The Girl who Invented Romance

Caroline B. Cooney

Delacorte Press, 2005 - Love - 182 pages

How can a girl have fun with a game if she's only watching from the sidelines? That's what sixteen-year-old Kelly Williams wonders when her best friend, Faith, complains that it's time to stop pretending and find real romance. As Kelly sees her friends, her older brother and even her parents knowingly and unknowingly play at romance, she decides to create a real game - a board game called Romance that captures the way people behave in matters of love and dating.
From broken hearts to happily ever after, Caroline Cooney's inventive novel is sure to capture readers' hearts.

"From the Trade Paperback edition.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 22
• Section 3: 40

About the author

Caroline Cooney was born in 1947 in Geneva, New York. She studied music, art, and English at various colleges, but never graduated. She began writing while in college. Her young adult books include The Face on the Milk Carton, Whatever Happened to Janie?, The Voice on the Radio, What Janie Found, No Such Person, and the Cheerleaders Series. She received an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults for Driver's Ed and an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers for Twenty Pageants Later. Two of her titles, The Rear View Mirror and The Face on the Milk Cartoon, were made into television movies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Girl who Invented Romance
• Author: Caroline B. Cooney
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Delacorte Press, 2005
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Jun 11, 2010
• ISBN: 038590259X, 9780385902595
• Length: 182 pages