Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781524716110)

The future is anything but certain in this alternately funny and heartbreaking contemporary story about food trucks, festivals, and first loves.

It's easy to look at high school senior Oscar Olsson and think: lost. He hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. But Oscar is anything but lost---he knows exactly what he wants and exactly how to get it. Oscar and Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, run a food truck together selling rullekebab and munkar, and Oscar wants to finish school so he can focus on the food truck full-time.

It's easy to look at Mary Louise (Lou for short) Messinger and think: driven. AP everything, valedictorian in her sights, and Ivy league college aspirations.

When Lou hijacks Oscar's carefully crafted schedule of independent studies and blocks of time in the Culinary Lab, Oscar is roped into helping Lou complete her over-ambitious, resume-building service project-reducing food waste in Central Adams High School. While Lou stands to gain her Girl Scout Gold Award, Oscar will be faced with a mountain of uneaten school apples and countless hours with a girl he can't stand.

With the finish line in sight, a relationship he never expected, and festival season about to begin (for good), the unthinkable happens, and Oscar's future is anything but certain.

Author: Jared Reck
ISBN-10: 1524716111
ISBN-13: 9781524716110
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.91w x 1.26d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 515786 / Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2021
School Library Journal 07/01/2021 pg. 73

About the Author
Jared Reck is also the author of A Short History of the Girl Next Door. He lives in Hanover, Pennsylvania, where he's an eighth-grade Language Arts teacher. Learn more about Jared on Twitter at @ReckJ.