“You kissed him,” she said. Zinnie bit her lip and looked away. “I knew it!”
“How did you know?” Lily asked.
“It’s written all over Zinnie’s face,” Marigold said. “You might as well be wearing a neon sign.”
“Really?” Zinnie asked. Marigold nodded. Zinnie pressed her fingers to her cheeks. They were burning up.
“Are you going to write about it in your blog?” Marigold asked.
“Nope,” Zinnie said, and linked her arms in her sisters’. “I’m going to keep this to myself.”
“Except that you told us!” Lily said.
“Yeah, but you’re my sisters,” Zinnie said.
“So?” Lily asked.
“So she trusts us,” Marigold said.
“Exactly,” Zinnie said, and pulled them both a little closer to her. It was true. She did trust them, with her heart and her secrets. For a moment she could feel the earth under her feet, holding her up as though she had roots, and the sky above her, beckoning her to look up, up, up. She inhaled the summer air and felt so much a part of this family, a part of this world.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to my brilliant editor, Alexandra Cooper. Working on these books with you has been an incredible honor and joy. As always, I thank my agent and friend, Sara Crowe, for everything. And many thanks, as well, to the amazing Alyssa Miele, who is endlessly helpful and full of great ideas. Thank you to Ji-Hyuk Kim for the gorgeous artwork, and to everyone at HarperCollins who helped make this dream come true. I am truly indebted to fellow writers Kayla Cagan and Vanessa Napolitano, my LA sisters and friends to the end. Thank you to my family, especially Henry, who I’m pretty certain hung the moon.
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LEILA HOWLAND was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Georgetown University, Leila spent five years acting in New York, where she was a company member of the award-winning Flea Theater in Tribeca. The Silver Moon of Summer is the third book in her middle grade series about the Silver sisters. She has also written two YA novels: Nantucket Blue, for which she was named a Publishers Weekly “Flying Start,” and Nantucket Red. Leila now lives in Los Angeles with her family. Visit her online at www.leilahowland.com.
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