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Gr 9-Up Because of her father's academic career, Beatrice Szabo's family has moved multiple times, most recently from Ithaca, NY, to Baltimore. In order to protect herself from the emotional fallout caused by the constant moves and her parents' troubled relationship, she has invented a cold, emotionless persona for herself called Robot Girl. When she begins her senior year at a small private school, she enters a class where the students have known one another since kindergarten. She finds herself drawn to outcast Jonas Tate, ak...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

When Bea's professor father takes a new position, she starts her senior year "in a new city at a small private school where all the other kids had known each other since they were three." Bea's wooden compliance with the move (and life's imperfections in general) leads her mother to dub her a robot. Still, Bea manages to connect with Jonah, a prickly fellow insomni...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

At her new school, Bea connects with prickly Jonah. Their friendship truly starts when Jonah discovers that his brain-damaged twin, who sup...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Bea and Jonah’s complicated relationship—particularly the way Bea feels both relieved and disappointed that they aren’t boyfriend-girlfriend—feels v...Log In or Sign Up to Read More