YOUNG ADULT AUTHOR
always served with a side of romance
BOOKS
SUMMER 2025
YOU STARTED IT
When 17 year-old Jamie is unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend of three years, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even if that means fake-dating a younger TikTok dancer who at first glance couldn't be more different than Jamie.
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SOMETHING MORE
A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school, for fans of Jenny Han and Samira Ahmed.
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ABOUT JACKIE
JACKIE KHALILIEH is a Palestinian Canadian writer with a penchant for Samoyeds, to-do lists and staying up way too late. She is passionate about positive representation within her writing. Something More, her debut YA novel, was shortlisted for the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award, as well as the Snow Willow Award, and was selected for several Best of 2023 lists, including the New York Public Library and Audible Books Canada among others. She resides just outside Toronto, Canada, with her husband and two daughters, continuing to complain nightly about having to cook dinner.
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