 |
Nancy Keane's | Booktalks -- Quick and Simple | |
|
|||||||
 |
Goo, Maurene. I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. IL YA ISBN 9780374304041 |
|
|
High school senior Desi Lee is successful: she is top of her class, a star soccer player, president of several organizations, and looking to get into her choice school, Stanford. The one area of life that the organized and detail-oriented Desi has not been able to succeed in is love. Each time she has a crush, she has an embarrassing knack for turning any encounter into an awkward situation… something her friends affectionately refer to as a “flailure,” or a flirting failure. But when new student Luca comes to school, she’s determined to make him fall in love with her. After spending a weekend watching Korean dramas with her father, Desi is armed with a 24-step plan to make Luca love her. What follows is a hilarious adherence to the rules, no matter the risk, that will have you rooting for Desi, her widowed father, her friends, and the elusive Luca, to all believe in a thing called love. (Prepared by: Allison Hall, Newberry High School, ahall@newberry.k12.sc.us for South Carolina Book Award) |
| SUBJECTS: Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction Love -- Fiction High schools -- Fiction Schools -- Fiction Korean Americans -- Fiction |
|
|
Except
where otherwise noted, content on this site is 