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excellent book. the way it is written lets you see both sides of the story. this book would be extremely helpful for kids- it shows that something that means one thing to you might not mean the same to someone else. it also shows what happens when you do not speak up for what you think is right... good read! great story.

This is a really great read! I could not put it down! I took it everywhere I went, whenever I had some spare time I was reading this book. You can really relate to bryce when Julie is chaseing after him, and he wants to run, but then you can also relate when he ends up falling for Julie!! It also has a nice ending, with a little surprise twist.

The first time Juli Baker saw Bryce Loski's blue eyes that day he moved in across the street from her in second grade, she lost her usually intelligent mind. She spent the next 6 years chasing after him. Not 2 hours after moving into the house across from Juli's, Bryce knew she was dangerous. He spent the next 6 years trying to avoid her, and yet not being able to, because Juli Baker was everywhere, doing everything, often perfectly.

Their middle school years clash between a destroyed sycamore tree, Juli's homegrown chickens and their eggs, Bryce's widowed grandfather, and family problems and secrets. By 8th grade, Juli pegs Bryce as a shallow jerk. She is so over him. Meanwhile, Bryce sees something in Juli that he has never noticed before. Is it the way she talks about beauty and nature like an adult? Is it the way she reminds Bryce's grandfather of his spirited dead wife? Eighth grade will be one flipped year for the two of them.

This book is charming, funny, and well-written. Both middle and high schoolers alike will be able to empathize with the main characters and connect with their teenage language.

I couldn't wait to write a review about half way through this book stating how much I was annoyed with it and it's alternating chapters. After I got into the story however, I realized how much it was really needed. The different points of view really made me realize how much people are different and how much I was just like Juli when it came to being googley eyed over a boy and maybe just how annoyed he got with me. It really is a cute and very real book.

To me this is a real life lessons book. There is so much that can be taken from this book, from the two perspectives it is told from, the changes in life that bring you to who you are, the compassion for your fellow human being. All this wrapped up in a fourth grade level book that I am truly hoping my daughter will read. I think the book is spectacular, if it doesn't give you some self introspection then read it again. To me there was so much more than a budding romance between two second graders.

Read this book with my 12 year old daughter. It was nice to have a book to read together that was age appropreate.