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I Now Pronounce You Someone Else Kindle Edition

by Erin McCahan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The teen-girl fascination with weddings comes to fiction in this hilarious debut, as 17-year-old Bronwen Oliver plots her escape from her family . . . by marrying into someone else's.

Here Comes the Bride -- If She Can Pass Chemistry.Seventeen-yaer-old Bronwen Oliver has a secret: She's really Phoebe, the lost daughter of the loving Lilywhite family. That's the only way to explain her cold, manipulative mother, distant stepfather, and good-for-nothing brother: Bronwen must have been switched at birth, and she can't wait to get back to her real family.Then she meets Jared. He's sweet, funny, everything she wants - and he has the family Bronwen has always wanted too. When he proposes fourth months after they meet, she says yes. But as the wedding day approaches, Bronwen begins to wonder if Jared is truly what she needs. And if he's not, she has to ask: What would Phoebe Lilywhite do?

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Grade 9 Up—Bronwen Oliver has spent most of her life convinced she was switched at birth. After all, she isn't blond, she detests ketchup, and she has no desire to be Homecoming Queen. She is so convinced that she belongs to another family that she invents an alter ego, Phoebe Lilywhite, her "true self." Her friend Kirsten even calls her Pheebs. She's having coffee with Kirsten the day after prom, explaining why she broke up with her boyfriend, when a stranger comes in and asks if she's Phoebe Lilywhite. He turns out to be Jared Sondervan, a high school friend of her older brother's, who remembers that she told him her Switched at Birth theory years before. So begins her relationship with Jared and his family—the kind of family she hasn't had since her father was killed in an accident when she was very young—and she finds herself becoming someone else: not Bronwen, not Phoebe, but "Us"—Bronwen and Jared. Fortunately, at the 11th hour, Bronwen realizes that she wants to find out who she is before she becomes Jared's wife. Lively and light, McCahan's novel covers that time period of high school and college when young adults try on and discard personalities in search of their true selves. It should appeal to fans of Meg Cabot and Maureen Johnson.—Suanne Roush, Osceola High School, Seminole, FL
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This debut novel offers a coming-of-age story with surprising twists and turns. High-school senior Bronwen’s favorite daydream is that she was switched at birth and really belongs with another, more accepting family. She loves her boyfriend, Jared, whose family feels like the one in her fantasy, but she wants to wait until they are married to have sex. Then Jared proposes, and as the teens begin to plan an elaborate beach wedding, Bronwen’s questions about both the past and future begin to surface. Told mainly in dialogue, this first-person narrative about the complexities of family and commitment will grab teens. Grades 8-11. --Hazel Rochman

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003SNJ8V8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arthur A. Levine Books; 1st edition (June 21, 2010)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 21, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1911 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 276 pages

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I write books, hang out with friends, take long walks with my husband, cater to my cats, ignore my phone when it rings (too much anxiety) and absolutely have to talk during television shows and movies. Also, I bump into things -- big things, stationary things like walls and furniture -- all the time, and, yes, it hurts. I say it's because I walk fast. My husband says it's because I'm clumsy.

LOVE AND OTHER FOREIGN WORDS is my second novel, which was optioned by Warner Bros., and is being published in 12 languages. Also, it was named one of the Best Summer Books, 2014, by Publishers Weekly and is a Junior Library Guild selection.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2010

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I cannot begin to explain how much I enjoyed this book. I breezed through it in no time, and enjoyed every single page of it. This is a great tale of young love, coming-of-age, and discovering who you truly are. Erin McCahan managed to write a teen story that was thoughtful, meaningful, and full of fun, all at the same time.

Browen is such a unique and fun character. She never really fit in with her family and would picture a fantastical family coming to claim her as her own. She even gave herself a fake name. When she meets Jared, they begin a whirlwind romance that was so sweet. Jared is a great male lead! So sweet, smart, and romantic. Any young girl would have fallen for him (I know I did!).

I really felt connected to this book and the characters involved. Browen reminded me so much of myself when I was her age. I was engaged my senior year, with a wedding planned the same month as hers. All of her fears and doubts were ones that I had as well. I didn't have the family problems she had, but her love life was like a blast from the past.

