Truths I Learned from Sam

2016 SYRCA Snow Willow Award Shortlisted Its the best summer of Danis life, until the bottom falls out. Danis mother is getting married again because thats what she does, and while she and her new husband jet around Europe for six weeks, seventeen-year-old Dani is sent to stay with an uncle she didnt know she had in a small community in Cariboo country she didnt know existed. It promises to be the summer from hell. But Danis uncle turns out to be an okay guy. In fact, Dani really likes him. And she finds romance, too. Suddenly, a summer that had doom written all over it turns into one of the best times of Danis life. Until the bottom falls out. In a story about relationships and about how bad things happen to good people, Dani discovers that sometimes the only villain is life itself.