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Nina Moreno

To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets Since You've Been Gone in this effervescent romance about childhood best friends reconnecting, full of sunny days, warm nights, first kisses, and mended hearts. Lou Patterson and Sam Alvarez were inseparable--the best of friends--until the most embarrassing middle school promposal ever. Now, four years later, Lou is an introverted romantic who's bearing the weight of her mother's expectations. Meanwhile, Sam is the golden boy with plenty of friends who's still mourning the death of his father. When Lou finds the bucket list she and Sam wrote together as kids, she's disappointed to see that she hasn't accomplished a single one of her goals. Go to a party? Nope. Pull the greatest prank of all time? Still no. Learn how to be a really good kisser? Definitely not. Lou sets out to finish the list, and in a stroke of fate, Sam decides to tag along, stirring up old arguments and some very new feelings. But with the bucket list to guide them, Sam and Lou might just be able to find a way toward the future and each other.

Coming Of Age

Teen Romance

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Author

Nina Moreno

Pages

368

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published Date

2021

ISBN

0759557470 9780759557475

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"Just a quick and fun read,definitely perfect for the Warner weather about to come!"

Jonathan Kent

"4/5 🌟💘🌞 Going into this book, I did not know that it was a stand-alone in this beautiful world of Port Coral, but man did Moreno take me for a trip. I picked this up in a local bookstore because it was under the “local authors” section and we love to support local authors! I also was intrigued by every plot idea and could see how it would play out in my head. I’ve read a fair amount of YA novels about teens coming to terms with plans are school, whether it’s college or not. I think anyone reading who is graduating soon or has graduated can testify to the fact that growing up is scary and vulnerable at times. Moreno unpacked this is such a beautiful and tangible way. Yes, it’s fantastical and unrealistic at times, because guess what?! It’s a book! Sometimes the point of all this is to get a quick “escape” and experience someone else’s emotions and feeling for yourself. I’m enjoying reading books with Hispanic roots, loving to understand and learn about my own. This story was fun and heartwarming, hitting those deep spots when you allowed it to. You gotta go into stories like these with an open heart, right?! Pinterest board for inspiration https://pin.it/3B5ShQI"

Victoria

"this book was kinda mid. i think it was cute but the story dragged on forever and there weren’t any plot twists or anything . it was way to long and slow moving"

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hope s

"Still reading this one "