Overall this was a fantastic book that kept me engaged and excited to find out what would happen. The romance made my heart flutter and I completely fell in love with the characters. I can't wait to read more by Erin McCain and I recommend this book very highly

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2011

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4.5/5
I love this book. I love it so much. Everything about it, really, even the parts that almost made me cry. (Which is something of a feat, I will admit, because I don't cry easily.)
Bronwen Oliver is the main character. Only she doesn't want to be Bronwen Oliver, she wants to be Pheobe Lilywhite, or Bronwen VanHorn, or maybe Bronwen Sondervan, She doesn't particularly get along with her mother, which is understandable because her mother doesn't try very hard and doesn't like to talk about things. She got along with her step-father at one point but is mostly just a little distant with him now. Her father died when she was little, but she isn't stuck on it even if she misses him. And she sees Jared Sondervan again, who is an old friend of her brother. Oh, and her brother Peter is Jesus, at least in her mothers mind.
Bronwen is trying to find herself, and accept who she is and trying to deal with that her mother won't accept who she really is. I'm a bit more cynical than she is, or a lot, really, but I still felt a connection with her. She's already figured out the relationship thing. You know, the one that says relationships are always good in the first few months, and you don't really get to know a person until that phase is over, and so you shouldn't say you love them until then. In the beginning of the book, she goes through this type of thing with Chad Dykstra, who just wants to have sex with her and so claims to love her. She doesn't fall for it, and I liked that.
She has a best friend, Kirsten, who gushes over everything with her. She's also very wary about Bronwen and Jared's relationship, and she talks about it with Bronwen. It might cause some problems between them, but I still liked this about her. Because she's a really good friend. (And, yea, I'm a bit envious.)
A big thing goes down near the end with Bronwen's Mother and Whitt, her step-father. Her Mother is kind of really terrible. I have a mother somewhat similar, not nearly as bad, but similar in the not listening thing. But I kind of hate her, especially because of what she did to Bronwen and Whitt. Whitt, however, is kind of awesome. He's sweet and he cares and he's funny. And it's not his fault for what happened, it's her Mothers.
Now, Jared. I love Jared. So much. He's so very sweet. And he loves Bronwen. They get along so well, too. The conversation between them is so easy, and he just goes along with all of her jokes and makes his own. They're just so cute together. He holds back kissing her for a while, and he wants to get to know her, and he loves her and wants to marry her. I love him, and I love their relationship. I want their relationship. As well as Jared's family. They care and are fun and love Bronwen like she's their own.
This book is very much about finding love as it is finding yourself. Because Bronwen finds herself, accepts herself, and she falls in love with Jared. There's a part near the end with Jared that almost made me cry, because it's so sad and I love them and they need to be together, but I know it was coming and it needed to happen because they weren't ready. But it's still heartbreaking to read.
The writing in this book is in Bronwen's point of view in the future, so she's talking about it all as she remembers it. It adds to the element of her learning all of these things. It's very smooth and calm and a bit heartbreaking.
I love this book. So very much, as I've already said. I have a bit in common with this book, and I would love to have even more in common with it. (Like Bronwen and Jared's relationship.) I think just about every teenage girls should read this book, it is that good.
Sidenote: One thing that bothered me about this book, was what it says on the back cover/inside flap, about 'if she can pass chemistry', because that's very misleading. School has very little to do with this book. It starts at the end of her junior year, then goes into the summer, and then through her senior year, and yea there's a bit about her going to college. But that doesn't have a whole lot to do with her relationship with Jared. Where she's going to college does, but she's already pretty set on that, and there isn't anything about her not passing. Very little of time is spent with her even at school. The cover is cute, though, even if the books don't have a lot to do with the story.

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I really enjoyed this unique novel. It was sweet and I think relate-able.

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016

This book in some ways felt more eerily real than other YA books I've read. The issues and struggles felt like something the author actually experienced. It's good but for a while also kind of heart wrenching to read about two sweet kids who really do love each other dash down a path that you know neither is ready for. Usually in books there is a "good" guy and "bad" guy but no one really fits that as everyone is just a little bit messy.

I appreciated that the author gave us a MC who wanted to wait till marriage for sex. It's not that I think authors should only write these kinds of characters for a moral message. Rather, I sometimes feel left behind with all the MC's who are sexually adventurous or are looking to cast off their virginity as something to be shed or embarrassed by. As a teen I would have related better to this MC so I'm glad for diversity's sake that the author made her how she did. She also did it in a way that didn't feel preachy or looking down on girls who choose other paths.

Some of the issues the couple faces I could see because of their age and stage differences. I also saw inside the main character to see her desperate search for a family and place to fit into. All were done well without totally villainizing anyone. Even the mother who we as readers are going to have troubles with, at the end she does commit to family therapy.

I'm glad that the book ended on a happy note. It made me feel good and left a smile on my face.

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