
Tung is a graduate of New York's famous LaGuardia High School and is currently studying at Carnegie Mellon. Now that her longtime crush, Conrad Fisher, is paying attention to her, she's adjusting to the sudden attention.

"The lead of the series, Belly used to be gawky and awkward, but this summer she turns 16 and she is starting to turn heads-and it's taking some getting used to," Amazon shared in a press release. The sequel, It's Not Summer Without You, arrived in 2011, and the third book, We'll Always Have Summer, was published in 2012.Īmazon has announced the first members of the cast. The Summer I Turned Pretty was first published in 2009. "It is a coming-of-age story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer," Deadline reported. The "multigenerational drama" is also expected to highlight the relationship between mothers and their children and female friendships. The Summer I Turned Pretty follows Isabel "Belly" Conklin, a girl caught in a love triangle between two brothers, but the focus isn't solely on young romance. For those newly discovering the Summer series, I hope you fall in love with these characters and this place that is so dear to my heart." For the longtime book fans, I think it will have been worth the wait. There's no official date yet for the eight-episode series, but Han said in a statement, " The Summer I Turned Pretty is many years in the making, and I’m so excited to tell Belly’s story in 2021. The author's YA novel The Summer I Turned Pretty is being adapted into a series for Amazon, Variety reported. Jenny Han's To All the Boys trilogy might have come to a close on Netflix, but another one of her books will soon get the screen treatment.
