The Things You Kiss Goodbye Hardcover - 2014
by Leslie Connor
- Used
- Hardcover
High-school junior Bettina Vasilis is stunned when basketball star Brady Cullen asks her out. But soon the sweet boy she fell in love with changes. Then she meets a guy in his 20s who's everything Brady is notNgentle, caring, and interested in getting to know the real Bettina.
Description
Details
- Title The Things You Kiss Goodbye
- Author Leslie Connor
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2014
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0060890916I2N00
- ISBN 9780060890919 / 0060890916
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (20.57 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Love, Dating violence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013043191
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
Bettina Vasilis can hardly believe it when basketball star Brady Cullen asks her out, and she just about faints when her strict father actually approves of him. Over the course of the summer, Bettina falls in love with Brady . . . and with the new freedom that comes along with him.
But when school starts up again, Brady changes. What happened to the sweet boy she fell in love with? Then she meets a smoldering guy in his twenties, and this "cowboy" is everything Brady is not--gentle, caring, and interested in getting to know the real Bettina, or "Beta," as he nicknames her.
Bettina knows that breaking up with Brady would mean losing her freedom--and that it would be inappropriate for anything to happen between her and Cowboy. Still, she can't help that her breath catches when he smiles, or that she longs for the scent of his auto shop whenever she's anywhere else.
When tragedy strikes, Bettina must tell her family the truth--and kiss goodbye the things she thought she knew about herself and the men in her life.
Leslie Connor has written a lyrical, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful story about family, romance, and the immense power of love.
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2014, Page 97
- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2014, Page 16
- Horn Book Magazine, 07/01/2014, Page 89
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2015, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2014, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 05/12/2014, Page 0
- PW Children's Starred Reviews, 12/01/2014, Page 93
- Romantic Times, 07/01/2014, Page 44
- School Library Journal, 05/01/2014, Page 126
- Voice of Youth Advocates, 08/01/2014, Page 0
