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Buchta, Heather,

Beyond the break / Heather Buchta. - New York, NY : Penguin Workshop, [2020] - 342 pages ; 22 cm.

For fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han, Beyond the Break is a funny and gorgeous debut about a girl experiencing her first love. Well, second, if you count her faith...and that's where things may get complicated. Seventeen-year-old Lovette has two rules in life. One: no surfing. Not after her brother's accident. Two: absolutely, no dating. And going into her junior year of high school, she's pretty happy with that arrangement. She has friends, her church youth group, and God to fall back on when things get dicey. But after Jake Evans walks into her life, following these two simple rules gets a lot more complicated. Jake is the boy from Lovette's childhood who grew up. Handsome and sweet, he unlocks the part of Lovette that wants nothing more than to surf the waves again. And as their relationship grows, she begins to question what it means to be faithful: to her family, to God, but mostly, to herself. Told with humor and heart, Heather Buchta delivers a sparkling debut that asks the question: Can you fall in love, be a teenager, and also be a good Christian?

ISBN: 9780593096994 0593096991 0593097017 9780593097014

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Surfing--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Dating (Social customs)--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Christian life--Fiction.
Love--Fiction.
Christian fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Love stories.
Religious fiction.
Romance fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.1.B819 / Bey 2020

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]