All Alone with You
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- USD 10.99
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- USD 10.99
Descripción editorial
Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this “simmering” (Publishers Weekly) novel about a standoffish teen girl whose loner status gets challenged by a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy.
Eloise Deane is the worst and doesn’t care who knows it. She’s grumpy, prefers to be alone, and is just slogging through senior year with one goal: get accepted to USC and move to California. So when her guidance counselor drops the bombshell that to score a scholarship she’ll desperately need, her applications require volunteer hours, Eloise is up for the challenge. Until she’s paired with LifeCare, a volunteer agency that offers social support to lonely seniors through phone calls and visits. Basically, it’s a total nightmare for Eloise’s anxiety.
Eloise realizes she’s made a huge mistake—especially when she’s paired with Austin, the fellow volunteer who’s the sunshine to her cloudy day. But as Eloise and Austin work together to keep Marianne Landis—the mysterious former frontwoman of the 1970s band the Laundromats—company, something strange happens. Eloise actually…likes Marianne and Austin? She isn’t sure what to do with that, especially when her feelings toward Austin begin to blur into more-than-friends territory.
And when ex-girlfriends, long-buried wounds, and insecurities reappear, Eloise will have a choice to make: go all in with Marianne and Austin or get out before she gets hurt.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seventeen-year-old Eloise Deane has been a loner ever since her friends ditched her for emotionally withdrawing during a depressive episode. But she's not going to let her lack of friends, or her anxiety disorder, stop her from getting accepted into her dream school: the University of Southern California. After her father loses his job, however, her only hope of affording USC is to receive a scholarship. To help pad her transcript, her school sets her up with community service hours at LifeCare, a program that matches volunteers with seniors in need of companionship. There she meets her teenage trainer Austin Yang, whose sunny disposition puts introverted Eloise on high alert. Together, they visit 73-year-old Marianne Landis, a notorious recluse and former rock star. As Eloise learns more about Marianne's past and grows closer to Austin, her two new friends' kindness and vulnerability help her grow more confident in herself. This simmering romance by Coombs (Exactly Where You Need to Be), narrated in Eloise's sarcastic yet sincere first-person voice, realistically portrays the risks and rewards of stepping outside of one's comfort zone and learning to accept oneself for all their perceived flaws. Most characters cue as white; Austin is Korean American. Ages 14–up.