OLDER FICTION
Durrant, Sabine

Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles

(4) YA British teen Connie Pickles daydreams of living in Paris as "Constance de Bellechasse." Instead, she's stuck in a cramped flat with her harried mother and two stepsiblings. In her diary, Connie details her plan to find a proper (and prosperous) man for her mother. Packed with intricate scheming, Connie's diary is a little too polished to be convincing.

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