<p>Teenager Pam Ackerman is looking forward to the promising life she sees before her. She loves her hometown and parents, and her father&rsquo;s career as an attorney has set the family up with a comfortable life of opportunity.</p><p>Then the unthinkable happens: her father abandons the family. While her mother scrambles to earn a living, Pam is sent to a tiny Tennessee town for the summer. Heartbroken and feeling uncertain in her new environment, Pam doesn&rsquo;t know how she&rsquo;ll survive till fall to see her mother and friends again.</p><p>And then the miraculous happens: she falls in love. In <em>Obion Summer</em>&rsquo;s more innocent time of the 1980s, before the ease of communication associated with social media and cell phones, Pam must find a way to balance love of home with romantic love.</p><p>Stephen Manley has crafted a love story of more than one kind&mdash;one to home, one to romance, and one to the charm and beauty of small-town northwest Tennessee. <em>Obion Summer</em> is both a heart-wrenching and a sweet novel for preteen and teen readers.</p>