Book jacket image for This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

Scholastic

9781338827118

STARRED REVIEW

This Time It’s Real

Though romance is a key element,true focus of This Time It’s Real is Eliza’s process of becoming a fuller, braver version of herself.

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Review of ‘This Time It’s Real’

Thanks to her mom’s successful career at a global consulting firm, 17-year-old Eliza Lin is used to starting over, but she’s tired of becoming “attached to people only to grow apart” when she inevitably moves again. So when she has to post a personal essay to a student-run blog at her new…

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