<DIV>When Shai receives text messages from Marlena, the love of her life, and reads them during class, her dramatic mother finds out what her A-student daughter’s been doing behind her back and kicks her to the curb.<br><BR>Soon Shai becomes involved with an unusual group of friends in exotic Miami. Can a discarded free-thinker turn the corner into a world as wild, hilarious, and painful as her first love?and create a new kind of family?<br><BR>Bella Books is proud to bring the expanded Author's Edition of this best-selling Young Adult classic to print.<br><BR><BR>Booklist *Starred Review*<br><BR>Sun-filled wonderland of friends, choices, broken hearts, honesty, family and love. - Alex Sanchez, Rainbow Boys<BR><BR><BR>Originally published by Harper Teen.</div>