From New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia comes a hilarious, big-hearted, imperfectly perfect YA rom-com about two quirky teens falling in love for the first time while figuring out how to be themselves and embracing all their mistakes and mishaps along the way.

Each book will be signed by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia and come with an embroidered “Love is so awkward” patch.

Erin Entrada Kelly is a New York Times bestselling author and has won a multitude of awards for her work including the Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space. She is a professor of children’s literature in the graduate fiction and publishing programs at Rosemont College, where she earned her MFA, and is on the faculty at Hamline University. She lives in Philadelphia, PA.

Kwame Mbalia is a husband, father, writer, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a former pharmaceutical metrologist, and the publisher of Freedom Fire—an imprint from Disney-Hyperion, featuring stories of Black resilience and joy. His debut middle grade novel, Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, was a New York Times bestseller and awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner now in North Carolina, he survives on Dad jokes and Cheezits.