Basically all I did in junior high was text, straighten my hair, add to my Benedict Cumberbatch shrine, and worry about how to be more popular. Thinking about it makes me cringe.
I want to be different in high school. Like a new person.
And I want to make out with someone. Its so humiliating that Im a kissing virgin at this advanced age. The longer I go un-smooched, the more freakish I feel. If I graduate high school without being kissed, Ill be too embarrassed to kiss anyone during college, and then Ill most likely die without ever even getting to second base. Something has to change fast. This I vow: I will kiss a guy before New Years Eve. (Or maybe itll happen ON New Years Eve?)OK, this I vow: I will kiss a guy before New Years Day. Vow TAKEN. Fourteen-year-old Chloe Snow is about to start ninth grade when her brilliant, beautiful, artistic mum announces she can't create great art in suburban Massachusetts, and goes to Mexico to work on her novel. Bewildered at being left behind with only her (socially awkward) dad as company, Chloe throws herself into a series of new pursuits, including auditioning for the school a cappella group, making new friends, and landing the lead in the school musical. In the course of these adventures, she attracts the attention of Mac Brody, the cuter half of THE Senior Couple, and Bernadette Sanz, the schools Meanest Senior Girl. And then things begin to go pretty seriously wrong.
Can Chloe recover from a giganticmess of her own creation? And will her mum's Eat, Pray, Love-fest EVER end?
Told in 365 diary entries, one for each day of the most seminal year of Chloes life so far, this laugh-out-loudnovel is peppered with texts, lists, emailsand tweets, making it a modern take on the classic teen coming-of-age story. [This book description comes from a different edition of this title. Please report any inaccuracies].
This book is part of a book series called Chloe Snows Diary .
There are 368 pages in this book.
It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.
This book was published in 2017 by Simon & Schuster Ltd .
Emma Chastain is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.