By the book: a novel of prose and cons
โ Scribed by Amanda Sellet
- Publisher
- HMH Books for Young Readers; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 396 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Boston
- ISBN
- 0358156645
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In this clever YA rom-com debut perfect for fans of Kasie West and Ashley Poston, a teen obsessed with nineteenth-century literature tries to cull advice on life and love from her favorite classic heroines to disastrous results--especially when she falls for the school's resident Lothario.
Mary Porter-Malcolm has prepared for high school in the one way she knows how: an extensive review of classic literature to help navigate the friendships, romantic liaisons, and overall drama she has come to expect from such an "esteemed" institution. When some new friends seem in danger of falling for the same tricks employed since the days of Austen and Tolstoy, Mary swoops in to create the Scoundrel Survival Guide, using archetypes of literature's debonair bad boys to signal red flags. But despite her best efforts, she soon finds herself unable to listen to her own good advice and falling for a supposed cad--the same one she warned her friends away from. Without a...
โฆ Subjects
Teen
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