Name: Love and Other Foreign Words
ISBN: 9780803740518

Erin McCahan

Brilliant fifteen-year-old Josie has a knack for languages, but her sister's engagement has Josie grappling with the nature of true love, her feelings for her best friend Stu, and how anyone can be truly herself, or truly in love, in a social language that is not her own.

Love and Other Foreign Words

Victoria

This book is great! Not so much as amazing or mind-blowing, but still it's quite up there. I looove Josie's family and I looove Josie's friendship with Stu and Sophie. I love the characters a whole lot. This is a mixture of love and comedy and friendship and family matters.

And the ending wasn't too shabby. It made me laugh a lot!

María Belén

Lovely read, although predictable. Still, I found it funny and entertaining.

Zoe Smolen

Entertaining enough. But I found it predictable and found the characters annoying and two-dimensional.

Jacelyn

Sofia Bautista 

celene

Melsriana

Yari Chu Luo

Tess 

Amanda Kordeliski

Sharmica Surendran 

Katherine Pacheco

Equal parts comedy and coming of age, this is a whip-smart, big-hearted, laugh-out-loud love story about sisters, friends, and what it means to love at all. Can anyone be truly herself—or truly in love—in a language that's not her own? Sixteen-year-old Josie lives her life in translation. She speaks High School, College, Friends, Boyfriends, Break-ups, and even the language of Beautiful Girls. But none of these is her native tongue--the only people who speak that are her best friend Stu and her sister Kate. So when Kate gets engaged to an epically insufferable guy, how can Josie see it as anything but the mistake of a lifetime? Kate is determined to bend Josie to her will for the wedding; Josie is determined to break Kate and her fiancé up. As battles are waged over secrets and semantics, Josie is forced to examine her feelings for the boyfriend who says he loves her, the sister she loves but doesn't always like, and the best friend who hasn't said a word--at least not in a language Josie understands. “Josie’s a rarity in teen literature, a genuine original . . . Lively characters and a satisfying plot foil reader expectations in the best possible way.”—Kirkus Reviews

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