Alternately heartwarming and hilarious." - Booklist "The book's affectionately satirical take on our twelve-year-old heroines and their approaches to life is funny, and the epistolary format is an engaging way into the girls' personalities and defenses." - BCCB "While Bett and Avery's non-stop comical high jinks prove entertaining, the girls symbolize a broader definition of family and experience real struggles. Featuring a dramatic climax and a host of surprising twists, the novel affirms that families conventional and unconventional are families just the same." - Publishers Weekly "Even if the target readership eschews email these days, they'll be hard-pressed not to be laughing out loud at the witty, clever email and letter repartee among the girls, their dads, and the rest of the supporting cast. An imaginative and compelling middle-grade novel depicting modern friendships and modern families." - School Library Journal, starred review "A sweet and amusing tale that celebrates diversity while reinforcing the power of love and the importance of family." - Kirkus "Written entirely in emails and letters, this laugh-out-loud novel showcases the collaborative skills of bestselling authors Sloan ( Short ) and Wolitzer ( Bellzhar ). Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends-and possibly, one day, even sisters.īut things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted.Acclaim for To Night Owl from Dogfish A New York Time Editor's Choice A Junior Library Guild 2019 Selection An Amazon best book of the month for February 2019 #3 on the Indie Next list for spring 2019 for Independent Booksellers A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Children's Book of 2019 "Built on a foundation of absurdity, coincidence and the occasional rather good one-liner, the novel manages the difficult balancing act of using increasingly ridiculous, and often funny, situations to drill home the idea that every close relationship takes hard work, particularly when things start going south." - New York Times * "This is a convincing and heartwarming look into the experiences of female friendship. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.Īvery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City.
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