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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief teen romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of friendship, first jobs, and the particular social world of early-90s suburban America
What this book is about
Cassie Worthy is spending the summer working at the Parkway Center Mall in 1991, navigating a summer job, a complicated crush, and the specific social world of the American mall. Megan McCafferty's nostalgia novel is warm, funny, and precise about its era — a love letter to the particular culture of the suburban mall as a social institution before the internet changed everything.
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