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I Kissed Shara Wheeler
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Publisher's Summary
2022 Chapters Indigo Best of the Year, Long-listed
2022 NPR Best Book of the Year, Long-listed
2022 Audible.com Best of the Year, Long-listed
2022 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2022 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2022 BookPage Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
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"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)
From 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...
Chloe Green is so close to winning. 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. The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny.
But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes.
On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed. There’s also Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. 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. It’ll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair and square.
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. And maybe—probably not, but maybe—more to Shara, too.
Fierce, funny, and frank, Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places.
"An unfettered joy to read." - The New York Times
"McQuiston has done it again." - USA Today
"You won't want to miss." - Good Housekeeping
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"I Kissed Shara Wheeler is a love letter to all of us queer kids who were high schoolers in the ’90s. Especially those of us who lived in small towns and whose social scenes revolved around Friday night football games and church on Sunday. [An] unexpected mystery and love story all in one." - Bust
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- Sarah Young
- 2023-05-26
cute
honestly it was cute, a bit unrealistic but it's a book so who cares if it is ?
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-09-30
High school Angst
What a great story about high school angst, and finding yourself while everyone around you seems to be judging you! Chloe as a protagonist can be a little annoying in that dense high school way, but it fits her character and strongly reminds me of myself at that age, I too was a bitch! Props to Natalie for reading this so well! her reading style was engaging and the different voices she did never jarred me from the book! would definitely listen to other books read by her!
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