AustLit

'It was a new level of loserdom, even for me

'When Rosie humiliates herself in front of the whole school at the swimming carnival, she vows she'll never step foot in the water again.

'Well, until Jake Owen, the best swimmer (and hottest boy) in her year says he will give her swimming lessons.

'Against all the voices in her head screaming that it's a bad idea, she takes him up on his offer.

'As the pair bond over failed freestyles and parental pressures, they learn more from each other than they ever could have anticipated.' (Publication summary)

'The day I created a boy started out like any other.

'Katie didn't mean to create a boy. A boy like a long-lost Hemsworth brother: six-foot tall with floppy hair and eyes like the sky on a clear summer's day; whose lips taste like cookie dough and whose skin smells like springtime.

'A boy who is completely devoted to Katie.

'He was meant to be perfect.

'But he was never meant to exist.' (Publication summary)

'You know all those movies where teenagers have, like, THE SUMMER OF THEIR LIVES? This summer is probably not going to be that.

'The last thing sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin thought she’d be doing this summer is entering a beauty pageant. Not when she’s spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone. Not when her Dad is AWOL for Christmas and her gorgeous older sister has returned to rock Maisie’s shaky confidence. And her best friend starts going out with the boy she’s always loved.

'But Maisie’s got something to prove. As she writes down all the ways this summer is going from bad to worse in her school-assignment journal, what starts as a homework torture-device might just end up being an account of how Maisie didn’t let anything, or anyone, hold her back…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.