First Love Language by Stefany Valentine

First Love Language

Stefany Valentine

Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · January 14, 2025

A Romance pick for readers exploring First Love Language.

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Who it’s for
A warm, easy-entry romance pick for a sustained, immersive read.
Genres
Contemporary YA Romance, Asian American YA, Death & Grief for Teens
Published
Penguin Young Readers Group, January 14, 2025

About this book

Two teens discover that love defies the boundaries of any spoken language in this debut romantic dramedy about finding love and reconnecting with your culture in the most surprising ways. A WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD FINALIST Taiwanese American Catie Carlson has never fit in with her white family. As much as she loves her stepmom and stepsister, she yearns to understand more about her culture and find her biological mother.

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So Catie is shocked when an opportunity comes knocking on her door: Her summer spa coworker, Toby, says he’ll teach her Mandarin. In exchange, she needs to teach him how to date so he can finally work up the courage to ask out his crush. The only problem is that Catie doesn’t actually have any dating experience. But she can fake it. With her late father’s copy of The Five Love Languages and all his annotated notes, Catie becomes the perfect dating coach. Or so she thinks. As she gets dangerously close to Toby and to finding out what really happened to her biological mom, she realizes that learning the language of love might be tougher than she thought. Stefany Valentine’s debut novel is both a fresh, fun romance as well as a profound, luminous story about grief, family, transracial adoption, and what it means to truly follow your heart.

Warm Romance

A warm, easy-entry romance pick for a sustained, immersive read.

Come here for

  • warm contemporary romance
  • category-search friendly, easy to settle into

Expect

  • Asian American YA lens
  • multicultural contemporary romance

Where it sits

Contemporary YA Romance54%
Death & Grief for Teens44%
Asian American YA39%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Blended Family Stories
  • Romantic Comedy for Teens
  • Death & Grief for Teens
Authors
Stefany Valentine
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
January 14, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
YA Blended Family Stories