She doesn’t know how she will fit in at school tomorrow because she can’t speak a word of French, and she’s terribly homesick. On her first night in the strange new dorm room, Anna cries herself to sleep. Not interested in integrating or making new friends, she plans to stay in her room as much as possible. When her parents fly her to Paris and leave her at school, she feels powerless and angry. She can’t believe her parents are making her leave them behind just so that she can experience a new culture. She has a great best friend, Bridgette, and she has a major crush on Toph, a popular boy at school. Although many teenagers would be thrilled to live in Europe, Anna is devastated. Before she begins her senior year, her parents tell her that she is spending the school year in Paris, France. Anna Oliphant, an American, dreams of one day becoming a film critic. She is currently working on more young adult novels. Perkins is a bestselling contemporary romance writer for young adults her debut novel, Anna and the French Kiss, has been nominated for numerous awards. Stephanie Perkins’s young adult contemporary romance Anna and the French Kiss (2010), the first book in a trilogy of the same name, follows the title character’s romance with a handsome French boy.
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