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Contributor(s): Sellet, Amanda (Author)
ISBN: 0358156610     ISBN-13: 9780358156611
Publisher: Clarion Books
OUR PRICE:   $16.19  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Romance - Romantic Comedy
- Young Adult Fiction | Romance - Contemporary
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2019020307
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (1.08 lbs) 384 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
In this clever YA rom-com debut perfect for fans of Kasie West and Ashley Poston, a teen obsessed with nineteenth-century literature tries to cull advice on life and love from her favorite classic heroines to disastrous results--especially when she falls for the school's resident Lothario.

Mary Porter-Malcolm has prepared for high school in the one way she knows how: an extensive review of classic literature to help navigate the friendships, romantic liaisons, and overall drama she has come to expect from such an "esteemed" institution. When some new friends seem in danger of falling for the same tricks employed since the days of Austen and Tolstoy, Mary swoops in to create the Scoundrel Survival Guide, using archetypes of literature's debonair bad boys to signal red flags. But despite her best efforts, she soon finds herself unable to listen to her own good advice and falling for a supposed cad--the same one she warned her friends away from. Without a convenient rain-swept moor to flee to, Mary is forced to admit that real life doesn't follow the same rules as fiction and that if she wants a happy ending, she's going to have to write it herself.


Contributor Bio(s): Sellet, Amanda: - Debut author Amanda Sellet had a previous career in journalism, during which she wrote book reviews for The Washington Post, personal essays for NPR, and music and movie coverage for VH1. She has an M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU and spent a year in England as au pair to an actress who has played in her share of period dramas. These days she lives in Kansas with her archaeologist husband and their daughter.