South Beach is a young adult novel by American

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Author

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 Aimee Friedman

Aimee Friedman

Aimee Friedman is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc., and S&S. Her novels South Beach , French Kiss , and Hollywood Hills and also The Year My Sister Got Lucky focus on the scandalous adventures of on-again, off-again best friends Holly Jacobson and Alexa St....

. It is a New York Times bestseller. The plot concerns two 16-year-old girls from New Jersey

New Jersey

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: Holly Jacobson, a sporty, reserved young girl, and Alexandria 'Alexa' St Laurent, a popular aspiring photographer with a wild side. The two former best friends take a trip to South Beach

South Beach

South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is the area south of Indian Creek and encompasses roughly the southernmost 23 blocks of the main barrier island that separates the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay.This area was the first...

 in Florida for their spring break

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, and find out that, occasionally, opposites attract.

South Beach was described as a light piece of teen chick-lit by the School Library Journal

School Library Journal

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