To commemorate Megan McCafferty’s Sloppy Firsts turning a “bittersweet 16,” as protagonist Jessica Darling might say, I wrote about my love for the book and its sequels for the BN Teen blog.
I wasn’t old enough to meet Jessica “Not-So” Darling when she first arrived on the scene in 2001—the fictional protagonist of the eponymously named series was 15, and I was only 11—but thankfully Megan McCafferty’s Sloppy Firsts was waiting for me when I got to high school. And I fell in love.
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