First Times: Stories Selected by Marthe Jocelyn

What's Not to Love

It Was September When We Ran Away the First Time

My Especially Weird Week with Tess

Lost It

Rent a Boyfriend

Time of Our Lives

Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child

WOULD YOU RATHER know what’s going to happen or not know?
A summer night. A Saturday. For Natalie’s amazing older sister, Claire, this summer is fantastic, because she’s zooming off to college in the fall. For Natalie, it’s a fun summer with her friends; nothing special. When Claire is hit by a car, the world changes in a heartbeat. Over the next four days, moment by moment, Natalie, her parents, and their friends wait to learn if Claire will ever recover.


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First Times: Stories Selected by Marthe Jocelyn

Marthe Jocelyn, 2007

What's Not to Love

Emily Wibberley, Siegemund-Broka Austin, 2021

It Was September When We Ran Away the First Time

D. James Smith, 2008

My Especially Weird Week with Tess

Anna Woltz, 2013

Lost It

Kristen Tracy, 2007

Rent a Boyfriend

Gloria Chao, 2020

Time of Our Lives

Emily Wibberley, Siegemund-Broka Austin, 2020

Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child

Maria T. Lennon, 2013