Love by the Book: A Novel Ages 12 and up The characters defy their author:

The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back

and she’s going to do everything within her power to get it

a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South

” writes editor Elizabeth Alexander

Love by the Book: A Novel Ages 12 and up The characters defy their author:Friendship is the love story you can count on. Remy is lucky. Her debut novel, based on her three best friends, became an instant bestseller when it was released, and her agent and publisher are clamoring for a follow up. But just as Remys creative inspiration seems to leave her, so too do her friends: one moves to New York, one gets pregnant, and one gets back together with her (awful) boyfriend. After an ill advised one night stand complicates