KNYGA Angela Velez Tangled Roots & Wild Dreams

Never Have I Ever meets Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute in this hilarious and moving YA coming-of-age about a girl juggling way too many lies, one very off-limits crush, and a secret summer internshipall while steering clear of the dreaded f-word: her future.Ezzie Ramos is a champion secret keeper. Her brilliant-professor mami and nosy abuelita dont know about her daily ritual (wandering the art museum), her college applications (hopelessly blank), or her summer plans (avoiding the dreaded f-word, a.k.a. her future, at all costs).Ezzies biggest secret? Shes interning at Sprout, the urban garden shes stunned to discover her father founded weeks before his death. All she knows about Papi begins and ends with his dazzling scientific research legacybut what if he dreamed of a different path too?With seven weeks to uncover who Papi really was, Ezzie must chase down every lead, even if it means tangling with Sprouts star volunteer, Gabe McCalister, who couldnt be more off-limitsor distractingly cute. But as Ezzie begins to put down roots at Sprout, she learns that secrets, like seeds, have a way of growing toward the light. . . .