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Boy Meets Girl. Boy Charms Girl...For someone else
St. Martin's Griffin
September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
Featuring: Bridget Smalley; Ken Foster; Jesse Alderman
320 pages
ISBN: 1250051436
EAN: 9781250051431
Kindle: B00IQOFUBQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult
In Kat Spearsβs hilarious and often poignant debut, high school senior Jesse Alderman, or "Sway," as heβs known, could sell hell to a bishop. He also specializes in getting things people want---term papers, a date with the prom queen, fake IDs. He has few close friends and he never EVER lets emotions get in the way. For Jesse, life is simply a series of business transactions. But when Ken Foster, captain of the football team, leading candidate for homecoming king, and all-around jerk, hires Jesse to help him win the heart of the angelic Bridget Smalley, Jesse finds himself feeling all sorts of things. While following Bridget and learning the intimate details of her life, he falls helplessly in love for the very first time. He also finds himself in an accidental friendship with Bridgetβs belligerent and self-pitying younger brother who has cerebral palsy. Suddenly, Jesse is visiting old folks at a nursing home in order to run into Bridget, and offering his time to help the less fortunate, all the while developing a bond with this young man who idolizes him. Could the tin man really have a heart after all? A Cyrano de Bergerac story with a modern twist, Sway is told from Jesseβs point of view with unapologetic truth and biting humor, his observations about the world around him untempered by empathy or compassion---until Bridgetβs presence in his life forces him to confront his quiet devastation over a life-changing event a year earlier and maybe, just maybe, feel something again.
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