Anna and the French Kiss
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?
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Sent against her will to a Paris boarding school for her senior year, Anna spends a homesick September discovering the city, the patisseries, and a charming, taken classmate named Etienne St. Clair.
Stephanie Perkins's loosely connected trilogy has three books: Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Isla and the Happily Ever After. Each follows a different couple and can be read on its own, though characters cross over.
Yes. Anna and the French Kiss is YA contemporary romance, suitable for readers 13 and up. There is no explicit content. The Paris setting and slow-burn romance made it a defining title of the early-2010s YA romance wave.
Anna and the French Kiss was written by Stephanie Perkins, published in 2010 by Penguin Publishing Group.
Anna and the French Kiss is 378 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Anna and the French Kiss takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Anna and the French Kiss is a standalone novel by Stephanie Perkins, not part of a series.
Anna and the French Kiss is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
