Nowhere Better Than Here

Never Evers

Telling the Time

Triumphs (Houghton Mifflin Reading)

A Lesson Learned

Will on the Inside

Growing Up Great!: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Boys

South Carolina

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?

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Nowhere Better Than Here

Sarah Guillory, 2022

Never Evers

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Telling the Time

Sally Mcnulty, 1984

Triumphs (Houghton Mifflin Reading)

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

A Lesson Learned

Patricia Lichty Neely, 2018

Will on the Inside

Andrew Eliopulos, 2023

Growing Up Great!: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Boys

Scott Todnem, 2019

South Carolina

Victoria L. Berri, Vikki L. Berri, 2003