She Loves You, She Loves You Not...A novel about coming out, finding love, and discovering your place in the world from National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters. Seventeen-year-old Alyssa thought she knew who she was. She had her family and her best friends and, most important, she had Sarah. Sarah, her girlfriend, with whom she dreamed with about the day they could move far away and live out and proud and accepted for themselves, instead of having to hide their relationship. Alyssa never thought she would have to make that move by herself, but disowned by her father and cut off from everyone she loves, she is forced to move hundreds of miles away to live with Carly, the biological mother she barely knows, in a town where everyone immediately dismisses her as "Carly's girl." As Alyssa struggles to forget her past and come to terms with her future, will she be able to build a new life for herself and believe in love again? Or will she be forced to relive the mistakes that have cost her everything and everyone she cared about? Told in Peters's thoughtful, compelling prose, Alyssa's story will speak to anyone who has known the joy and pain of first love and the struggle to start over again. |
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... hear the front door open. Quickly, I stuff the kimono back in the closet and slither out of Carly's room. “Alyssa. You're up,” she says as I casually saunter down the stairs from the loft. Does she think I sleep all day? She sets her ...
... hear the front door open. Quickly, I stuff the kimono back in the closet and slither out of Carly's room. “Alyssa. You're up,” she says as I casually saunter down the stairs from the loft. Does she think I sleep all day? She sets her ...
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... hear her. I don't mean home. Her home. Usually I sleep so hard my stepmom, Tanith, has to shake me awake, or my little brother, Paulie, jumps on me. I can't sleep here. Even when I was a baby, Dad said I'd fall into this deep sleep that ...
... hear her. I don't mean home. Her home. Usually I sleep so hard my stepmom, Tanith, has to shake me awake, or my little brother, Paulie, jumps on me. I can't sleep here. Even when I was a baby, Dad said I'd fall into this deep sleep that ...
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... hear Carly in her exercise room, laughing with someone. I walk to the foyer and peek my head around the corner. “Are you Alyssa? Oh my God!” This crazy lady tears up the stairs from the exercise room and crushes me in a hug. I almost ...
... hear Carly in her exercise room, laughing with someone. I walk to the foyer and peek my head around the corner. “Are you Alyssa? Oh my God!” This crazy lady tears up the stairs from the exercise room and crushes me in a hug. I almost ...
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