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290 pp.
| Dutton
| September, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-0-525-42601-1$17.99
(4)
YA
Nebraska transplant and high-school senior Makani Young is still haunted by her past in Hawaii. A series of student murders, however, soon brings her secret to the foreground as the mysterious killer ultimately targets her, too. Perkins's characters are engaging and the suspense is riveting, but gratuitous slasher-gore overwhelms the story.
343 pp.
| Dutton
| August, 2014
|
TradeISBN 978-0-525-42563-2$17.99
(3)
YA
In this companion to Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door, set at the School of America in Paris, post-wisdom-teeth painkillers give Isla the courage to talk to Josh, and they fall in love in fast-and-furious fashion. Readers will sympathize with Isla through the delicious moments and heartbreaking insecurities of this tender new relationship.
343 pp.
| Dutton
| September, 2011
|
TradeISBN 978-0-525-42328-7$16.99
(3)
YA
Seventeen-year-old Lola, an aspiring costume designer living with her two dads in San Francisco, struggles to define who she is under all her glittery get-ups. She also wants parental approval of her twenty-two-year-old rocker boyfriend--until former boy-next-door Cricket moves back to the neighborhood, laying claim to her heart. Well-developed characters and lively dialogue characterize this sassy romance.
375 pp.
| Dutton
| December, 2010
|
TradeISBN 978-0-525-42327-0$16.99
(4)
YA
Shipped off to boarding school in Paris for her senior year, seventeen-year-old Anna falls for fellow student Étienne St. Clair, an American raised in England who speaks perfect French. The ensuing months are full of romantic near-misses and miscommunications. Dialogue-heavy exposition keeps things going in this breezy teen hook-up story with--bien sûr!--a happy ending.