An Order of Amelie, Hold the Fries by Nina Schindler

He contacts her and, although the girl he contacts is not the girl he saw, the relationship develops. Tim is a seventeen-year-old romantic who believes he has seen the girl of his dreams and he is stunned when she drops a slip of paper containing a name and address as she walks along the sidewalk. It is a convoluted love story which manages to keep the reader guessing until the last page. The characters communicate by e-mail, cell phone, snail mail and odd little notes left here and there.

2003), Annick Press, Ages 12 to 14.Ĭhildren's LiteratureThe format of this book is up to the minute. He is quite young, comes on very strong to someone he doesn't know and she might wonder how thin the line is between lovestruck romantic and weird stalker. While reading the book, one might wonder if most women of Amelie's age wouldn't be leery of Tim in the early days. Amelie, while not the girl he first saw, is the girl he falls for and she must decide between Tim, who is younger than she, and Sebastion, who is urging her to marry. It does not develop smoothly and the ups and downs if charted, would be dizzying. The format of this book is up to the minute. Carolyn Mott Ford - Children's Literature Each page spread is devoted to one message. Synopsis of Order of Amelie, Hold the FriesĪ series of humorous and sarcastic letters, emails, scratchings on take-out containers, newspaper clippings and other inventive exchanges between two teenagers trace a romance.

An Order of Amelie, Hold the Fries by Nina Schindler