Kat's Greek Summer

<b>For fans of Jenna Evans Welch and Barbara Dee a timely and uplifting contemporary YA story of a young girl risking all for self-truth family and first love over one sun-drenched Greek summer.</b> <p/>Ready--set--look out world! Kat Baker is about to explode . . . onto the high school scene that is. All she has to do? Spend July and August training with New Canaan High's cross-country team become a running goddess and come fall claim her place as the team's star freshman runner. <p/>When her mom shocks her with the unwelcome news that the family will spend the summer exploring their roots in the rustic Greek village of Paralia Kat's sure her high school popularity plan is toast. Once in Paralia punishing heat and cultural clashes force her to launch a risky and covert training strategy to keep her running-star dreams alive. And it is during these hidden sessions that Kat is swept into late-night encounters with Theofilus Zafirakis a beautiful but off-limits Greek boy. <p/>As Kat's lies mount her secret odyssey spirals out of control finally putting one of her cousins in danger. In the end it takes the unexpected meddling of a village full of crazy wonderful--and not so wonderful--Greeks for her to open up to her Greek side and stand strong discovering at last that the key to belonging anywhere is belonging first to herself.