Wicked Groovy

by Lauren Courcelle

Overview

A five-minute crush makes one heck of a momentary impression on a person, but the odds that their paths will cross by happenstance again are slim to none. Persephone Smith remembers her favorite five-minute crush. He was gorgeous and taught her slang only to get off at his T stop and never be seen again. Would she even recognize him if their paths did cross?

Of course, she would.

But what are the odds that a boy from Boston will just be traipsing along the leaf-strewn paths on Vermont U's campus?

In Persephone's charmed life? Pretty good. But being distracted from her freshman year of college is the absolute last thing she needs to happen right now. All the better time for a five-minute crush to pop up and throw her plans completely by the wayside.

Join Persephone and her RA, suitemates, fellow first-year students, family, and a couple of long-forgotten faces from the past as she trades in everything associated with her small-town hometown for her big shot at the independence of college life.

Suffice to say, nothing goes according to her plan.

Wicked Groovy is the eighth book in the Persephone Smith series by author Lauren Courcelle. Whether readers selected Wicked Alpha or Wicked Omega as their lead-in to Persephone's college years, Wicked Groovy picks up the very next day.

Welcome to college, intrepid readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538031070
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/26/2020
Series:	Persephone Smith , #8
Pages:	542
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Lauren Courcelle has lived in Vermont all of her life. As a child, she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up (because she liked to write on the chalkboard), but as a teacher, she realized that being able to have a daily impact on students, particularly when inspiring them to become lifelong lovers of literature, was the best part of the job. She left the field for a few years to try her hand at phlebotomy, and although she rarely missed veins, she certainly missed her students and yearned to share great children's books with them once again. Her aspirations were bigger than merely reading to young people; she wanted to write for them, too, so in May 2011, she pursued her dream of writing a picture book. Nearly 400 pages later, a chapter book, surprisingly, emerged from her efforts. That book was Wicked Normal. With it, Lauren immediately knew that protagonist Persephone Smith's story would be told via a twelve-book series. Having heard that traditional publishers frowned on authors marking their debut with a series, she opted to self-publish her first novel. She released the second book, Wicked Weird, less than six months later. The third, Wicked Awesome, was published within a year of the first. The fourth book of the series, Wicked Dramatic, marked Persephone's last year of middle school and the series' final "Middle Grades" novel, appropriate for precocious, younger readers (Ages 9+). When Lauren, herself, was in seventh grade, she stopped reading because the library ran out of books she wanted to read. Her librarian recommended a YA selection, but its content was too mature for her liking, so she returned it and didn't check anything else out. Consequently, the first four books of her debut series were crafted with her seventh grade self in mind - oodles of pages, lots of humor, tons of fun, the influence of Karmic magic, an abundance of innocence, colorful covers, and, of course, the occasional unicorn - without sugarcoating what it's truly like to be that age. Once readers are ready for YA (Ages 13+), Wicked Confessions, Wicked Together, Wicked Alpha, and Wicked Omega will be waiting with the tale of Persephone's high school years. From there, the final five books journey to college and beyond, beginning with Wicked Groovy. Lauren continues to reside in Vermont and enjoys going to concerts, knitting scarves, making beaded jewelry, painting, and spending time with her family.