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    The Palmer Pool
    The Palmer Pool
    AnnaWestley
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      Time 7h 27m
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    • Reads
      Reads 73,170
      73,17073.1K
    • Votes
      Votes 7,560
      7,5607.5K
    • Parts
      Parts 36
      3636
    • Time
      Time 7h 27m
      7 hours, 27 minutes7h 27m
    AnnaWestley
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    Complete, First published Mar 28, 2021
    [Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past.
        
        ******
        
        On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions.  
        
        But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears.  When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing.  She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school.
        
        Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future.
        
        *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use*
        
        This story is complete at ~90,000 words.
        
        Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card
        Shortlisted Wattys 2021
        Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel
        Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance
        Featured on @TeenFiction
        Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023
        
        Cover by @eva3382
    All Rights Reserved
    • 1950s
    • fiction
    • historical
    • historicalfiction
    • lake
    • memory
    • michigan
    • midwest
    • nautical
    • nostalgia
    • retro
    • river
    • smalltowns
    • summer
    • summerlove
    • teenfiction
    • texttospeech
    • timetravel
    • wattys2021
    • wattys2022
    • ya
    • youngadult
    1950sfictionhistoricalhistoricalfictionlakememorymichiganmidwestnauticalnostalgiaretroriversmalltownssummersummerloveteenfictiontexttospeechtimetravelwattys2021wattys2022yayoungadult
    Table of contents
    • 1 | Takes You Back
      Fri, Apr 2, 2021
    • 2 | Broken Heels
      Fri, Apr 2, 2021
    • 3 | These Two Lanes
      Fri, Apr 2, 2021
    • 4 | What Goes Around
      Fri, Apr 2, 2021
    • 5 | Just Pretend
      Mon, Apr 5, 2021
    • 6 | Could Be Something
      Fri, Apr 9, 2021
    • 7 | Like a River
      Tue, Apr 20, 2021
    • 8 | Alive in My Head
      Tue, Apr 20, 2021
    • 9 | Every Thought
      Fri, Apr 23, 2021
    • 10 | I Still Stay
      Tue, Apr 27, 2021
    • 11 | Weary Head
      Fri, Apr 30, 2021
    • 12 | Walk Away
      Fri, Apr 30, 2021
    • 13 | Blue
      Sat, May 1, 2021
    • 14 | No Broken Record
      Mon, May 3, 2021
    • 15 | In Another Life
      Fri, May 7, 2021
    • 16 | Show Your Face
      Fri, May 7, 2021
    • 17 | Roll the Windows Down
      Mon, May 10, 2021
    • 18 | Holy Water
      Mon, May 10, 2021
    • 19 | Electrified
      Tue, May 11, 2021
    • 20 | All Dressed Up
      Fri, May 14, 2021
    • 21 | Burn
      Fri, May 14, 2021
    • 22 | In the Wind
      Fri, May 14, 2021
    • 23 | Fears
      Fri, May 14, 2021
    • 24 | Remember Me
      Fri, May 14, 2021
    • 25 | Sunk
      Fri, May 21, 2021
    • 26 | Scene
      Fri, May 21, 2021
    • 27 | Stranded
      Fri, May 21, 2021
    • 28 | Sweep Up
      Fri, May 21, 2021
    • 29 | Above the Flood
      Sat, May 22, 2021
    • 30 | You've Been Here Before
      Fri, May 28, 2021
    • 31 | The Summer Swells
      Fri, May 28, 2021
    • 32 | In My Roots
      Fri, May 28, 2021
    • 33 | Hunger
      Fri, May 28, 2021
    • 34 | Live Again
      Fri, May 28, 2021
    • 35 | History
      Fri, May 28, 2021
    • The Playlist
      Tue, May 16, 2023

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    [Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past.
        
        ******
        
        On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions.  
        
        But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears.  When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing.  She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school.
        
        Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future.
        
        *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use*
        
        This story is complete at ~90,000 words.
        
        Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card
        Shortlisted Wattys 2021
        Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel
        Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance
        Featured on @TeenFiction
        Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023
        
        Cover by @eva3382

    36 parts

    • 34 | Live Again
      Fri, May 28, 2021
    • 35 | History
      Fri, May 28, 2021
    • The Playlist
      Tue, May 16, 2023
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