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You started it / Jackie Khalilieh.

Khalilieh, Jackie, (author.).

Summary:

"Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special night for the two of them at the upcoming Winter Formal. But then Ben arrives back home after a summer away with an unthinkable announcement: he wants to break up. And when Jamie discovers him with Olivia Chen the next day, she is determined to get him back. Even if that means fake dating the younger, curly-haired, TikTok dancer Axel Dahini, whose bicycle she accidentally ran over. Though she and Axel have nothing in common aside from their shared Arab heritage -- she's a messy, type A with anxiety; he's carefree but meticulous -- their forced time together brings them to better understand one another. And for Jamie, it just might mean learning that not all experiences or people need to be crossed off a list"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781774884751 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 326 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Tundra Book Group, [2025]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes playlist.
Subject: Dating (Social customs) > Juvenile fiction.
Deception > Juvenile fiction.
High school seniors > Juvenile fiction.
High schools > Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
Multiracial teenagers > Juvenile fiction.
Palestinian Arabs > Canada > Juvenile fiction.
Dating > Fiction.
Deception > Fiction.
High school seniors > Fiction.
High schools > Fiction.
Identity > Fiction.
Multiracial teenagers > Fiction.
Palestinian Arabs > Canada > Fiction.
Toronto (Ont.) > Juvenile fiction.
Toronto (Ont.) > Fiction.
Genre: Young adult fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Stroud Branch YA Khali 31681010419828 YADULT Available -

  • B & T Entertainment
    Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year involving boyfriend Ben, but Ben announces he wants to break up, so Jamie fake dates TikTok dancer Axel Dahini to get back at Ben, and although they have nothing in common, the two grow closer. Simultaneous eBook.
  • Penguin Putnam
    Better Than the Movies meets Olivia Rodrigo's Sour in a new YA romance novel from Something More author, Jackie Khalilieh.

    Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special night for the two of them at the upcoming Winter Formal. But then Ben arrives back home after a summer away with an unthinkable announcement: he wants to break up.

    And when Jamie discovers him with Olivia Chen the next day, she is determined to get him back. Even if that means fake dating the younger, curly-haired, TikTok dancer Axel Dahini, whose bicycle she accidentally ran over. 

    Though she and Axel have nothing in common aside from their shared Arab heritage — she's a messy, type A with anxiety; he's carefree but meticulous — their forced time together brings them to better understand one another. And for Jamie, it just might mean learning that not all experiences or people need to be crossed off a list.

    "You Started It is honest, wise, and wholeheartedly romantic, starring a cast of endearingly flawed characters who feel like real friends. A total delight." —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda

    “A true joy to read. Earnest and effortlessly charming, You Started It embodies everything I adore about YA rom-coms. Jackie Khalilieh has such a talent for writing nuanced characters you can’t help but laugh with, cry with, and root for.” —Ann Liang, New York Times bestselling author of I Hope This Doesn’t Find You

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