SuitabookRomantic expectations and reality
Evangeline pursues a spectacular, life-changing kiss after becoming absorbed in a romance novel and a self-help book.
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Wendelin Van Draanen - Author
This is a story about romantic expectations meeting awkward reality. Its central situation combines kissing, friendship, reputation and the influence of romance narratives, with embarrassment and social complications along the way.
EVANGELINE LOGAN WANTS a kiss. A spectacular, heart-stopping, life changing kiss. Somehow The Crimson Kiss (a romance novel she's become obsessed with) and Four Steps to Living Your Fantasy (a self-help book she's reading) have fused in Evangeline's mind and sent her on a quest for a kiss. But the path to perfection is paved with many bad kisses--the smash mouth, the ear licker, the "misser." The phrase "I don't kiss and tell" means nothing to the boys in her school. And worse: someone starts writing her name and number on bathroom walls. And worst of all: the boy she's just kissed turns out to be her best friend's new crush. Kissing turns out to be way more complicated than the romance novels would have you believe . . .From the Hardcover edition.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a story about romantic expectations meeting awkward reality. Its central situation combines kissing, friendship, reputation and the influence of romance narratives, with embarrassment and social complications along the way.
Evangeline pursues a spectacular, life-changing kiss after becoming absorbed in a romance novel and a self-help book.
Someone writes Evangeline’s name and number on bathroom walls, turning a personal matter into a public one.
The boy Evangeline has just kissed turns out to be her best friend’s new crush.
Pay attention to Evangeline’s experiences of privacy and friendship as the kissing quest develops. The bathroom-wall incident and the best friend’s crush may merit a check-in about embarrassment and social pressure.
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