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This New York Times bestselling novel, perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Sarah Dessen, and Morgan Matson, is now in paperback.Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer - 99 days - with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for . . . his brother.Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and thats how I know everyone still remembers everything. She has every right to hate me, of course: I broke Patrick Donnellys heart the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. Now Im serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college and be done.Day 4: A nasty note on my windshield makes it clear Julia isnt finished. Im expecting a fight when someone taps me on the shoulder, but its just Gabe, home from college and actually happy to see me. "For what its worth, Molly Barlow," he says, "Im really glad youre back."Day 12: Gabe wouldnt quit till he got me to come to this party, and Im surprised to find Im actually having fun. I think hes about to kiss me - and thats when I see Patrick. My Patrick, whos supposed to be clear across the country. My Patrick, whos never going to forgive me.



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Katie Cotugno

Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of seven messy, complicated feminist YA love stories including 99 Days, How to Love, Fireworks, Top Ten, 9 Days & 9 Nights, You Say It First, and Liar's Beach (Delacorte, 2022) , as well a forthcoming adult novel, Birds of California (Harper Perennial, 2022) . She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children's Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. Katie studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.



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