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WHY WE BROKE UP

Why We Broke Up
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Handler
Author's First Name: 
Daniel
Illustrator's First Name: 
Maira
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Kalman
Publisher: 
Little, Brown
Publication Month: 
December
Publication Date: 
2011
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Min Green and Ed Slaterton were in love, and now they're not. Min, having been dumped, is now dumping back a box of relationship ephemera on Ed's porch, each item attached to part of a long letter explaining how each one contributed to their breakup. Illustrated with the objects in the box. Fourteen and Up.

A box full of “stuff”—bottle caps, matches, a toy truck—is actually the remnants of an unlikely love affair.  Item by item, high school junior Min explains to basketball co-captain Ed why their bittersweet romance is over.