Basically all I did in junior high was text, straighten my hair, add to my Benedict Cumberbatch shrine, and worry about how to be more popular. Thinking about it makes me cringe.
I want to be different in high school. Like a new person.
And I want to make out with someone. Itâs so humiliating that Iâm a kissing virgin at this advanced age. The longer I go un-smooched, the more freakish I feel. If I graduate high school without being kissed, Iâll be too embarrassed to kiss anyone during college, and then Iâll most likely die without ever even getting to second base. Something has to change fast. This I vow: I will kiss a guy before New Yearâs Eve. (Or maybe itâll happen ON New Yearâs Eve?) OK, this I vow: I will kiss a guy before New Yearâs Day. Vow TAKEN.
Fourteen-year-old Chloe Snow is about to start ninth grade when her brilliant, beautiful, artistic mum announces she can't create great art in suburban Massachusetts, and goes to Mexico to work on her novel. Bewildered at being left behind with only her (socially awkward) dad as company, Chloe throws herself into a series of new pursuits, including auditioning for the school a cappella group, making new friends, and landing the lead in the school musical. In the course of these adventures, she attracts the attention of Mac Brody, the cuter half of THE Senior Couple, and Bernadette Sanz, the schoolâs Meanest Senior Girl. And then things begin to go pretty seriously wrong.
Can Chloe recover from a gigantic mess of her own creation? And will her mum's Eat, Pray, Love-fest EVER end?
Told in 365 diary entries, one for each day of the most seminal year of Chloeâs life so far, this laugh-out-loud novel is peppered with texts, lists, emails and tweets, making it a modern take on the classic teen coming-of-age story.