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Books with title Better Than the Best Plan

  • Better Than the Best Plan

    Lauren Morrill

    Hardcover (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), June 25, 2019)
    Lauren Morrill's Better Than the Best Plan is a fresh, funny, romantic YA novel about a teenage girl who finds an unexpected silver lining in her life when plans get turned upside down.Plans are made to be broken.It’s the last day of junior year, and seventeen-year-old Ritzy―short for Maritza―is pretty sure she has a great plan. Summer job―check. Hang with friends at the beach―check. Keep looking after herself as she’s been doing since her mom bailed to follow her bliss―check. Or no check?After someone reports that Ritzy is living alone, a social worker shows up and puts her into foster care. That’s surprise enough. Even more surprising? Ritzy has been in foster care before, as an infant, and the woman who cared for her then takes her in again. But maybe the greatest surprise of all for Ritzy is that living with her foster mother, Kristin, in Kristin’s gorgeous house, isn’t all that bad. And neither is the cute, friendly boy next door. If Ritzy’s mom hadn’t gotten her back all those years ago, this is the life she could have had. But is it the life she should have had?When Ritzy’s old life catches up with her new one, she has some decisions to make. Can she plan for the worst, but still hope for the best?
  • Better Than the Best Plan

    Lauren Morrill

    eBook (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), June 25, 2019)
    Lauren Morrill's Better Than the Best Plan is a fresh, funny, romantic YA novel about a teenage girl who finds an unexpected silver lining in her life when plans get turned upside down.Plans are made to be broken.It’s the last day of junior year, and seventeen-year-old Ritzy—short for Maritza—is pretty sure she has a great plan. Summer job—check. Hang with friends at the beach—check. Keep looking after herself as she’s been doing since her mom bailed to follow her bliss—check. Or no check?After someone reports that Ritzy is living alone, a social worker shows up and puts her into foster care. That’s surprise enough. Even more surprising? Ritzy has been in foster care before, as an infant, and the woman who cared for her then takes her in again. But maybe the greatest surprise of all for Ritzy is that living with her foster mother, Kristin, in Kristin’s gorgeous house, isn’t all that bad. And neither is the cute, friendly boy next door. If Ritzy’s mom hadn’t gotten her back all those years ago, this is the life she could have had. But is it the life she should have had?When Ritzy’s old life catches up with her new one, she has some decisions to make. Can she plan for the worst, but still hope for the best?
  • Better Than the Best Plan

    Lauren Morrill

    Paperback (Square Fish, March 9, 2021)
    Lauren Morrill's Better Than the Best Plan is a fresh, funny, romantic YA novel about a teenage girl who finds an unexpected silver lining in her life when plans get turned upside down.Plans are made to be broken.It’s the last day of junior year, and seventeen-year-old Ritzy―short for Maritza―is pretty sure she has a great plan. Summer job―check. Hang with friends at the beach―check. Keep looking after herself as she’s been doing since her mom bailed to follow her bliss―check. Or no check?After someone reports that Ritzy is living alone, a social worker shows up and puts her into foster care. That’s surprise enough. Even more surprising? Ritzy has been in foster care before, as an infant, and the woman who cared for her then takes her in again. But maybe the greatest surprise of all for Ritzy is that living with her foster mother, Kristin, in Kristin’s gorgeous house, isn’t all that bad. And neither is the cute, friendly boy next door. If Ritzy’s mom hadn’t gotten her back all those years ago, this is the life she could have had. But is it the life she should have had?When Ritzy’s old life catches up with her new one, she has some decisions to make. Can she plan for the worst, but still hope for the best?
  • The Better-Than-Best Purim

    Naomi Howland

    eBook (Two Lions, Nov. 6, 2012)
    Purim is coming! It’s time for the little old lady to bake better-than-best hamantashen. But when she asks her pets to help, they’re all too busy. What could they be up to? Soon the little old lady will find out! Author-illustrator Naomi Howland’s bright artwork perfectly illustrates this sweet Purim tale.
  • The Better-Than-Best Purim

    Naomi Howland

    Hardcover (Two Lions, Nov. 6, 2012)
    Purim is coming! It’s time for the little old lady to bake better-than-best hamantashen. But when she asks her pets to help, they’re all too busy. What could they be up to? Soon the little old lady will find out! Author-illustrator Naomi Howland’s bright artwork perfectly illustrates this sweet Purim tale.
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  • Better Than Best

    Beverly Lewis

    Paperback (Bethany House Publishers, Aug. 1, 2000)
    Filled with competition fever, Jenna and her gymnastics teammates lose sight of their goal to work as a unit.
  • Better Than Best Purim

    Naomi Howland

    Paperback (Two Lions, Jan. 1, 2012)
    SYNOPSIS: Soon it will be Purim, and it’s time for a little old lady to bake her better-than-best hamantashen. Her pets are all too busy to help her with the baking, but chances are they’ll have time to taste the results of her work. Sound familiar?
  • Better Than Best

    Jim Waite

    Hardcover (Mascot Books, Aug. 7, 2018)
    Do you strive to be your best every single day? Do you help others to be their best? Follow this cute, motivational book as it helps you to become the best version of you that you can be.
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  • Better Than Best

    Beverly Lewis

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback, Aug. 1, 2000)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
  • The Better-Than-Best Purim

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    Unknown Binding (n/a, )
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  • Better than Best: Be Honest

    Jim Waite, Chiara Savarese

    Hardcover (Mascot Books, Oct. 6, 2020)
    Be honest in all that you say and all that you do. Saying and doing right things will reflect back on you. Try to be honest at home, work, and play, So everyone feels better each and every day.
  • The Better-Than-Best Purim

    Naomi Howland

    Paperback (Amazon, Jan. 1, 2002)
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