i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

Until her academic rival, perfect blonde Christian good girl Shara Wheeler kisses her and then disappears. She’s on track to be validictorian, get out of this own, go to NYC with her best friend Georgia, and never look back. “Shame is a way of life here.” Chloe Green is openly queer with two moms in the middle of Alabama at a conservative Christian private school where no one else is the way she is. The reality of my teen years slammed into me as I read this, leading me to randomly bawl my eyes out without warning as the story progressed. This was growing up (closeted) queer in a small town in Illinois, going to a conservative Christian school where we didn’t have prom or homecoming and no one was allowed to be anything but cookie cutter straight and perfect. 'You won't want to miss.' - Good HousekeepingĪ Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books. 'McQuiston has done it again.' - USA Today

'An unfettered joy to read.' - The New York Times And maybe-probably not, but maybe-more to Shara, too.įierce, funny, and frank, Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places.

Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. It’ll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair and square.

The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Shara’s trail of clues and find her. There’s also Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny.īut a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of Willowgrove Christian Academy. 'Narrator Natalie Naudus admirably voices more than a half-dozen significant characters, imparting individuality and personality to teens embracing a variety of identities.'- BookPage (Starred review)įrom the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need.Ĭhloe Green is so close to winning.

I kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston