Every time Amy Miller falls in love she eats her heart out—literally. Her latest craze is cupcakes, but when her friend Sharon finds Amy devouring a whole box of them, she knows Amy needs to find a hobby. Why not become a romance novelist?
Amy thinks it's a great idea, and Simon Adams, a cute English guy at school, fits right into the plot. In fact, he's the main character! Amy goes out with Simon to gather "data" for her book. It's a good thing she’s sworn off boys. She'd hate to let her feelings interfere with her work. But what about Simon's feelings...?
When Carl Jenson first moved to the Texas border town where Sarita Valdez lives, he didn't even know what a taco was. Sarita thought that was funny. She liked Carl's sweetness and his warm blue eyes, too. Sarita offers to show him around, and that's when she finds out that tacos aren't the only thing Carl knows nothing about. Her friends' prejudice against "Snowbirds," or Anglos from the North, is very real.
Sarita never expected to fall in love with Carl, but now that she has, she's afraid her friends won't accept him, or—worse yet—that they'll expect her to break up with him. How can Sarita's first love feel so right when everyone tells her it's so wrong?
The boyfriend is Karl, not Carl. The name is spelled wrong in the synopsis. Way to go, Scholastic!
On page 18, Sarita and her friend are referred to as the Bobbsey Twins.
The next paragraph spoils part of the ending.
Sarita realizes that her fears about her friends' prejudice were unfounded. Carmen asks her, "Do you think that maybe the prejudice was coming from somewhere inside you, instead?" Carmen further explains. "Sometimes, Sarita, what we most fear in others is really inside ourselves." I thought that this was an interesting development. It also allowed for the author to wrap up the plot in a nice, neat package with everyone getting along happily ever after.
The cover photo really bothers me. The girl looks like the typical Caucasian American. Before I began reading the book, I barely glanced at the summary, since I find that the summaries often reveal way too much information that I would rather not know at the beginning of the book. Since I barely glanced at the summary, I thought that the boyfriend would be the Latino, not the female protagonist.
The girl on the cover does not look Latino. She could vaguely be, but she just looks like the girls on all of the covers. This is so lame! Scholastic should have used an obvious Latino girl. I was so disappointed.
This is an excellent book.
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Congrats on finishing the series! :)
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