A long way from you - Gwendolyn Heasley

For too long, Kitsy has had to satisfy her dreams of becoming a real artist by giving her friends makeovers before prom. So when her best friend Corrinne's family offers to sponsor her for a summer art course in New York City, Kitsy bids a temporary good-bye to Texas to say hello to the West Village.

Between navigating the subway and the New Yorkersnamely, the Art Boy who has a nice trick of getting under her skinKitsy knows that this summer is going to be about alotmore than figure drawing.

Gwendolyn Heasley is a graduate of Davidson College and earned master's degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Gwendolyn lives in Naples, Florida, the setting ofDon't Call Me Baby, but still misses New York City. She is also the author of two other novels for teens,Where I BelongandA Long Way from You, and a digital original novella,The Art of Goodbye.