He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band s show. It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (With: Rachel Cohn)

Love, joy, and these stories will linger. So, enter their lives and prepare to welcome The Realm of Possibility open to us all. David Levithan plumbs the depths of teenage emotion to create an amazing array of voices that readers won t forget. These are just a few of the captivating characters readers will get to know in this intensely heartfelt new novel about those ever changing moments of love and heartbreak that go hand in hand with high school. Enter The Realm of Possibility and meet a boy whose girlfriend is in love with Holden Caulfield a girl who loves the boy who wears all black a boy with the perfect body and a girl who writes love songs for a girl she can t have. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us. Most of the limits are of our own world s devising. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within The Realm of Possibility. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. Everything around us was once deemed impossible.

Here’s what I know about The Realm of Possibility it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. After all, being in love at high school is a challenge for any teen regardless of sexual preference! Witty, engaging, refreshingly upbeat and slightly surreal, David Levithan’s debut has been attracting glowing reviews in the USA. Meet Paul’s friends: JONI his best friend, who may not be his best friend any more TONY his other best friend who can’t leave the house unless his parents think he’s going on a date! with a girl INFINITE DARLENE homecoming queen AND star quarterback in the football team KYLE the ex boyfriend who won’t go away RIP the school bookie who sets the odds And NOAH the boy who changes everything. Gay his whole life, and finding love as wonderful, confusing and heartbreaking as every other teenager in his high school. They all got mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best! And whether your heart is strictly ballroom or bluegrass punk, the dance floors are open to whatever you have to offer. ‘There isn’t really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town.

Are We There Yet? by David Levithan