Being Friends With Boys
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Authors: Terra Elan McVoy
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Love & Romance, #Performing Arts, #Music, #Social Issues, #Emotions & Feelings, #Friendship, #Dating & Sex
Praise for
Pure
“I love this book. Like,
love
it love it. My heart expanded when I read it—
yours will too!” —Lauren Myracle, bestselling author of
ttyl
and
Shine
“Terra Elan McVoy’s writing is, plainly speaking, wonderful.”
—The Compulsive Reader
“Fast, funny, and very contemporary.” —
Booklist
Praise for
After the Kiss
*
“Richly allusive. The imagery is often startling with an originality that exhales into a perfect aptness for the experience.”
—
The Bulletin
, starred review
“A fresh, observant story.” —
Publishers Weekly
“Vivid.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Praise for
The Summer of Firsts and Lasts
“Unflinchingly honest . . . I completely lost myself in this book.”
—Lauren Barnholdt, author of
Two-Way Street
“A poignant portrayal of sisterhood, summer love, responsibility,
betrayal, and forgiveness.” —
Booklist
“[A] well-told story that celebrates the powerful love between sisters.”
—
Publishers Weekly
Charlotte and Oliver
have been friends forever. She knows that he, Abe, and Trip consider her to be one of the guys, and she likes it that way. She likes being the friend who keeps them all together. Likes offering a girl’s perspective on their love lives. Likes being the behind-the-scenes wordsmith who writes all the lyrics for the boys’ band. Char has a house full of stepsisters and a past full of backstabbing (female) ex-best friends, so for her, being friends with boys is refreshingly drama-free . . . until it isn’t anymore.
When a new boy enters the scene and makes Char feel like, well, a total girl . . . and two of her other friends have a falling out that may or may not be related to one of them deciding he possibly wants to be
more
than friends with Char . . . being friends with all these boys suddenly becomes a lot more complicated.
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Terra Elan McVoy
is the author of
Pure, After the Kiss,
and
The Summer of Firsts and Lasts.
She has had many jobs (and degrees) that center around reading and writing, from managing an independent children’s bookstore to teaching writing classes, and even answering fan mail for Captain Underpants. Terra lives and works in the same Atlanta neighborhood where
Being Friends with Boys
is set. To learn more about Terra’s life, visit
terraelan.com
.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Summary: Living with stepsisters and having a bad history with female friends, Charlotte enjoys the easy relationships that come with managing an all-male band but things get complicated when dating becomes an issue, and she is urged to sing in public.
[1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction 2. Dating (Social customs) —Fiction. 3. Bands
(Music) —Fiction. 4. Stepsisters—Fiction. 5. Self-confidence—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M478843Bei 2012 [Fic]—dc23 2011040176
ISBN 978-1-4424-2159-2 ISBN 978-1-4424-2161-5 (eBook)
This book is in part dedicated to
Aubry, Baby Astor, and Anger Lad.
But really it is for Amy Mc.
