num_pages: 208
description: Seventeen-year-old Rachel Hill is the girl most likely to succeed. And the girl most likely to have everything under control . . . that is until her dad invites Nick McGowan the cutest boy at school to live with them. Rachel worries that this could only be a recipe for disaster but her best friend Zoe thinks its the perfect opportunity for lurve. Sparks start to fly for all the wrong reasons. Nick finds Rachel spoiled and uptight and Rachel dismisses Nick as lazy and directionless. But a secret from Nicks past draws them together and makes the year Nick McGowan came to stay one that Rachel will never forget.
language: English
title: The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers