Not Exactly a Love Story

from RaeLynn_Fry

Not Exactly a Love Story By Audrey Couloumbis Random House Children's Books $17.99 Hardcover $10.99 eBook Publisher's Summary: It's 1977. Fifteen-year old Vinnie isn't having a good year. He's recovering from the worst case of galloping acne his dermatologist's ever seen. His girl moved to Cal...

from ShellyPYA

After his parents divorce, high school junior Vinnie Gold moves to Long Island with his mother and new stepfather and must negotiate a secret crush and a rather complicated connection with the popular girl next door.

from booktwirps

To say fifteen-year-old Vinnie's life sucks would be an extreme understatement. His "girl" (who wasn't really his girl, more like a crush who barely knew he existed) just moved away, his acne is totally out of control, and his parents just got a divorce. No sooner is the divorce final than Vinnie...

from BookConcierge

When 15-year-old Vinnie's parents divorce he tries to be supportive of each of them. But he's having a bad year: he has a raging case of acne, the girl he's secretly loved for two years moved to California without so much as a goodbye, his dog died, he got mugged and he's failing gym. Could thing...

from A_Reader_of_Fictions

Actual Rating: 3.5 starsDespite not ever having heard anything about Couloumbis or Not Exactly a Love Story, I was intrigued. I mean, how many YA books do you hear about set in the 1970s? That's just not a popular era for historical fiction yet. At first, I wasn't too sure whether this was going ...