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Lisa’s official website is here, and her Live Journal blog is here. It’s totally cool hearing about all her books and her writing journey. Scholastic did a series of wonderful interviews with Lisa that are not to be missed. Today’s Special: Glitterati Gumbo (guaranteed to induce delicious fantasiesĪbsolutely Maybe may be purchased through IndieBound or your favorite online bookseller. What are you waiting for?īe sure to check out. Now, in honor of Lisa, put on your sunglasses, grab a taco, and slurp some souperstar soup. Who are her true friends? More importantly, if she’s not the charm school beauty queen her mother wants her to be, just who is she? There are many life lessons to be learned for this determined, spunky, resourceful main character who eventually comes into her own - Kool-Aid dyed hair and all. She does meet her former stepfather and his girlfriend, but is hurt and betrayed when she sees Hollywood’s documentary. What else? Finding her real birth father is not as easy as she thought it would be. She is traumatized by the idea of babysitting triplets, stops for some tacos (my kind of book!), and ends up working at Taco Truck #4, where she proves to the owner and herself that she’s capable of creating some pretty awesome stuff. Her mom, who goes through men like Kleenex, takes her scuzzball boyfriend’s side after he tries to rape Maybe, so she’s left no alternative but to run away from home. She takes to the road with her friends Hollywood and Ted, hoping to find her real father, whom she thinks is a famous movie producer.Īfter they get to California, her friends get in the groove right away. Hollywood, who’s been accepted to the USC film school, starts working on a documentary, and Ted finds a job and moves in with the famous Gloria de la Tour.

Phew! This book is coming out just in time ever since I finished Good Luck, Ivy!, I’ve been suffering from serious Lisa withdrawal, simply wanting more more more from this Sid Fleischman Humor Award winner.Īnyway, Maybe’s life is pretty tough. That’s right, the former Miss America and author of the wildly popular Millicent Min, Girl Genius Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time So Totally Emily Ebers and Good Luck, Ivy!, has written a funny, touching young adult novel about 16-year-old Maybe (short for Maybelline), who hitches a ride from Florida to California, where she discovers just what she is made of. Levine Books, 2009), penned by the one and only Lisa Yee! Woo Hoo!!ĪBSOLUTELY MAYBE by Lisa Yee (Arthur A. Today, we are celebrating the official release of Absolutely Maybe (Arthur A. Everyone, it’s time for some whistles, cheers, and big time whoops!!

Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee