Anna and the French Kiss (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Anna Oliphant: Anna is the main character in this book. She is a senior in high school and her main goal is to become a famous female film critic. She is strong and I think overall has her heart in the right place. In this book her father makes her go to school in Paris to make him seem more cultured to his famous friends. Anna is very different in some ways and freaks out over the littlest things in Paris.
• Etienne St. Clair: Ettienne is the crush of everyone in Anna's new Parisian school. He has a french father, who he hates, and an American mother which he loves. He was raised in London though so he has a British accent. The girls all have crushes on him even though he has a serious girlfriend, Ellie. He has a love of history and a fear of heights.
• Meredith: Meredith is Anna's new best friend in Paris. She is very creative and a great football (soccer in America) player.
• Rashmi: Rashmi is one of the more minor characters in this book but is still an interesting character. She is Josh's girlfriend.
• Josh: Josh is another friend of Anna's and is the only junior in thier group of friends. He is going out with Rashmi. He is a very artistic person.
• Ellie: Ellie is Ettienne's girlfriend who is in collage.
• Bridgette Saunderwick: Bridgette was Anna's best friend back in Altanta, they were closer than peas in a pod before Anna left. She is an amazing drummer and loves using big words.
• Toph: Toph was Anna's almost boyfriend back in Atlanta that she has to leave behind.
• Dave: Dave is a minor character that dates Anna for a short time but it doesn't work out.

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• “Its the beginning of everything. I look back up. He's smiling. "Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you have come."”

  St. Clair

• “Why are you still with her? "Because I don't want to be alone right now." " You were never alone.”

  Anna to St. Clair

• “Is this her BOYFRIEND?”

  Sean (Anna's little brother) to St. Clair

• “Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?”

  Anna

• “I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”

  Anna

• “How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's -be pulled and stretched and twisted- before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?”

  Anna

• “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let thing upset you.”

• “"Huh?" I have such a way with words. I should write epic poetry or jingles for cat food commercials.”

  Anna

• “‘I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.’”

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• Meretricious. Showily attractive but cheap or insincere.

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• Atlanta, GA

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Lola and the Boy Next Door.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Stephanie Perkins (Author)

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This book is a great read, and would be appropriate for kids 13 and up, because it has to do with relationships. It truly would show a thirteen-year-old what is like to be in a full-on relationship.

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