Chasing the Moon
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Two best friends. One tiny tent. An attraction that's impossible to ignore.
Melody
Being a semi-famous science tokker epically rocks because I get to make science accessible for girls. Until I make a mistake and a jerkface tokker ridicules me to his fans. I need to prove I'm not a hack before my followers bail and I ruin my credibility?all before I graduate from high school.
Just one problem: my family's hiking to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where I won't have signal for a week. Oh, and I'm sharing a tent with the Bestie Brigade?my two best friends?and I've crushed on one of them for longer than trends last on TikTok.
Dating Steph would make Jess feel left out and I vowed I'd never do that to her again. Do I risk hurting my closest friend for a chance at love?
Stephanie
Senior year was rolling along just great until my parents announced they're getting divorced the same night I broke up with my girlfriend.
Spending a week offline in the Grand Canyon to watch the lunar eclipse with Jess and Mel is the perfect way to pretend my life isn't falling apart. Except we're camping with people who insist on talking through EVERY FREAKING PROBLEM around the campfire.
And I'm not ready to share.
The time away with Mel makes our connection even stronger, but I'm scared whatever she's hiding could change our friendship forever.
Book 3 in the Campfire Series is filled with grand adventures, secret kisses, and an epic eclipse you won't soon forget.
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Multi-award winning young adult author Melanie Hooyenga writes books about strong girls who learn to navigate life despite its challenges. She first started writing as a teenager and finds she still relates best to that age group.
Her award-winning YA sports romance series, The Rules Series, is about girls from Colorado falling in love and learning to stand up on their own. Her YA time travel trilogy, The Flicker Effect, is about a teen who uses sunlight to travel back to yesterday. The first book, Flicker, won first place for Middle Grade/Young Adult in the Writer's Digest 2015 Self-Published eBook awards, and The Rules Series has won ten awards, including Finalist for MG/YA in the 2019 BookLife Prize. The first book in her new series, Chasing the Sun, won gold for young adult general fiction in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards and was named one of the Best Indie eBooks of 2020 by Barnes & Noble Press.
When not writing books, you can find her wrangling her Miniature Schnauzer Gus and playing every sport imaginable with her husband Jeremy.
