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Two across / Jeffrey Bartsch.

by Bartsch, Jeffrey.

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Grand Central Publishing, c2015.

Teenagers -- Fiction.

Trust -- Fiction.

Forgiveness -- Fiction.

Spelling bees -- Fiction.

Spelling ability -- Fiction.

Crossword puzzle makers -- Fiction.

293 p. ; 22 cm.

"TWO ACROSS is a funny and poignant debut novel about trust, forgiveness, and the wisdom of listening to your heart. Stanley and Vera, academically precocious but awkward teenagers, form a bond when they tie for first place in the National Spelling Bee. Though their mothers have big plans for them-Stanley will become a senator, Vera a mathematics professor-neither wants to follow these pre-determined paths. So Stanley hatches a plan to marry Vera in a sham wedding for the financial freedom to pursue his one true love: crossword puzzle construction. In enlisting Vera to marry him, he neglects one variable: she's secretly in love with him, a fact that dooms his plan to disaster. Once he's lost her, Stanley tries to atone for his mistakes and win her back using coded messages in crossword puzzles-but can he find her again before it's too late?"--Publisher.

Bildungsromans.

Humorous fiction.

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