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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han (2014)

SubgenreYA Romance
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SettingNew York City
CSM age13

Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentMild
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

Deception

Protagonist archetypes

Coming-of-Age Protagonist

Synopsis

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day that her sister Kathrine, secretly mailed the letters and Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

Tags

ContemporaryHigh SchoolFamily DramaEpistolary Elements

Is To All the Boys I've Loved Before appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

A wholesome YA contemporary romance about a shy teen whose secret love letters are accidentally mailed, featuring innocent crushes, first kisses, and family dynamics with no mature content.

What to know going in

This book has no graphic violence, mild sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include deception.

Who'll love this

Teens will love this sweet, relatable story about navigating crushes, friendship, and learning to be brave about your feelings.