Always One More Time

Always One More Time

Grades Grade 7 & Up
Ages 12 and up

What if one wrong number dialed you into the right person’s heart? From the bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star comes a romance about looking for your person—with help from a boy who doesn’t believe in love.

Tallie’s life sometimes feels like one long missed connection. She never knew her mom, who died the day Tallie was born. And seven months ago, Tallie spent five magical hours with Thomas, a boy who felt like her soulmate, only for them to get separated. Life spins on, but she knows there’s an unfinished love story out there, waiting for her.

Now Tallie’s facing something even bigger: the same heart condition that killed her mom. In forty-nine days, she’ll have the surgery that could save her—or end her story forever. Determined to live before she dies, Tallie decides to track down Thomas. She finds his phone number and sends a text . . . but the wrong boy replies.

Owen is sarcastic, witty, and complicated, and nothing like the sunny, cheerful boy she thought she wanted. But he offers to help her search. And the more time they spend together, the more Tallie wonders if the connection she’s been chasing has been right in front of her all along.

From the bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star comes a once-in-a-lifetime romance about the magic of a perfect almost and the miracle of an accidental always.

★ "Another Yoon page-turner that belongs on YA shelves everywhere. Heartstrings will be pulled, swoons and tears will be engaged, and readers will not put this one down without a fundamental shift to their hearts." —School Library Journal, starred review

★ "A heartfelt, layered story of unexpected connections, complicated families, and finding love in surprising places." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“A page-turning, originally structured, and heartbreakingly beautiful story about living in the moment, accepting life’s gifts after missed connections, and letting our hearts guide us. Nicola Yoon is the queen of love stories that remind us to live like each day might be our last.” —Alex Aster, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lightlark Saga

“Nicola Yoon returns to remind us that love is everywhere, just waiting for us to find it.” —Tahereh Mafi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series

“The queen of star-crossed romances returns with a miraculous wonder of a novel. Always One More Time is swoony, witty, and Nicola Yoon’s most profound love story.”—Adam Silvera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End

ISBN 9781524719005 (Hardcover)
Published on Feb 2, 2027
Published by Delacorte Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Age Range 12 and up
Grade Grade 7 & Up
Reading Level Lexile: 710L

ISBN 9781524719012 (Hardcover Library Binding)
Published on Feb 2, 2027
Published by Delacorte Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Age Range 12 and up
Grade Grade 7 & Up
Reading Level Lexile: 710L

ISBN 9781524719029 (Ebook)
Published on Feb 2, 2027
Published by Delacorte Press
Pages 320
Age Range 12 and up
Grade Grade 7 & Up
Reading Level Lexile: 710L

ISBN 9798217414475 (Audiobook Download)
Published on Feb 2, 2027
Published by Listening Library
Age Range 12 and up
Grade Grade 7 & Up
Reading Level Lexile: 710L

Nicola Yoon

NICOLA YOON is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Instructions for Dancing; Everything, Everything; and The Sun Is Also a Star, and is a coauthor of Blackout. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Award recipient, a Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner and the first Black woman to hit #1 on the New York Times Young Adult best-seller list. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures. She’s also the copublisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the novelist David Yoon, and their daughter.

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