Kim Culbertson

Frustrated by the disruptive production of a Hollywood film in her once-quiet California town, Carter Moon reluctantly accepts a high-paying job to pose as a disgraced former child actor's girlfriend to improve his image.

Catch a Falling Star

Riya and Abby were best friends in their small California town, but Riya and her family moved to Berlin for Riya's junior year and it was hard to stay in touch; so now that the year has passed, Riya purposes that they take a two week Grand Tour and travel around Europe to reconnect--but the trouble is that they have both been hiding secrets, and those secrets threaten to push them apart forever.

The Wonder of Us

While on a school trip to Italy, Jessa opens one envelope a day from her best friend's care package and finds instructions designed to help her get over her recent breakup with her boyfriend.

Instructions for a Broken Heart

What happens when you've been planning for the future, but everything falls apart now. Mara James has always been a perfectionist with a plan. But despite years of overachieving at her elite school, Mara didn't plan on having a total meltdown during her calculus exam. Like a rip-upthe- test-and-walk-out kind of meltdown. And she didn't plan on a video of it going viral. And she definitely didn't plan on never wanting to show her face again. Mara knows she should go back, but suddenly she doesn't know why she's been overachieving all these years. Impulsively, she tells her mom she wants to go live with her estranged dad in Tahoe. Maybe in a place like Tahoe, where people go to get away from everyday life, and a dad like Trick McHale, a ski bum avoiding the real world, Mara can figure things out. Only Tahoe is nothing like she thought. There's awesome new friends and hot boys and a chance to finally get to know Trick, but there's also still massive amounts of schoolwork. Can Mara stopping planning long enough to see the life that's happening right now?

The Possibility of Now

After living in 12 places in eight years with her drifting mother, 14-year-old Calle Smith finds herself in Andreas Bay, California, at the start of ninth grade. Armed with her song journal, she moves to her own sound track through a world that bounces her between the school drama crowd, a mysterious loner, and an unlikely boy who will become her first love.

Songs for a Teenage Nomad

The Liberation of Max McTrue

Wintersternschnuppen

Sternengewitter

Three days before her drama club's trip to Italy, Jessa Gardner discovers her boyfriend in the costume barn with another girl. Jessa is left with a care package from her best friend titled "Top Twenty Reasons He's a Slimy Jerk Bastard," instructing her to do one un-Jessa-like thing each day of the trip. At turns hilarious and heartwrenching, Instructions for a Broken Heart paints a magical Italy in which Jessa learns she must figure out life-and romance-for herself. Praise for Songs For A Teenage Nomad: "A beautiful, lyrical read-I loved every last word of it!" -Alyson No©±l, New York Times bes.

A deliciously charming novel about finding true love . . . and yourself. Nothing ever happens in Little, CA. Which is just the way Carter Moon likes it. But when Hollywood arrives to film a movie starring former child star turned PR mess Adam Jakes, everything changes. Carter's town becomes a giant glittery set and, much to her annoyance, everyone is starry-eyed for Adam. Carter seems to be the only girl not falling all over herself to get a glimpse of him. Which apparently makes her perfect for the secret offer of a lifetime: playing the role of Adam's girlfriend while he's in town, to improve his public image, in exchange for a hefty paycheck. Her family really needs the money and so Carters agrees. But it turns out Adam isn't at all who she thought he was. As they grow closer, their relationship walks a blurry line between what's real and what's fake, and Carter must open her eyes to the scariest of unexplored worlds - her future. Can Carter figure out what she wants out of life AND get the guy? Or are there no Hollywood endings in real life?

Kim Culbertson is back with another fantastic new novel about what happens when you've been planning for the future, but everything falls apart now.

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