In the Age of Love and Chocolate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250050717)

In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up and learning what love really is. It showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin's writing for young adults: the intricate characterization of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and the big-heartedness of Elsewhere.

All These Things I've Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen-year-old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya. She has lost her parents and her grandmother, and has spent the better part of her high school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps hardest of all, her decision to open a nightclub with her old nemesis Charles Delacroix has cost Anya her relationship with Win.

Still, it is Anya's nature to soldier on. She puts the loss of Win behind her and focuses on her work. Against the odds, the nightclub becomes an enormous success, and Anya feels like she is on her way and that nothing will ever go wrong for her again. But after a terrible misjudgment leaves Anya fighting for her life, she is forced to reckon with her choices and to let people help her for the first time in her life.

Author: Gabrielle Zevin
ISBN-10: 1250050715
ISBN-13: 9781250050717
Publisher: Square Fish
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2014
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 162361 / In the Age of Love and Chocolate

About the Author

Gabrielle Zevin is the author of Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, All These Things I've Done, and Because It is My Blood, as well as two novels for adults. Of her writing, The New York Times Book Review said, Zevin's touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities. She lives in New York City.