Copyright © 2019 by Kasie West

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: West, Kasie, author.

Title: Maybe this time / Kasie West.

Description: First edition. | New York: Scholastic Press, 2019. | Summary: Sophie Evans works for the local florist and party planner in her small southern town, so she attends all of the big “events,” all the time sketching and dreaming of applying to design school; but this year there is a fly-in-the-ointment of her life—Andrew Hart, son of the fancy new chef in town, who is also at all the local events, and keeps getting in her way, making her life more complicated.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018053895 | ISBN 9781338210088

Subjects: LCSH: Man-woman relationships—Juvenile fiction. | Interpersonal relations—Juvenile fiction. | Special events—Planning—Juvenile fiction. | Dating (Social customs)—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. | Love—Fiction. | Parties—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.W51837 May 2019 | DDC 813.6 [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018053895

First edition, July 2019

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eISBN: 978-1-338-21010-1

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