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Meant to Be | May 1, 2013

by Lauren Morrill (Nov. 2012, Delacorte Books/Random House Children’s Books)

If you fell in love with Ann and the French Kiss or looked around the airport for your one true love after reading Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, then this is the book for you.

Lauren Morrill takes her readers on a tour around London in search of love in Meant to Be. Julia is the good girl: good grades, good behavior, and she never does anything out of the ordinary –until she is paired with class clown Jason while on a school trip in London.

Julia and Jason are complete opposites. Jason cracks jokes and takes nothing seriously, and Julia is serious about everything and even walks around with a pocket version of Shakespeare. The only dreamy part of Julia is her long-time crush on her so-called meant-to-be, Mark. Jason finally manages to get Julia to go to a party with him, and Julia starts receiving romantic texts from a mystery person. This sparks a journey around London on a search for Julia’s secret crush.

What I loved most about this book was the tour around London and the UK. In the pages of this novel , you get to read about many of the important places in Shakespeare’s life. Laugh-out-loud funny at times, this cute and witty romance will make you see that sometimes the most unexpected things are really meant to be.

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