Emergency Contact (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781534408968)

"Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book." --Rainbow Rowell

From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory--perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I've Loved Before.

For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn't actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it's seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can't wait to leave behind.

Sam's stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he's a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.

When Sam and Penny cross paths it's less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch--via text--and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.

Author: Mary H. K. Choi
ISBN-10: 1534408967
ISBN-13: 9781534408968
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2018
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.90w x 1.20d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 500310 / Emergency Contact


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/01/2018
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2018 - Recommended - Readable
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2018
School Library Journal 02/01/2018 pg. 98
BookPage 04/01/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory