Title: Julien Parme
Description: "Meet Julien Parme - famous lover, adventurer, and immortal novelist. Or perhaps, at almost fifteen, he's more Quixote than Casanova or Tolstoy. The party of the year is tonight, and Julien has been grounded by his mother, who's off anyway with her creep of a boyfriend. Julien plans simply to make some excuse for his no-show, but then he finds out the boyfriend has been promoted to fiance;, and that he may be sent out of the way to boarding school. All bets are off. Julian decides it's time to leave home and childishness behind, and take off - into the Paris night, and maybe beyond. He heads to the party, where he hopes to find his lady fair, Mathilde, but en route encounters his first love, Madame Thomas, the French teacher. After a moving farewell, he takes his leave and finally reaches the party. And the night has only just begun ..."--Publisher description.
Subjects: Children of single parents, Fiction, Stepparents, Teenage boys, Adventure stories