![]() ![]() However, she accidentally falls into a cheerful circle of friends who accept her constant Anna Karenina references with open arms. ![]() And so, Mary Malcolm-Porter is thrust into Millville High with nowhere to turn. She resigns herself to spending most of her time alone at local bookstores, including one called Tome Raider (great name). In the summer before her sophomore year, she learns that her liberal alternative high school didn’t receive enough funding. She knows them better than anyone else, except, perhaps, her eccentric family. If she wants a happy ending IRL, she’ll have to write it herself. As her best intentions go up in flames, Mary discovers life doesn’t follow the same rules as fiction. Unfortunately, Mary is better at dishing out advice than taking it-and the number one bad boy on her list is terribly debonair. So when a girl at her new high school nearly succumbs to the wiles of a notorious cad, Mary starts compiling the Scoundrel Survival Guide, a rundown of literary types to be avoided at all costs. By the Book charts a high school sophomore’s journey from a small, artsy school into the wilds of public education, with classic novels as her guide.Īs a devotee of classic novels, Mary Porter-Malcolm knows all about Mistakes That Have Been Made, especially by impressionable young women. ![]()
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