The Summer I Became Beautiful by Jenny Han... “Some summers are just meant to be beautiful. Billie measures her life by the number of summer months she lives. Everything beautiful, everything magical happens between June and August. And what is winter? Only time to count the weeks until next summer, in a place far from the beach, from Susanna's home, and most importantly, far from Jeremiah and Conrad, the two boys that Billy had known since the first summer she had lived. They were like her brothers, and two children for each of whom she had moved Once upon a time, but one summer, a wonderful and terrible summer, when everything changed, things ended the way they had always been.