Chloe Crandall Adventure

Fifteen-year-old Manhattan teen Chloe Crandall is spending her summer in retro hell. Her history professor parents drag her along to a living history campground in North Dakota so they can relive the Era of the Fur Trader and the Mountain Man-even though Chloe doesn't wear fur and doesn't date mountain men. She's also disastrously inept at mastering frontier skills, and she flunks her ox-droving license test. An oversized, hatchet-wearing junior mountain man throwback wants her for his mountain mama, and rejecting him could be awkward since his sister, a girl blacksmith, is her one and only friend. All the other kids in the campground's Teen Activities Group dis and dismiss her as a gritless asphalt brat. Chloe's an unhappy camper until she meets Zach, a hot boy in buckskins with a matching horse. It's crush at first sight for Chloe, and she's determined to prove to Zach and his friends that city girls do have grit. Chick grit. But when disaster strikes the campground, will Chloe's chick grit be enough to save a child's life-and her own? 81,000 words EDITORIAL REVIEWS"Burrows employs a witty narrative voice and a unique setting that informs readers about the 1830s frontier and the world of avid historical reenactors...An often clever and tightly paced YA romp." -- Kirkus Reviews

Sixteen-year-old Chloe Crandall lands the role of a mail order bride in a TV reality show about modern Americans recreating a wagon train journey along the Santa Fe Trail. Chloe undertakes the grueling, 500-mile slog because her long-distance crush, Zach, will be waiting for her at the end of the trail. But first, she and her wagon full of teenage mail order brides must survive the torturous, pioneer-type elimination ordeals devised by the show's producers. Along the trail, Chloe finds her romantic life complicated by a good guy cowboy and a bad boy trail biker, who's following the wagon train for his own mysterious reasons. Reasons that Chloe is determined to find out. Although she's marked for reality show betrayal and death, Chloe has one slim chance to make it to the end of the trail--and Zach. If she can find the fortitude to take that chance...

CHLOE AFLOAT: Being the Adventures of Calico Clo, Buccanette of the Coast After surviving two retro-crazy summers out West, Manhattan teen Chloe Crandall wants to spend her seventeenth summer being Normal...until her sometime crush Shane recruits her for a lucrative but really abnormal summer job with his father's private security firm. She goes undercover in a college drama troupe that sails a tall ship along the New England coast, performing pirate-themed shows. Her mission: keep lead player Madison Dandridge away from drugs and a psycho ex-boyfriend. At sea, Chloe attracts a psycho of her own. Studly crewman Trevor Williams seems to have found out her secret phobia. He's using it to gaslight her, trying to drive her off the ship. She also suspects that Madison's psycho ex-boyfriend isn't really so ex and that Madison might be as psycho as he is. Worst of all, she's beginning to doubt Shane's motives for shipping her out to sea. Too late, she realizes she's sailing into dark waters and there's not a lighthouse in sight.