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The Breakup Bible

Jen Lewis is having a great junior year. She is the features editor of the school paper, and she's dating Max Brown, the paper's editor-in-chief.

Everything is perfect—that is, until Max says, "Maybe it would be better if we were just friends." In shock and total denial, Jen wonders how she is going to deal with the pain of seeing Max in school every day. Her misery only intensifies when her grandmother gives her a book that she heard about on the radio. Dr. Emerson's The Breakup Bible claims that "there's no reason a woman can't get over a breakup very quickly if she'll just follow a few basic commandments." Jen is doubtful. What does Dr. Emerson know about her and Max?

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In a send-up to the scores of dating books on the market, Melissa Kantor's The Breakup Bibletackles the aftermath of a high school romance with her trademark honesty, humor, and wit.

Genre
romancewomen’s fictionliterary fictionhumorcoming of age
Themes
friendshipfeminism
Setting
2000shigh school
Mood
angstfunnylight
Audience
young adultadultchildrens
Length
medium · 272 pages

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