Perfect Chemistry 

by Simone Elkeles

This is your typical love story between the girl who seems like she has it all, Brittany Ellis, and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Alex Fuentes.  It does not start like that, these two couldn't be more different, so they thought. Her family is rich and lives in a big house, while he's in a gang only to protect his family, and lives in a small house where he shares his room with two of his younger brothers.  How do they end up together, you ask, chemistry of course--the class that is, when they are partnered by the teacher to work on an assignment.  We will learn that Brittany's life is not as perfect as it seems and that this is not the life Alex would have chosen for him had he had other options.  This is a nice story, yet the writing of the characters is a bit stereotypical, and a kind of cheesy ending.  Read what brings these two different characters together and will their love survive the test of time?