From the bestselling author of Plan B comes a funny and touching new novel about a girl, a boy, and a notebook that could ruin everything.
Emily Abbott has always been considered the Girl Most Likely to Be Niceâbut lately being nice hasnât done her any good. Her parents have decided to move the family from Chicago back to their hometown of Boston in the middle of Emilyâs senior year. Only Emilyâs first real boyfriend, Sean, is in Chicago, and so is her shot at class valedictorian and early admission to the Ivy League. Whatâs a nice girl to do?
Then Sean dumps Emily on moving day and her father announces heâs staying behind in Chicago âto tie up loose ends,â and Emily decides that what a nice girl needs to do is to stop being nice.
She reconnects with her best friends in Boston, Josie and Lucy, only to discover that they too have been on the receiving end of some glaring Guy Donâts. So when the girls have to come up with something to put in the senior class time capsule, they know exactly what to do. Theyâll create a not-so-nice reference guide for future generations of guysâan instruction book that teaches them the right way to treat girls.
But when her friends draft Emily to test out their tips on Luke Prestonâthe hottest, most popular guy in school, who just broke up with Josie by emailâEmily soon finds that Luke is the trickiest of test subjects...and that even a nice girl like Emily has a few things to learn about love.