{"product_id":"vegan-virgin-valentine-isbn-9780763621551","title":"Vegan Virgin Valentine","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things\u003c\/i\u003e comes the racy story of an overachiever who learns to get over it — and get a life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMara Valentine is in control. She's a straight-A senior, a vegan, and her parents' pride and joy. She's neck-and-neck with her womanizing ex-boyfriend for number-one class ranking and plans to kick his salutatorian butt on her way out the door to Yale. Mara has her remaining months in Brockport all planned out, but the plan does not include having V, her slutty, pot-smoking, sixteen-year-old niece — yes, niece — come to live with her family. Nor does it involve lusting after her boss or dreaming about grilled cheese sandwiches every night. What does a control freak like Mara do when things start spinning wildly out of control? With insight, authenticity, and a healthy dose of humor, Carolyn Mackler creates an evolving Type A heroine that every reader will recognize — and root for.Featured as a giveaway\u003cbr\u003e—YA Reads.com\u003cb\u003eCarolyn Mackler \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things\u003c\/i\u003e.My mom must have read my mind. \"No vegan options?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I nodded. \"It's so annoying.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Do you ever think about not eating vegan?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I shook my head. \"I don't think I'll ever eat meat again. Eggs still gross me out, too.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"So you think about dairy?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Cheese,\" I said. \"I think about cheese sometimes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Talk about understatements! I CRAVE cheese. I LUST after cheese. I DREAM about cheese.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"You know, Mara,\" my mom said, \"sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever. And you know what I've realized as I've gotten older? There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I think she was referring to the whole vegan thing, but as she spoke, something else was flooding my brain. No, not something. Someone. Someone with a chestnut ponytail and an easy smile and a hole in the thigh of his faded jeans. Someone who would not leave my thoughts no matter how many times I tried to evict him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVEGAN VIRGIN VALENTINE by Carolyn Mackler. Copyright (c) 2004 by Carolyn Mackler. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.","brand":"Candlewick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300598501605,"sku":"NP9780763621551","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780763621551.jpg?v=1767743389","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/vegan-virgin-valentine-isbn-9780763621551","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}