Far from Xanadu

Author: Julie Anne Peters

From the author of Luna comes this heartbreaking yet hopeful novel about a small-town girl who falls in love with the cool, complicated, and sexy new girl in town, but who is just out of reach., , In this fresh, poignant novel Mike is struggling to come to terms with her father’s suicide and her mother’s detachment from her family. Mike (real name Mary Elizabeth) is gay and l….Read More

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