THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN ME IS YOU is available at Amazon, IndieBound, Powells, Barnes & Noble, and Books-a-Million. When Trixie’s best friend gets expelled for cheating and Trixie cries foul play, however, they have to choose who to believe and which side they’re on-and they might not pick the same side. Finding common ground is odious and tooth-pullingly-painful, but Trixie and Ben’s cautious truce slowly transforms into a fandom-based tentative friendship. The war is Trixie’s for the winning, until her best friend starts dating Ben’s best friend and the two are unceremoniously dumped together and told to play nice.
Over a decade later, it’s time to declare a champion once and for all. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben’s, including give up sleep and comic books-well, maybe not comic books-but definitely sleep. Who figurines at the local comic books store, and to place third in her class and knock Ben West-and his horrendous new mustache that he spent all summer growing-down to number four. Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: to finally save enough to buy the set of Dr. Stephanie Perkins meets 10 Things I hate About You in this fresh, romantic debut young adult novel inspired by Much Ado About Nothing.
And she’s going to start over as Ever Lawrence, on her own terms, without the shadow of all her family’s expectations.Swanky Seventeener Jilly Gagnon recently sat down with Sweet Sixteener Lily Anderson to discuss Anderson’s contemporary YA debut, THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN ME IS YOU (St.
Specifically, a cutthroat academic-decathlon-like competition for a full scholarship to Rayevich College, the only college with a Science Fiction Literature program. What she is going to do is pack up her attitude, her favorite Octavia Butler novels, and her Jordans, and go to summer camp. And that just isn’t appealing, no matter how many Xenomorphs from Alien she’d be able to defeat afterwards. As cool as it would be to live-action-role-play Ender’s Game, Ellie’s seen three generations of her family go through USAF boot camp up close, and she knows that it’s much less Luke/Yoda/”feel the force,” and much more one hundred push-ups on three days of no sleep.
And she certainly isn’t going to the Air Force summer program on her mother’s base in Colorado Springs. She isn’t going to mock trial camp at UCLA.ģ. She isn’t going to stay home in Sacramento, where she’d have to sit through her stepmother’s sixth community theater production of The Importance of Being Earnest.Ģ. The sequel to The Only Thing Worse than Me Is You, inspired by The Importance of Being Earnest.Įlliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn’t going to do this summer.ġ.
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