Still corresponding through her blog with her friends who live across the country, thirteen-year-old Raisin records her hopes and worries as she tries to obtain her first kiss from the long-lashed and cinnamon-scented CJ Mullen.
Rhyming text explores what would happen if animals kissed like humans do, from a slow kiss between a sloth and her cub to a mud-happy kiss from a hippo calf to his father.
Zibby Payne is excited when she gets the lead role of a famous soccer player in her school play, until she learns the script includes a kiss with a boy.