But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it?Įmmie Blue is about to learn everything she thinks she knows about life (and love) is just that: what she thinks she knows. 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 from her job. 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 addressed, 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. In this charming and poignant novel, 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 now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she 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.

The reason you will love Dear Emmie Blue is because you’ve probably *lived* Dear Emmie Blue, in some small part of your own journey to adulthood.” - Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A delightful story about how the things we imagine to be best for us usually aren’t.

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