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Girl at Sea (2007) (edit title/settings)

by Maureen Johnson (Author) (edit contributors)

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Sometimes you have to get lost. The Girl: Clio, seventeen, wants to spend the summer smooching her art-store crush, not stuck on a boat in the Mediterranean. At least she'll get a killer tan. The Mission: Survive her father's annoying antics. Oh, also find some underwater treasure that... read more

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This is the summer Clio has waited for her whole life. School is out. She’s gotten a great job. And she’s just met the guy of her dreams. Things could not be better.
It’s about time something remotely normal happened to her. Named after the muse of history, quasi-famous at eleven for... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

This is the summer Clio has waited for her whole life. School is out. She’s gotten a great job. And she’s just met the guy of her dreams. Things could not be better.
It’s about time something remotely normal happened to her. Named after the muse of history, quasi-famous at eleven for making a board game with her father, touring the world in questionable style at twelve . . . it’s been an odd journey so far. Some of it sounds good on paper. Lots of things sound good on paper. It doesn’t mean they actually are.

Now, at seventeen, her family is broken up and the money is gone. Her father, once her closest companion, has become a weirdo. Clio often doesn’t even know where he’s living. So, she’s not happy when he reappears to smash her plans for a perfect summer. She ends up with a one-way ticket to Italy to meet him. All he’ll tell her about the plans for the next ten weeks is that there is a boat involved.

It doesn’t help when she arrives in Naples to find that he is even stranger than normal. He’s managed to buy a secondhand yacht, which is stuffed to the roof with high-tech equipment. Also, he’s not alone. There’s an archeologist (whom he appears to be dating), the archeologist’s bouncy Swedish-English daughter, her father’s best friend, and a handsome but ever-so-punchable Yale student named Aidan who handles all the tech toys. These are her new summer companions.

It soon becomes clear that this isn’t just a boat ride. Something is going on on this boat, some kind of search or mission. No one will tell her what it is. But it’s not like Clio to just let things lie.

Before it’s all over, Clio will have to deal with her past, swim for her life, share a bed, get a job, break a heart, find a crème brulee torch, grapple with the mystery of the pyramids, wear a paper hat, and go right to the bottom of the ocean to end a hundred-year old quest.

Also, there are jellyfish.

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  • Clio: Main character, a seventeen-year-old girl who's spending her summer in Italy on a ship. She is an artist who lives in Philadelphia.
  • Ben: Clio's father who left her and her mother years ago. He is good-looking for his age but still acts impulsively at times.
  • Aidan: Julia's assistant who lives with Clio and co. on the boat. He is the only person on the boat with Internet access. He is an engineer who went to Yale and Cambridge.
  • Elsa: Julia's daughter. Clio thought she was a "cheese goddess" when they first met. She is having trouble getting over a breakup. She is Swedish and English.
  • Martin: Ben's longtime best friend
  • Julia: Elsa's mom and Ben's girlfriend. She is looking for Marguerite's Rock.
  • Ollie: Clio's crush from the art store. He is tall and wears "ironic" ties and striped pants.
  • Jackson: Clio's best friend from back home. An expert "judger of kisses."
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First Sentence edit see section history

"Lightning flashed over Big Ben, and a bruise-like darkness draped over the dome of St. Paul's."

Table of Contents edit see section history

London, May 1897
The Secret That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Where There Is a Balloon, There Is Always a Pin
Moments and Omens
Your Kind of Crowd
Dangerous Contraptions
Mental Scarring and Jokes That Aren't Funny
The Sea Butterfly
The Sea Rules
The Champagne Suite
London, November 1897
At Sea
Kidnapped
Confinement, Not Solitary
The Snoop
Rules and Transgressions
The Escape
A Brief History of Floridian Girl-Lifting
Eurotrash Springs Eternal
Kill It If It Moves
The SS "Bell Star" May 1897
Rescue
The Venom
Oyster Girl
Choices
Temptations and Voices
A Kind of Truth
A General Malfunction
The Exchange
The Date
Do Not Push the Shiny Orange Button
Mistaken Identity
Impulsive Decisions
The Diver
The Stone
Prisoners
The Great Beyond
The Truth
Kos, Greece, March 1905
The Worst Summer of My Life

Errata edit see section history

On page 69, it says "...not that there was a lot you could do once it happpened." Happpened should be happened.

On page 190, it says "...It fact, it was slightly more snarky and arrogant." It should be in.

On page 221, it says, "Cleo was in the middle of considering these questions and reheating the strew for lunch..." Strew should be stew.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Maureen Johnson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 336

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