Popular party girl and high school senior Jessica Stone has a secret: she used to be a nerd - a big one; a goody two-shoes, grade-skipping, all-state spelling bee champ. But she lost the braces, put on some contacts, and applied all her academic genius to studying and imitating the social elite. Now she rules the school from the upper echelon of the high school realm. With her cool new friends and hottest-guy-in-school boyfriend, life's a beach - and that's where she's headed for Spring Break. That is, until her teacher breaks the bad news that she's failing Biology - and her only chance to make up the grade is to throw away the culminating trip of her hard-earned popularity and join the Conservation Club in Panama to save the Golden Frog. Unable to let go of her faded college dreams, Jess finds herself in a foreign country with a new social crew, and one handsome face that stands out as a blast from the past, threatening to ruin her queen bee reputation. Travis Henley may have grown up, but he still likes to play childish games and as payment for retrieving Jess' lost ring from the bottom of a jungle pool, he wants three dates. While Jess does battle with spiders, snakes, wildfires and smart mean girls, she desperately tries to hang on to the last vestiges of her popular existence like the Golden Frog from its webbed toe. But as she starts to care about something more than tanning and texting - a species on the verge of disappearing forever - she may realize the worth of her inner nerd, and the one frog in particular that could be her prince in disguise. Check out the Playlist on Spotify: Kissing Frogs - A Tropical Fairytale and see if you can figure out which songs are from each Character's POV! Status: Completed Highest Rank - #1 Eco / #15 fairy-tales / #41 Humour / #98 Teen Fiction

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"If you can't find a reason to smile, then I'll become your reason." . Jenn is a natural beauty, whose family broke apart when she was nine when her father died. From then on, nothing she ever did brought a real smile to her lips except for the rare sightings due to Disney and puns. When Jeremy moves to the lonely town in hopes of living peacefully despite having to fly from and to California, he is immediately interested. At the age of ten, he promised to make her smile for thirty days. The promise got an eye roll and was long forgotten, but it still exsists-at least in Jeremy's mind. And at the age of seventeen and eighteen, the promise was finally being brought to life. . Jenn is cold and heartless following the death of her favorite parent, her father. Jeremy is the childhood friend who is quite the opposite and is trying to thaw Jenn's heart. And he already has a plan.

They met in December.

Hamilton Academy of the Arts. The school Sydney Acosta moved to all the way from Toronto, Ontario in a barely known city. After the divorce between her mother and father, she's stuck by her mother's side, following her to another city in Canada. Her emotions are expressed through the one thing she loves doing: dancing. Lucas Cahill is a quiet, almost outcast in the school. His twin brother, Joseph, better known as Joey, is the best known guy in school. He's considered popular, cooler and better looking than his brother despite the two having the same face. At school, Joey doesn't acknowledge his brother, at home and in the past they are inseparable with the excuses from Joey tolling up over time. His isolation and other emotions are expressed through his art. The two seventeen year olds are connected in their different forms of art in a teenage story filled with drama, sarcasm and loads of creativity. "My drawings are like stick figures compared to anything you draw. You could draw the world's ugliest frog and it will still turn out beautiful. Lucas you're an amazing artist." "So are you." He said quietly, looking up at me with his soft, heartwarming eyes. "How?"I couldn't draw for shit. "Because you are a dancer. Dancing is an art. And you are an amazing dancer." Cover~ xThePineappleGirlx #15 Teen Fiction (11/12/16)

"Go to prom with me." "No." Side note: this story is pretty "fluffy" and was made from the many boring moments I had on bus rides. #17 in Chicklit (27/03/2018)

They're worlds apart, and this isn't high school, so how the hell did a homeless female writer end up renting a billionaire's mansion? And - hold your breath - becoming his fake girlfriend? ➳ full blurb inside ➳ first reached #1 in humor on july 6, 2015 ➳ first reached #1 in business on august 29, 2023 ➳ winner of best humor book in the fiction awards 2016 ➳ featured by cadbury (marvellous creations) and secret lives of the americans (pivot) P.S. This is a SATIRICAL BILDUNGSROMAN. Proceed with caution. (cover by @glueeater)

Swish (n) A shot which goes through the net without hitting the backboard or rim. (v) To make a swish. The only thing Sal wants is to make the basketball team. Her older brother is the captain of the boys’ varsity team, so it only makes sense that basketball runs through her blood. Except for the fact that it doesn’t. Bring in Ezra, a cute senior with a mysterious backstory and a better jump shot than Jordan. He decides to help Sal make the team, whatever it takes: late nights in the gym alone, LOTS of contact, and a little more-than-friendly bonding. They both want Sal to make the team, but at the end of the day, all that really matters is the swish.

It was Rose's dream to get chosen for Exchange. She just never planned on it being Mason Tanner's. With an undeniable dislike for each other, Mason Tanner and Rose Pierce, two polar opposites, have their worlds thrown upside down when chosen to go on the same Exchange programme together. Thrust into a world of aeroplane flights, boarding school, British teenagers, and the beautiful chaos of London, Rose and Mason are forced to discover that more lies beneath the surface and their worlds are drawn dangerously close. Hidden passions, haunting pasts, and a whole lot of arguing. Could a city change everything?

Arthur and Arabella really ought to stop meeting like this. [#8 short story / #80 teen fiction]