Age: 7th-9th grade

14-year-old Sophia can't quite get a hold of real love. She's doing puppy love just fine with her current boyfriend but she's craving something more, something not so boring. She can't discover what it is until a Halloween dance puts a masked debonaire in her hands as she loses herself in his sweeping movements. Left only with the haunting image of his forearms, Sophia cannot manage to identify her suitor amidst her classmates. Until a trip to the city bumps her into the outcast Murphy and they connect on a level not felt before by Sophia. Along with the romance, Sophia must deal with her detached parents and tell her friends her seemingly embarrassing secret.

Captures teen hormones and angst well, mixed in with teens' emerging appreciation of poetry as a means of expression.