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    The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones
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    WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION
        
        In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. 
        
                                                                              ***** 
        
        After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world?
        
        [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!]
        
        [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]
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    Table of contents
    • Purchase The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones!
      Wed, Sep 16, 2020
    • Author's Note
      Thu, Jan 1, 2015
    • Playlist
      Thu, Jan 7, 2016
    • Epigraph
      Sat, Jan 3, 2015
    • Prologue
      Sat, Jan 3, 2015
    • Chapter One
      Mon, Jan 5, 2015
    • Chapter Two
      Mon, Jan 12, 2015
    • Chapter Three
      Sun, Jan 18, 2015
    • Chapter Four
      Mon, Jan 26, 2015
    • Chapter Five
      Mon, Feb 2, 2015
    • Chapter Six
      Mon, Feb 9, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Seven
      Mon, Feb 16, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Eight
      Mon, Feb 23, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Nine
      Sat, Mar 7, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Ten
      Sun, Mar 8, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Eleven
      Sun, Mar 15, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Twelve
      Fri, Mar 20, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Thirteen
      Sun, Mar 22, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Fourteen
      Sun, Mar 29, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Fifteen
      Sun, Apr 26, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Sixteen
      Sun, Jun 14, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Seventeen
      Sat, Jul 4, 2015Locked
    • Chapter Eighteen
      Sat, Jan 2, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Nineteen
      Sat, Jan 9, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty
      Sun, Jan 10, 2016Locked
    • Epilogue
      Fri, Jan 15, 2016Locked
    • Q&A
      Fri, Jan 22, 2016

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    WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION
        
        In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. 
        
                                                                              ***** 
        
        After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world?
        
        [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!]
        
        [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

    27 parts

    • Chapter Twenty
      Sun, Jan 10, 2016Locked
    • Epilogue
      Fri, Jan 15, 2016Locked
    • Q&A
      Fri, Jan 22, 2016
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