Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
A year and a half ago, I read Anna and the French Kiss by the same author. Loved it. My awesome school librarians told me there were two sequels, and I finally got around to the first one.
This one takes place in San Francisco, and the lead girl is, as the title indicates, Lola. Lola is an only child of two gay men. She's a senior in high school, and dating a "boy" who is five years older than she is. Her dads can't stand him.
One day, at the end of the summer, her former neighbors move back into their house. Twins live there. Calliope is a bitchy figure skater, and Cricket is the boy Lola has loved for forever. As Lola and Cricket reacquaint themselves, this causes some turmoil in Lola's life. She breaks up with her douchey boyfriend because she finds she likes herself better when she is with Cricket.
Sweet story. One of my favorite things about this book is that Anna and Etienne from the book that this is a sequel to are in this one as well. They work with Lola.
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