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Payal Mehta has had a crush on popular, athletic, all-around perfect Jonathan Slate ever since he smiled at her in freshman–year Spanish class. At a party during spring break of her junior year, Payal finally works up the courage to ask Jon to hang out. However, her romantic plans are derailed when he vomits on her Keds. Twice. But when Jon offers to take her out to lunch as an apology, Payal is convinced this is the start of their love story.
Over chalupas and burritos at Taco Bell, Payal's best jokes are landing as planned. Jon is basically choking on his Coke—and then it happens. "Do you have a boyfriend?" Payal is (finally) about to get the guy. And then he tries to set her up with his Indian friend. Payal's best friends, Neil Patel and Divya Bhatt, are just as mad about the microagression as Payal is, but they think she’s a little too hung up on him.
Determined to teach Jon a lesson by making him fall for her, Payal ropes in her archnemesis, Philip Kim, to help. It’s the perfect plan. Minus Philip’s snarky, annoying quips and lack of faith in its success. But as Payal lies to the people she loves, hides the too-Indian parts of herself in front of her crush, and learns that maybe Philip isn't the worst, she starts to wonder if what she's been looking for has been scowling at her all along...
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- ISBN: 9780593461907
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- ISBN: 9780593461907
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July 15, 2024
A teen devises a plan to make her crush fall for her. Ever since that fateful first day of freshman year, Indian American Payal Mehta has been enamored with blond-haired, blue-eyed classmate Jon Slate. Fast-forward three years: Payal encounters Jon at a party, and after she bravely suggests they hang out, Jon vomits on her shoes. Later, when Payal is injured at school, squeamish Jon vomitsagain (fortunately near, but not on, her). When he buys her lunch as an apology, Payal is sure their love story is just beginning. They seem to be hitting it off over Taco Bell until Jon, who's white, says things that make it clear that her being a brown girl rules out any romantic possibilities. Her best friends, Neil Patel and Divya Bhatt, and even her prickly school rival, Korean American Philip Kim, advise Payal to move on. But, still hung up on Jon's description of her as "funny and cute," Payal convinces herself that she can make him fall for her. She promises to let Philip take full credit for their psych project if he helps her, overriding his initial criticism of what he dubs "Operation End Racism With Love." Payal's na�vet� is comically delusional, but her determination to make herself appealing to Jon offers insights into how people can suppress parts of who they are in order to feel accepted, as well as the importance of being genuinely embraced. A cute romance that explores valuable themes around self-esteem.(Romance. 13-18)COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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September 15, 2024
Grades 7-10 When Payal's long-time crush, Jon, asks her to hold his cup at a party, she's convinced this is the start of their romance--until he throws up on her shoes. Then he throws up again at school. So when Jon takes Payal to lunch to apologize, she's sure it's a sign they were meant to be. But instead of asking her out, he makes it clear that her being brown doesn't work for him and tries to set her up with an Indian friend. Convinced she can change Jon's mind about her date-ability, Payal convinces her archnemesis, Phillip Kim, into helping her win Jon over. But when the plan starts to work, Payal must decide if what she's wanted wasn't Jon after all. Payal's journey is less about finding romance and more about finding a person who likes all of you. Perfect for fans of Never Have I Ever and Ten Things I Hate About You, this novel's witty banter and endearing side characters create a loving ode to teen rom-coms.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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