
First Love Language
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
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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 Romance | 54% |
|---|---|
| Death & Grief for Teens | 44% |
| Asian American YA | 39% |
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