Can I Stray
Book description
Fourteen-year-old Brooke Tyler has spent her whole life waiting for a boy to choose her. Matt is about to go to university, scared to leave behind everything he knows. When both are cast as romantic leads in Romeo and Juliet, they fulfil the roles of forbidden lovers both on and…
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1 author picked Can I Stray as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Jenna Adams' debut novel perfectly captures that youthful feeling of being desperate for love but, deep down, not yet ready for it. But what makes it such a powerful story is how she portrays the difficult balance between intent and responsibility and how the lack of the first does not diminish the impact of the second.
At fourteen, Brooke is desperate for a boy, any boy, to want to be with her. When she and Matt grow close during rehearsals for her local drama group, the fact that he is four years older than her doesn't stop them from beginning…
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