Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in verse and dialogue.
Jude loves photography, and he’s good at it, too. Between his parents’ divorce and his anxiety, being behind a camera is the only time his mind is quiet.
Florence is confronting the premature end of her dance career as a degenerative eye disease begins to steal her balance. She’s having a hard time letting go.
The two meet at Sunrise Night, their sleepaway art camp’s dusk-to-dawn closing celebration, and decide to take a chance on each other. Their one rule: No contact for a year after the sun has risen. Over the course of three Sunrise Nights, will Florence and Jude find a deeper connection and learn who they are—and who they could be together?
“An ode to those magically elastic nights of summer, when anything and everything feels possible. A knockout!” — Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“If there were any doubts that the combined forces of Zentner and Cavallaro would knock our socks off, this gorgeous book lays them to rest.” — David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author
“Funny, lyrical, and utterly charming–Sunrise Nights is a whip-smart romantic stunner. I absolutely loved it.” — Jasmine Warga, New York Times bestselling author
“An emotional duet. Together, the voices gradually create their own source of ‘new light.’ Beautiful!” — Margarita Engle, Newbery Honor-winning author and Young People’s Poet Laureate Emeritus
“Coauthors Cavallaro (Manifest)and Zentner (In the Wild Light) employ spot-on banter to deliver a romance teeming with an ambiance of endless possibility on the precipice of devastating heartbreak. As the teens bond over their shared love and conviction for their craft, between them spins a love story that is truly suspenseful. The will-they-won’t-they plot, ferried along by the duo’s alternating perspectives, will have readers struggling between racing toward the ending and lingering over the luminous verse.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Will hook readers from the start. A smart, swoony, and witty romance.” — Kirkus Reviews