Rules for Rule Breaking

Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors who are repulsed by each other but are forced to go on a northeast college campus tour together. They discover themselves on a journey of self-discovery, breaking all the rules and realizing they are perfect together.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 11 March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers

Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art. They, however, are repulsed by each other. Winter is MIT-bound, comfortable keeping people at arms length, and known by others as responsible, though she has a desire to let loose. This probably comes from her rebel grandmother, who is constantly pushing boundaries and encouraging Winter to do so as well. Winters best friend is moving abroad and won't be attending college at all, and Winter is wrestling with what it means to be left behind. Bobby is as Type-A, anxious, and risk-averse as you can get. He's also been recently dumped, which has him feeling disoriented and untethered. That's why, when Winter's and Bobby's parents insist that they go on a northeast college campus tour together, both teens find reasons to accept, even though the idea of being stuck in a car together for 700 miles sounds unbearable. What awaits them is a journey of self-discovery, and the only rule on their road trip is to break all the rules. At first, this happens in hilariously calculated ways (using lists and reason and logic!), but they soon abandon that, challenging each other to dares in Virginia, getting high and wandering around Philly for food, and battling the subsequent digestive distress, and crashing a party in Cambridge. And, of course, realizing that they're perfect together.

Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art.

They, however, are repulsed by each other.

Winter is MIT-bound, comfortable keeping people at arms length, and known by others as responsible, though she has a desire to let loose.

This probably comes from her rebel grandmother, who is constantly pushing boundaries and encouraging Winter to do so as well.

Winters best friend is moving abroad and won't be attending college at all, and Winter is wrestling with what it means to be left behind.

Bobby is as Type-A, anxious, and risk-averse as you can get.

He's also been recently dumped, which has him feeling disoriented and untethered.

That's why, when Winter's and Bobby's parents insist that they go on a northeast college campus tour together, both teens find reasons to accept, even though the idea of being stuck in a car together for 700 miles sounds unbearable.

What awaits them is a journey of self-discovery, and the only rule on their road trip is to break all the rules.

At first, this happens in hilariously calculated ways (using lists and reason and logic!), but they soon abandon that, challenging each other to dares in Virginia, getting high and wandering around Philly for food, and battling the subsequent digestive distress, and crashing a party in Cambridge.

And, of course, realizing that they're perfect together.

Weight: 404g
Dimension: 216 x 146 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780593624753