Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Bea’s evolution from isolated academic to social butterfly, and her myriad cringe-worthy and applause-inducing trials and tribulations, are thoughtfully rendered, and a large, idiosyncratic cast populate her transformative whirlwind summer. Though she feels in over her head, Bea-with Mia and Nolan’s guidance-slowly comes out of her shell and develops a crush on Indian-cued Nikhil Shah, the handsome son of world-famous stage actors. Long Story Short - by Serena Kaylor (Hardcover) 15. Like the best of the Bard himself, Long Story Short combines dazzling repartee with iconic, nuanced characters and the kind of charged, perfectly paced romance fit for the world stage.a sparkling Shakespearean homage and a wonderful debut.

Once she arrives at the Connecticut Shakespearean Summer Academy, she meets extroverted Mia, her Black and bisexual roommate, as well as white Nolan, Mia’s gay “best camp friend” and costumer extraordinaire. Desperate to leave the nest, Bea strikes a deal with her parents: if she will step out of her comfort zone and socialize at a theater camp, they’ll let her attend Oxford.

Her parents, however, don’t think she’s ready to live abroad alone. White 16-year-old Californian Beatrice Quinn, who graduated high school at 14, has just gotten into the University of Oxford, her dream college. Brimming with wit, optimism, and adolescence’s seemingly never-ending awkwardness, Kaylor’s humorous debut follows one reserved, previously homeschooled teenager’s attempts to make friends and come into her own at a theater summer camp. Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of Always Never Yours In Serena Kaylors sparkling debut, a homeschooled math genius finds herself out.

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