Caterpillar Girl & Bad Texter Boy (GN 1)
Title: Caterpillar Girl & Bad Texter Boy
Volume: GN 1
Pages: 176
Distributor: Yen Press
Release date: 2018-07-19
Suggested retail price: $13
Age rating: 13 & up
ISBN-13: 9781975327484 9781975327484
Description:
When a beautiful girl asks her childhood friend out, his response is a shocker: "You're too perfect." What's a girl to do, except transform into a giant caterpillar and try, try again?
(added on 2018-01-12, modified on 2018-01-12)
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