Nowhere Better Than Here

Never Evers

I Do: Caitlin: Book 5 (Diary of a Teenage Girl)

Eight Pieces of Silva

Triumphs (Houghton Mifflin Reading)

The Teen Brain Book: Who and What Are You

The Other Side of Blue

Will on the Inside

Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow—which is how she ends up singing in her friends’ punk band as a favor, even though she’d prefer to hide at the merch table.

Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a pseudonym, keeping it all under wraps from his disapproving family.

These two, who have practically nothing in common, meet for the first time on New Year’s Eve. And then again on Valentine’s Day. And then again on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s almost like the universe is pushing them together for a reason.

Delilah wishes she were more like Reggie—open about what she likes and who she is, even if it’s not cool. Except . . . it’s all a front. Reggie is just role-playing someone confident. The kind of guy who could be with a girl like Delilah.

As their holiday meetings continue, the two begin to fall for each other. But what happens once they realize they’ve each fallen for a version of the other that doesn’t really exist?

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Nowhere Better Than Here

Sarah Guillory, 2022

Never Evers

Tom Ellen, Ivison Lucy, 2016

I Do: Caitlin: Book 5 (Diary of a Teenage Girl)

Melody Carlson, 2005

Eight Pieces of Silva

Patrice Lawrence, 2020

Triumphs (Houghton Mifflin Reading)

John J. Pikulski, Houghton Mifflin, J. David Cooper, 2001

The Teen Brain Book: Who and What Are You

Dale Bick Carlson, Dale Carlson, 2004

The Other Side of Blue

Valerie O. Patterson, 2009

Will on the Inside

Andrew Eliopulos, 2023