The Boy You Always Wanted
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- 4,49 €
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- 4,49 €
Publisher Description
A girl, a boy, a grandfather and a plan.
The girl: Francine. Model teenager, dutiful granddaughter, absolutely no chill.
The grandfather: Francine's beloved a gung. He has one final wish, a male heir to carry on the family traditions. It's an outdated idea, but Francine loves him, and she has a plan to bring him the boy he always wanted.
The boy: Ollie. Family friend, former crush, no idea how Francine has convinced him to get mixed up in her off-the-wall, and totally sexist, honorary grandson plan.
The plan: might work. But as Ollie and Francine's worlds collide, their secrets get tangled, and so do their feelings. Sometimes what you really want, isn't at all what you expected.
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Seventeen-year-old Francine Zhang must convince her conflict-averse classmate Ollie Tran to honor Francine's A Guˉng's dying wish in this feel-good novel by Quach (Not Here to Be Liked). After Francine learns that her grandfather worries about not having a male heir to carry on the family traditions, she approaches estranged friend Ollie with "The Plan": "Could you pretend to be my A Guˉng's honorary male heir?" Since Ollie is also of Chinese Vietnamese descent, and the teens' families are old friends, he seems an ideal, if unwilling, candidate. When his concerns surrounding lackluster extracurriculars on his college résumé become prevalent, however, he agrees to the ploy in exchange for Francine's help in joining a club. As Francine confronts the self-imposed pressure to be a perfect problem solver and Ollie's membership in the school's Multicultural Club forces him to connect with his family in new and unfamiliar ways, romantic feelings blossom. While a quick resolution somewhat deflates the protagonists' arcs, Quach spins, via Francine and Ollie's alternating perspectives, an emotionally raw portrait of two seemingly opposite teens as they come together to help alleviate each other's personal challenges and grow romantically closer in the process. Ages 13–up.
