Other editions of book The Last Lesson

Is it possible to be 'just friends' with a girl? Absolutely. Best friends. You can even be ballroom partners. As long as you don't do anything stupid. FYI: Waking up one day and realizing too late that you're in love with your ballroom girl counts as doing something stupid. Especially if she's head-over-heels taken by somebody else. Then the best option is to walk away and forget it ever happened. Because nothing did, and nothing will. But what if she needed you to stand by her? Really needed you, as her closest friend? What kind of love would that take? The Last Lesson is a story about a boy who keeps secrets from a girl with high walls, and the truth about things that matter. Fans of Rainbow Rowell and John Green will enjoy this quiet coming-of-age love story.

Is it possible to be 'just friends' with a girl? Absolutely. Best friends. You can even be ballroom partners. As long as you don't do anything stupid. FYI: Waking up one day and realizing too late that you're in love with your ballroom girl counts as doing something stupid. Especially if she's head-over-heels swooning for somebody else. Then the best option is to walk away and forget it ever happened. Because nothing did, and nothing will. But what if she needed you to stand by her? Really needed you, as her closest friend? What kind of love would that take? THE LAST LESSON is about a boy who keeps secrets, a girl with high walls, and the truth about things that matter. A gently bittersweet coming-of-age story about first love.

Monique is everything to him: a ballroom partner, a cooking buddy, a laugh-until-your-stomach-hurts best friend, a safe person to sit with after high school and talk to about everything, except one topic. He's crazy about her. And she has no idea. He won't ever tell her, either, if he has a choice. He can't. It would never be the same again, and he can't stand to lose her that way. They're too close. She means too much to him. Secrets can only keep so long. But Monique has secrets of her own, secrets that may cost them their friendship and worse, unless he can find the strength to set aside his feelings - or perhaps, embrace them.