Being named part of a perfect couple when Brody and I were dating other people was embarrassing. Brody had dated Grace Swearingen the whole summer, and I’d been with the yearbook editor, Kennedy Glass, for a little over a month. Brody and I had been voted Perfect Couple That Never Was. A few weeks ago, on the first day of school, our senior class had elected the Superlatives-like Most Academic, Most Courteous, and Least Likely to Leave the Tampa/St.

My gaze fell from the poster to my computer display, which was full of my pictures of Brody Larson. King did, and protest injustice, like Tank Man did.Īnd be swept away by romance, like that nurse. Descriptions in my history textbook read like old news, but these photos made me want to stand up for people, like Dr. Oakley had told us a picture was worth a thousand words, and these posters were his proof. On the wall directly above my computer screen, a World War II sailor impulsively kissed a nurse in Times Square on the day Japan surrendered. Over by the windows, a lone man stood defiant in front of four Chinese tanks in protest of the Tiananmen Square massacre. waved to thousands who’d crowded the National Mall to hear his “I Have a Dream” speech, with the Washington Monument towering in the distance. What if this match made in hell is the perfect couple after all? ExcerptįAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS WALLPAPERED MR. But they feel so changed from making the effort, they can’t forget each other. If they’re the perfect couple, this shouldn’t be so difficult! Soon it becomes clear their class was wrong, and they throw in the towel. The trouble is, though they’re attracted to each other, they have a hard time getting along or even communicating well. Yet they find themselves drawn together-first by curiosity about why the class paired them, then by an undeniable bond. And ever since the senior class voted her and star quarterback Brody “Perfect Couple That Never Was,” her friends have been pushing her to ask Brody out.īrody doesn’t lack female admirers, but Harper can't see herself with him. Her parents’ bitter divorce left her wondering what a loving relationship looks like.

But her own life is anything but picture perfect. In this second book in The Superlatives trilogy from Endless Summer author Jennifer Echols, Harper and Brody think they’re an unlikely match-but the senior class says they belong together.Īs yearbook photographer, Harper is responsible for those candid moments that make high school memorable.

Endless Summer by Jennifer Echols