For seventeen-year-old Maya, the equation for happiness is simple: a dream internship at MIT two new science nerd friends a perfect boyfriend = one amazing summer. Then Whit dumps her out of the blue. Maya is miserable until she discovers that her scientist mother, before she died, was conducting research on manipulating pheromones to enhance human attraction. If Maya can finish her mothers work, maybe she can get Whit back. But when her experiment creates chaos in her love life, she realizes that maybe love and loss cant be understood using the scientific method. Can she learn to trust the unmeasurables of love and attraction instead?

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 7th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 14-17 years.

There are 256 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 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company .

Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and features reporter for The Boston Globe . She's been writing her column," Love Letters" -- a daily dispatch of wisdom for the lovelorn -- since 2009. In 2018, she'll release two books: Can't Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist , a memoir (Grand Central/Hachette/April 3), and Chemistry Lessons (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/June 19), a young adult novel about a woman who tries to use science to manipulate her love life. Meredith's debut novel, The Singles -- about the only dateless guests at a wedding -- was released in 2012. Meredith was born in New Jersey, raised in Maryland, and lives in Boston with a carnival-size cotton candy machine and a David Bowie doll. Visit her at www. MeredithGoldstein. com and on Twitter at @MeredithGoldste.