Her second novel, Second Chance Summer, was inspired by her experiences spending summers in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. It was named an ALA Top Ten Best Book, a Publisher’s Weekly Flying Start book, and was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Book Prize. Morgan’s first novel, Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour, was inspired byher love of road trips, snacks, and the quest for the perfect playlist.
Her novels have been translated into dozens of languages, and published all over the world. (for reasons that made sense at the time) in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. in Writing for Children from The New school and worked asan editor for YA novels. She attended Occidental College inLos Angeles, but halfway through a theater degree, she started working in the children’s department of Vroman’s Bookstore and fell in love with YA literature.įollowing college graduation (and the proud bearer ofan incredibly useful thea-ter/English degree) she received her M.F.A. Morgan Matson was born in New York City and grew up there and in Greenwich, Connecticut. And she’ll realize that sometimes, trying to keep everything like it was in the past means missing out on the future. Over the course of three ridiculously chaotic days, Charlie will learn more than she ever expected about the family she thought she knew by heart. And the wedding planner’s nephew is unexpectedly, distractingly…cute. Not to mention the neighbor who seems to be bent on sabotage and a storm that is bent on drenching everything.
There are the relatives who aren’t speaking, the (awful) girl her favorite brother brought home unannounced, and a missing tuxedo. There’s the unexpected dog with a penchant for howling, house alarm that won’t stop going off, and a papergirl with a grudge. The only problem? The weekend is shaping up to be an absolute disaster. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster-all that can wait. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend, before the house is sold and everything changes. Synopsis: Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait-for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Published: Jby Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers Title: Save the Date Written by: Morgan Matson
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