The future is anything but certain in this alternately funny and
heartbreaking contemporary story about food trucks, festivals, and first
loves.
It's easy to look at high school senior Oscar Olsson and think: lost.
He hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with
college. But Oscar is anything but lost---he knows exactly what he wants
and exactly how to get it. Oscar and Farfar, the Swedish grandfather
who's raised him, run a food truck together selling rullekebab and
munkar, and Oscar wants to finish school so he can focus on the food
truck full-time.
It's easy to look at Mary Louise (Lou for short) Messinger and think:
driven. AP everything, valedictorian in her sights, and Ivy league
college aspirations.
When Lou hijacks Oscar's carefully crafted schedule of independent
studies and blocks of time in the Culinary Lab, Oscar is roped into
helping Lou complete her over-ambitious, resume-building service
project-reducing food waste in Central Adams High School. While Lou
stands to gain her Girl Scout Gold Award, Oscar will be faced with a
mountain of uneaten school apples and countless hours with a girl he
can't stand.
With the finish line in sight, a relationship he never expected, and
festival season about to begin (for good), the unthinkable happens, and
Oscar's future is anything but certain.