# This Is My Brain in Love

**Author:** I. W. Gregorio
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2020
**Page count:** 321
**ISBN-13:** `9780316423847`
**ISBN-10:** `031642384X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/this-is-my-brain-in-love
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A Schneider Family Book Award winner! A Bank Street Best Book of the Year! Told in dual narrative, This Is My Brain in Love is a stunning YA contemporary romance, exploring mental health, race, and, ultimately self-acceptance, for fans of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter and Emergency Contact. Jocelyn Wu has just three wishes for her junior year: To make it through without dying of boredom, to direct a short film with her BFF Priya Venkatram, and to get at least two months into the year without being compared to or confused with Peggy Chang, the only other Chinese girl in her grade. Will Domenici has two goals: to find a paying summer internship, and to prove he has what it takes to become an editor on his school paper. Then Jocelyn's father tells her their family restaurant may be g

## Where this book is assigned

### Schneider Family Book Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2021 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2021 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2021 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2021 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)

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