The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love
β Scribed by Tash, Sarvenaz
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster; SIMON & SCHUSTER Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1481456547
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β¦ Synopsis
John Hughes meets Comic Con in this novel about a teenager who is trying to get his best friend to fall in love with him thatβs an βunabashed love letter and delightful inside joke for comic enthusiastsβ (Kirkus Reviews).Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy... Archie and Veronica... Althena and Noth... ...Graham and Roxy? Graham met his best friend, Roxana, when he moved into her neighborhood eight years ago, and she asked him which Hogwarts house heβd be sorted into. Graham has been in love with her ever since. But now theyβre sixteen, still neighbors, still best friends. And Graham and Roxy share more than everβmoving on from their Harry Potter obsession to a serious love of comic books. When Graham learns that the creator of their favorite comic, The Chronicles of Althena, is making a rare appearance at this yearβs New York Comic Con, he knows he must score tickets. And the event inspires Graham to come up with the perfect plan to tell Roxy how he really feels about her. Heβs got three days to woo his best friend at the coolest, kookiest con full of superheroes and supervillains. But no one at a comic book convention is who they appear to be...even Roxy. And Graham is starting to realize fictional love stories are way less complicated than real-life ones.
β¦ Subjects
Juvenile Fiction -- Comics & Graphic Novels -- General
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