Was T.I.M. an acronym for Terrible Infuriating Monster? Sunny was convinced that it was. Every summer of her sixteen years Tim and his rich snobbish parents returned to Sea's Edge to make her life miserable. Now he was here again! It was bad enough to have to work afternoons and evenings when everyone else was at the beach and dating. It was worse yet not to have a cute boy to hang out with, but to have Tim back again was the last straw - especially now that he had grown up to be tall, husky, and totally adorable.
Author
Caroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. I started writing then and never stopped!" When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people—with remarkable results. She began to sell stories to Seventeen magazine and soon after began writing books. Suspense novels are her favorites to read and write. "In a suspense novel, you can count on action." To keep her stories realistic, Caroline visits many schools outside of her area, learning more about teenagers all the time. She often organizes what she calls a "plotting game," in which students work together to create plots for stories. Caroline lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and when she's not writing she volunteers at a hospital, plays piano for the school musicals and daydreams!
- Scholastic.com
