THIS IS WHAT HAPPY LOOKS LIKE, by Jennifer E. Smith

The story: a typo delivers an unexpected email to Ellie O'Neill from a fun and funny guy on the other side of the country, and an online correspondence is born. Ellie is soon looking forward to the daily, even hourly, messages from GDL. It's unlike any friendship she's ever had: she doesn't even know his name. For Graham, getting to know a girl without first telling her his name is a big plus…because it's a name she already knows, and most girls can't get past it. When fate brings a movie shoot to her small town, Ellie could never have dreamed it was because teen heartthrob Graham Larkin planned it that way--and by the time she figures it out, it may already be too late.

June Cleaver's book ratings: Language: PG-13; Violence PG; Nudity PG; Sexual Content PG; Substance abuse G; Magic & the occult G; GLBT content G; adult themes (adultery and illegitimacy) PG-13; overall rating, PG.

Liz's comments: Jennifer E. Smith's YA romance novels are charming, and much less angst-ridden than many others of the same type. There's a girl, there's a boy, there's a problem that makes it look like nothing can work out between them--but with just the right amount of serendipity, everything turns out at the end. The few swear words sprinkled in are so unexpected that, though mostly mild, they come as quite a surprise in an otherwise very PG novel. I would even give this one to 6th grade girls…because if you go to a middle school, you've heard those words before anyway.