Operation Pucker Up
By (Author) Rachele Alpine
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
18th September 2024
Reissue
United States
Children
Fiction
Children's / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories
Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Children's / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing arts
FIC
Paperback
272
Width 130mm, Height 194mm, Spine 18mm
184g
A girl and her friends enact a scheme to get her first kiss over with before she has to lock lips on stage for the school play in this charming middle grade rom-com in the spirit of Meg Cabotnow with a fresh new look!
Prince Charming wakes Snow White with a kiss. My world came crashing down with two words. A kiss!
Grace Shaw just scored the coveted lead in her school play, Snow White, alongside James Loweher hot, popular Prince Charming. Theres just one problem: they kiss at the end. And Grace has never been kissed before. Which means that Graces role sounds more like her worst nightmare than a dream come true.
So, Graces two best friends propose Operation Pucker Upa plan for Grace to score a kiss before opening night so she doesnt make a fool of herself in front of an audience. As if Grace isnt having a hard enough time, her estranged father suddenly reappears after leaving six months earlier. Her mom and sister welcome Dad back with open arms, but Grace cant simply forgive and forget.
With opening night fast approaching, Operation Pucker Up reaching ridiculous levels, and family drama teeming behind the scenes, Grace is beginning to think all this love stuff is way too complicated. Will she find a way to have her happily ever afterand seal it with a kissboth onstage and off
One of Rachele Alpines first jobs was at a library, but it didnt last long, because all she did was hide in the third-floor stacks and read. Now shes a little more careful about when and where she indulges her reading habit. Rachele is a high school English teacher by day, a wife and mother by night, and a writer during any time she can find in between. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she writes middle grade and young adult novels. Visit her at RacheleAlpine.com.