Stephanie Perkins. (2014). My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Stephanie Perkins. 2014. My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.

Stephanie Perkins. My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.

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   • bioText: Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of speculative and fantasy novels, short stories, and comics. She has sold over 26 million books worldwide, and her work has been translated into over 30 languages and adapted for film. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library. Book of Night is her adult fiction debut.
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   • bioText: Gayle Forman is an investigative journalist who's traveled the world to report for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Glamour, Elle, Details, Travel & Leisure, Budget Travel, Jane, and Seventeen. Gayle and her husband, Nick Tucker, are back at home (for now) in New York City with their baby daughter, Willa.
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Twelve romantic holiday stories by twelve bestselling young adult authors edited by Stephanie Perkins.
If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, Laini Tayler and Kiersten White), edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins.
Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.

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     "Rich language and careful, efficient character development make the collection an absorbing and sophisticated read, each story surprisingly fresh despite the constraints of a shared theme. It's that rarest of short story collections: There's not a single lump of coal."

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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
   • content: "There's no shortage of cozy setups for holiday romance in this captivating collection of short stories...a rare seasonal treat."
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   • source: Booklist (starred review)
   • content: "Holiday canoodling stories by twelve of the top YA authors? It's a Christmas miracle! This is the substantive stuff of dream stockings: a rollicking, blush-inducing, memorable holiday collection of breezy, bite-sized stories perfect a snug evening next to the fire."
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   • source: School Library Journal (starred review)
   • content: "Never mind the winter holidays; booktalk this title all year round."
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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "This collection of holiday stories reminds readers that while the season can be painful, it's also a time of hope. It's a marvelous collection, certain to earn a treasured spot on many Y.A. shelves."
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   • content: "My True Love Gave to Me is a plummy treat... Its best stories are worth savoring long past the seasonal expiration date and even beyond the teen years."
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     Starred review from September 15, 2014
     Cute boys, mistletoe, counting down to the midnight kiss on New Year’s Eve—there’s no shortage of cozy setups for holiday romance in this captivating collection of short stories by a dozen of today’s top YA authors. Readers will also find a broad cross-section of other emotions and relationships in these tales about the significance of varied holiday traditions. Jenny Han delivers a fantasy-tinged entry about a Korean girl left as an infant in Santa’s sleigh, who is now the only human girl at the North Pole (and crushing on a cute elf). Kelly Link delves into supernatural territory, featuring a mysterious Christmas Eve visitor in an elegantly embroidered coat. And the Jewish narrator of David Levithan’s story undertakes a wild nighttime mission, donning a Santa suit to help preserve a sense of Christmas magic for his boyfriend’s young sister. A rare seasonal treat. Ages 13–up.

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     Starred review from September 15, 2014
     Holidays meet romance in a Christmas- and Hanukkah-themed collection featuring some of teen fiction's most prominent names. A Latino NYU student, running out of food while catsitting during winter break, meets a white upstairs neighbor whose shower is broken in Matt de la Pena's "Angels in the Snow." In David Levithan's "Your Temporary Santa," a gay Jewish teen plays Santa for the benefit of his boyfriend's kid sister. Kelly Link's "The Lady and the Fox" shows the goddaughter of an intimidating English matriarch battling a set of magical rules to free a ghostly family member who only appears on Christmas. Although the majority of characters are white, Christian and straight, clearly attention has been paid here to the call for greater diversity in teen fiction. The setting of the romances varies greatly, from a chaotic trailer-park New Year's party to a kitschy diner in a tiny "census-designated place" called Christmas, California, to Santa's North Pole workshop, where his adopted daughter dreams of a boy she met following his route. Rich language and careful, efficient character development make the collection an absorbing and sophisticated read, each story surprisingly fresh despite the constraints of a shared theme. It's that rarest of short story collections: There's not a single lump of coal. (Short stories. 12-18)

     COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Starred review from October 1, 2014
     

     Gr 7 Up-Twelve of the best-loved and best-known young adult authors-Rainbow Rowell, David Levithan, and Matt de la Pena among them-have contributed stories to this appealing collection. Most have a Christmas setting, but Hanukkah, the winter solstice, and New Year's Eve are also represented. Most are realistic, but Holly Black, Kelly Link, Jenny Han, and Laini Taylor have contributed tales steeped in fantasy or the supernatural. What all 12 selections have in common is teen romance at its most fragile and meaningful. Never mind the winter holidays; booktalk this title all year round.-Virginia Walter, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

     Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from October 15, 2014
      Grades 9-12 *Starred Review* Holiday canoodling stories by 12 of the top YA authors? It's a Christmas miracle! Not since 2008's Let It Snow (by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle) has a compendium of wintry love stories given readers such reason to celebrate. Using her trademark sparkling dialogue, Rainbow Rowell rings in an amorous New Year's between old pals. Matt de la Pea presents a house sitter hookup with unlikely results. Jenny Han writes tales of woe and lust between Santa's adopted daughter and her coworker elves. Stephanie Perkins pairs a tree-lot employee with a shopper who pines for much more. David Levithan's Jewish St. Nick loves his boyfriend enough to (reluctantly) spread some X-mas magic. Holly Black's hot Christmas Krampus crashes a swinging holiday soiree. Kiersten White whips up a delicious romance in a struggling Yule-themed diner. And several other big-name writersAlly Carter, Gayle Forman, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Laini Taylorcraft cozy, clever tales of good tidings. This is the substantive stuff of dream stockings: a rollicking, blush-inducing, memorable holiday collection of breezy, bite-size stories perfect for a snug evening next to the fire.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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      November 1, 2014
      Holiday romance is the connecting link for the twelve tales included in this highly enjoyable anthology by a dozen well-known young adult authors, including Rainbow Rowell, Matt de la Pea, David Levithan, Gayle Forman, Laini Taylor, and Stephanie Perkins. The short stories feature teen protagonists of different races, sexual identities, and ethnicities confronting various obstacles and insecurities in their pursuit of new love amidst celebrations of Hanukkah, Christmas, Winter Solstice, New Year's, and even Krampuslauf. And in keeping with the spirit of the season, the eclectic collection of stories -- some fantastical, some realistic -- all end with hopeful, if not always happy, endings. cynthia k. ritter

      (Copyright 2014 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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      January 1, 2015
      Holiday romance connects the twelve tales in this enjoyable anthology by well-known YA authors, including Rainbow Rowell, David Levithan, Laini Taylor, and editor Perkins. 
The stories feature teen protagonists of different races, sexual identities, and ethnicities confronting obstacles and insecurities in pursuit of new love amidst winter holiday celebrations. The eclectic stories--some fantastical, some realistic--all conclude with hopeful, if not always happy, endings.

      (Copyright 2015 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.

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