You say it first / Katie Cotugno.
One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for is some privileged rich girl preaching the sanctity of the political process. So he says the worst thing he can think of and hangs up. But things don't end there. That night on the phone winds up being the first in a series of candid, sometimes heated, always surprising conversations that lead to a long-distance friendship and then, slowly, to something more. Across state lines and phone lines, Meg and Colby form a once-in-a-lifetime connection. But in the end, are they just too different to make it work?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062674128
- ISBN: 0062674129
- Physical Description: 352 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 13 510101.
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- Long-distance relationships > Fiction.
Teenagers > Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Fiction.
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- Romance fiction.
Young adult fiction.
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- 22 of 26 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | YA FIC COTUGNO (Text) | 36015001793799 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bath Community Library | YA FIC (Text) | 38344101693073 | Young Adult Fiction | Checked out | 07/31/2026 |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | YA COTUGNO (Text) | 37807000019090 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Columbus Library | YA F COT (Text) | 31250200079425 | Young Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/10/2026 |
| Edneyville Branch | COT (Text) | 33258009861183 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Fairview Library | YA COT (Text) | 0020512648757 | Young Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/04/2026 |
| Fletcher Branch | COT (Text) | 33258009461117 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | YA Cotugno, Katie (Text) | 0112521609844 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | YA Cotugno, Katie (Text) | 0112522915404 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | YA FIC Cotugno Katie (Text) | 30519010578386 | Young Adult Fiction | Reshelving | - |
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Summary:
One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for is some privileged rich girl preaching the sanctity of the political process. So he says the worst thing he can think of and hangs up. But things don't end there. That night on the phone winds up being the first in a series of candid, sometimes heated, always surprising conversations that lead to a long-distance friendship and then, slowly, to something more. Across state lines and phone lines, Meg and Colby form a once-in-a-lifetime connection. But in the end, are they just too different to make it work?
