The Summer I Turned Pretty is a trilogy of young adult romance novels written by Asian-American author Jenny Han and published by Simon & Schuster. The series includes The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009), It's Not Summer Without You (2010), and We'll Always Have Summer (2011). The novels follow Isabel "Belly" Conklin in the summers she spends at Cousins Beach with her mother, her best friend (Taylor), and older brother (Steven), along with her mother's lifelong best friend and her sons. The books in the series were national best sellers; the final installment spent more than a month on The New York Times Best Seller list. A television series based on the novels of the trilogy premiered on Amazon Prime Video on June 17, 2022. A movie based on the novels is currently in the works.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy was adapted into a 2022 television series.
The Summer I Turned Pretty2022 · television series · IMDb ↗IMDb7.3Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.
