Polestar
Available: 03/17/05
4 1/4 x 7 · 304 pages
978-1-55192-779-4
CDN $11.95 · pb

Ages 14 and up

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The Cure for Crushes

(And Other Deadly Plagues)

Karen Rivers

Here is the fabulous follow-up to bestseller The Healing Time of Hickeys. Haley Andromeda Harmony is now in her final months of high school and must face the inevitable question: What happens next? Finding the answer isn’t easy. For one thing, having a real boyfriend is causing a strange reaction: Haley has crushes on nearly every other boy she meets. As well, her dad gets a job and starts dating, and Haley misses the life they had before he moved his Much Younger Girlfriend (MYG) into their ramshackle house. From bungee-jumping in winter to supporting best friend Jules at auditions for the TV show “Who’s the Prettiest of Them All?,” Haley’s TGYML 2 (“the greatest year of my life, part two”) has more than its fair share of mishap-filled adventures.

Praise for The Healing Time of Hickeys, which was shortlisted for the CLA Young Adult Book of the Year:
“This wickedly funny novel should come with the warning: Do not read in any public place where breaking out into gales of hysterical laughter may yield undesirable results.” —Canadian Children’s Book News

“Readers will quickly grow attached to Rivers’s hypochondriacal narrator.” —Publishers Weekly

Karen Rivers (Victoria, B.C.) has published seven books for young adults and teens. See www.karenrivers.com.