Lake Park High School Summer Reading 2023: Alex, Approximately

Start reading or listening now on SORA! Just use your Lake Park email address and password to log in from anywhere. You can also read/listen on your phone using the SORA app. 

Check the catalog at East or West campus to see if a physical copy is available. Log in with your Lake Park Google credentials to put a book on hold and pick up in the library. 

...enjoyed The Summer I Turned Pretty, Today, Tonight, Tomorrow, Sunkissed, Love and Gelato or other light contemporary romances.
...you're a fan of 1990s rom-com movies, specifically You've Got Mail (which is actually a remake of the 1940s movie, The Shop Around the Corner).
...are a film buff because there will be extra appeal from the old movie references. 

Classic movie buff Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by “Alex.” Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush.

Faced with doubts (what if he’s a creep in real life—or worse?), Bailey doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown. Or that she’s landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that she’s being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth—a.k.a. her new arch-nemesis. But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is she’s starting to feel for Porter.

And as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is Alex…Approximately.

In this delightfully charming teen spin on You’ve Got Mail, the one guy Bailey Rydell can’t stand is actually the boy of her dreams—she just doesn’t know it yet.