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Save Steve

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From Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant—now a movie streaming on HBO Max, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira—comes a twist on the cancer love story that's dark humor mixed with quirky fun. Think Dirty Rotten Scoundrels meets The Fault in Our Stars.

Named a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults nominee!

"This book is packed with humor. Every character is well developed and has their complexities." —School Library Journal

Steve Stevenson is a jerk. That might not be a cool thing to say about someone with cancer, but it's true. Yeah, he throws legendary parties and is the most popular guy in school, but he also loves humiliating pranks and Cardi B, and he doesn't recycle. Worst of all, he's dating Kaia—the girl of nice guy Cam's dreams.

But when a desperate Kaia asks Cam to help her raise money to pay for Steve's experimental treatment, Cam offers to organize the biggest, most viral fundraising campaign. Maybe then Kaia will finally see Cam as the perfect, thoughtful, altruistic, good guy for her.

But Steve's no fool. He's totally on to Cam's plan. And to stop him from stealing his girlfriend, he's going to do whatever it takes to make Cam's life as miserable as his own.

From Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant, comes a quirky, funny story about living up to other people's expectations and what it really means to do the right thing.

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    • School Library Journal

      September 18, 2020

      Gr 9 Up-Cam and his unrequited crush Kaia have one thing in common: they're both activists. They're always trying to save wetlands or sharks in captivity, and Steve is a vegetarian feminist who idolizes Michelle Obama. Not knowing Kaia has a boyfriend, Cam goes to a party, accidentally revealing his crush to Kaia's boyfriend Steve, who acts like a jerk. Cam learns that Steve has cancer and his family is struggling to pay the medical bills. In hopes of winning Kaia over, Cam decides to help Kaia raise the funds to pay Steve's medical bills. Steve is well aware of Cam's motives, and decides to make Cam's life a living hell by hacking into the website and signing Cam up for activities like being rolled around in a giant sphere, wearing a bee beard, and performing in the school's variety show. This book is packed with humor, though at times some of the stunts characters pull feel unrealistic, such as trying to dive into a shark tank. At first, Steve is clearly the jerk, but every character is well developed and has their complexities: Kaia wants to break up with Steve, but doesn't want to break up with the boy who has cancer, and Cam becomes increasingly desperate to separate the two. Hendriks wraps up her novel with an unexpected ending that resolves the romantic plots, but leaves other elements open-ended. Kaia is Latina and Cam and Steve are both white. VERDICT Best suited for collections that are looking to add contemporary novels with outlandish humor.-Liz Anderson, DC P.L.

      Copyright 2020 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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