When boyfriend Elliott breaks up with Jenna Sakai before Christmas break, she just about convinces herself that relationships are for suckers and she is better off without them; but unfortunately she finds herself in competition with Elliott for a journalism scholarship, and worse her first assignment for the newspaper club is to write a personal essay, which is difficult when you are someone who prefers to keep your emotions bottled up--and than there is Rin Watanabe, a boy as stubborn as Jenna herself, and a mystery that Jenna cannot help but investigate.
year: 2021
call number/section: 1000
subjects: best friends, juvenile fiction, dating (social customs), interpersonal relations, japanese americans, middle schools, self-perception, student newspapers and periodicals, fiction, friendship, schools, college and school journalism, school stories