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Holidays mean family, friends, presents—and extra doses of drama! But for three girls, the one gift they weren't expecting may be everything they ever hoped for… Shopping for My Boyfriend by Earl Sewell When Jeremy, Anna's longtime crush, asks her to be his girlfriend, it's a yuletide surprise she never saw coming. And in order to get him the perfect gift, she will have to do a total 180 from shy girl to outrageous reality-show contestant. But to discover what Jeremy truly desires for Christmas, Anna will have to get close and risk her heart…. My Only Wish by Caridad Ferrer Claudia Abreu knew her family was doing more than hiding presents and heating up Cuban cider for her holiday homecoming. Just her luck—her childhood friend, who has been invited as her New Year's Eve party date, is athletic and popular…pretty much everything she's not.
About the Author
Caridad Ferrer is a first generation, bilingual Cuban-American, whose young adult debut, Adiós to My Old Life was Romance Writers of America's 2007 RITA® winner for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance as well as being named to the 2009 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults list, awarded by the ALA and winning the Bronze medal in the Young Adult category of the Florida Book Awards.
Her latest young adult novel, When the Stars Go Blue, a contemporary retelling of Bizet's Carmen, was released by Thomas Dunne Books with Booklist calling it, "Well written, with contemporary characters and an engaging story line." Recently, Stars was honored as the first place YA Novel: English Language at the 2011 International Latino Book Awards.
A native Floridian, Ferrer now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest, thriving amidst the rain and cooler weather, finding it the perfect writing environment as she hangs out with her dogs, family, and good coffee, dreaming up new stories with which to entertain herself and her readers.
Follow her on Twitter at @BarbFerrer or on Facebook at Barbara Caridad Ferrer.
