Not If You Break Up with Me First

by G F Miller (Author)

Not If You Break Up with Me First
Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade

Two friends who have unhappily found themselves accidentally dating try to drive the other one to call things off in this witty and heartfelt middle school romance.

Childhood friends Eve and Andrew are destined to be together--everyone says so, especially their friends and classmates who are all suddenly crush-obsessed. So when Eve and Andrew's first eighth grade school dance rolls around and Eve, feeling the pressure, awkwardly asks Andrew to go with her, everyone assumes they are Officially Dating and Practically in Love. Overwhelmed, Eve and Andrew just...go with it.

And it's weird. Neither of them wants this dating thing to mess up their friendship, and they don't really see each other that way. But they also don't want to be the one to call things off, the one to make things super awkward. So they both--separately--pledge to be the worst boyfriend or girlfriend ever, leaving it to the other person to break up with them. It would be genius...if the other person weren't doing the exact same thing.

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School Library Journal

Authentically captures the awkwardness and high jinks of middle school... This coming-of-age story will stay with everyone who reads it.

Kirkus

Perfectly captures the "actual disorder" of being 13.

ALA/Booklist

Funny and real.

Review quotes

Not If You Break Up with Me First is classic rom-com gold and I couldn't put it down. Kind of, maybe, accidentally falling for your best friend in middle school? Count me in! Eve and Andrew had my heart as they fake-dated in the very best-worst way. Put this one on your TBR stat! —Lynn Painter, bestselling author of Better Than the Movies

The thrilling, agonizing muddle between middle school friendship and something "more" plays out in all its messy authenticity in G.F. Miller\'s appealing, painfully funny second novel... Peer pressure, hormones, mixed feelings, gasp-worthy pranks: Not If You Break Up with Me First has it all. —Shelf Awareness, starred review

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781665950008
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Publication date
June 04, 2024
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV013000 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | General
JUV026000 - Juvenile Fiction | Love & Romance
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
Interpersonal relations
Teenagers
Dating (Social customs)
Best friends
Dating

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