Field Notes on Love
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4.3 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Hugo and Mae want get their lives on track. What they're not expecting to find is each other.
When Hugo's long-term girlfriend Margaret Campbell breaks up with him the summer before uni, she leaves him a parting gift: the US cross-country train trip they had planned to take together. The only problem is that all the tickets are in her name - Hugo needs to find another Margaret Campbell quickly.
When New Yorker Mae Campbell doesn't get into film school, her friends and family tell her she needs to take more chances. Maybe this trip with an English boy looking for someone with her name is the answer, and maybe she will get a decent film out of it too.
Jennifer E. Smith's YA novel Field Notes on Love is a heart-warming love story about grabbing opportunities and trusting your instincts.
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When Hugo Wilkinson and his girlfriend, Margaret Campbell both from Surrey, England break up before university, he's left with tickets for a rail trip across the United States that she had planned for them. But the trip is nontransferable, and all of the reservations are in her name, so Hugo can't go unless he can find a replacement Margaret Campbell. The timing couldn't be better for Margaret "Mae" Campbell from New York's Hudson Valley (she's just been rejected from USC's film school and needs a distraction), who finds Hugo's notice for a travel companion through social media. When the two first meet at New York's Penn Station, it's not exactly love at first sight, but after sharing close quarters, exploring new cities, and confiding their dreams and disappointments, passion begins to ignite. Told from the protagonists' alternating perspectives and offering a well-rounded cast of secondary characters (especially sextuplet Hugo's siblings and Mae's feisty grandmother), this novel by Smith (Windfall) gives a contemporary twist to the tried-and-true plot of two strangers falling in love on a train. A coming-of-age story as well as a romance, it offers authentic, complementary protagonists while capturing the thrill of exploring new territory. Ages 12 up.)
