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Disneylanders
Disneylanders
Disneylanders
Casey (short for Acacia, but don’t call her that) is spending a few summer days with her parents at Disneyland. Just like they do every summer. Except this summer is different. Casey’s best friend has dumped her. She starts high school in the fall, and she’s tired of following her parents’ rigid schedule and putting up with their embarrassing behavior. She’s miserable. Even Disneyland can’t make her happy. Then, standing in line for the Indiana Jones Adventure, she bumps into Bert. A year older. Tall. Brown eyes. Nice. But Bert’s parents are mysteriously absent. And he wears an old, broken Mickey Mouse watch. Bert has secrets. When Casey ditches her parents to run off with Bert, those secrets are revealed in the darkness of a Haunted Mansion Doom Buggy, aboard a rocket ship hurtling through Space Mountain, and in the cramped confines of a Matterhorn bobsled. Is Bert really as cool as he seems? Could he become Casey’s first…boyfriend? To make matters worse, Casey must also fight off her parents’ attempts to ruin her relationship with Bert and fend off a pack of selfish, rowdy girls—the “Bra Strap Girls”—who seem intent on sabotaging her vacation and stealing Bert. Casey can’t stay in Disneyland forever. When she leaves, with or without Bert, she’ll have left behind her childhood and learned some important lessons about what it means to grow up.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up

Once again, Acacia “Casey” and her parents are spending their annual summer vacation at Disneyland. Except this time it is a lot different. Casey usually brings her now ex best friend, Kiley. But Kiley has transformed into a completely different girl overnight, who is mean, rude, immature, and not the previous best friend whom Casey longs to share her vacation with. Casey is a sentimental and slightly awkward girl, with many an obscure Disney fact hidden inside her mind.

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In Disneylanders, Casey is going on her family's yearly trip to Disneyland, but this year is different. They usually go with her ex-best friend Kiley, but due to a fight between the girls, she is not going. Casey is tired of her family and friends seeing her as a little kid. The trip isn't going as magical as the last trip, but everything changes when she meets a boy her age named Bert.
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In Disneylanders by Bob Mclain and Kate Abbott, a teenage girl, Casey, and her family go on their yearly trip to Disneyland, which is the only place she finds familiarity… but this time, things have changed. Her best friend Kiley is no longer going with them due to a fight, Casey is tired of being seen as a little kid, and her parents aren’t listening to her. The trip isn’t as fun and magical as it usually is, but the tables turn when she meets Bert, a boy around her age.

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Disneylanders, by Bob McLain and Kate Abbott, follows 14-year-old Casey's annual summer trip to Disneyland with her family. But this summer is different than the others. Casey’s nervous to start high school next fall, is tired of trailing her embarrassing parents around Disneyland, and her (now ex) best friend Kiley isn’t coming with them like usual. Casey’s miserable, despite being in the “Happiest Place on Earth.” That is, until she meets Bert waiting in line for a ride, a boy a year older than her and with problems of his own.

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In Disneylanders, Acacia "Casey" Allison is about to start highschool. She and her family always go on an annual Disneyland summer vacation trip with her best friend. Yet, things are already different during this vacation, since Casey's ex-best friend isn't coming. After losing her best friend, Casey suspects this will be the worst summer ever, until she meets the cute boy at the park. Could this mysterious boy make her summer worth the while? Or is this the end of Casey's perfect summer vacations?

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