# Our Way Back to Always

**Nina Moreno**

To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets Since You’ve Been Gone in this effervescent romance about childhood best friends reconnecting, full of sunny days, warm nights, first kisses, and mended hearts.

**Lou Patterson and Sam Alvarez were inseparable—the best of friends—until the most embarrassing middle school promposal ever.** Now, four years later, Lou is an introverted romantic who’s bearing the weight of her mother’s expectations. Meanwhile, Sam is the golden boy with plenty of friends who’s still mourning the death of his father.

When Lou finds the bucket list she and Sam wrote together as kids, she’s disappointed to see that she hasn’t accomplished a single one of her goals.

> Go to a party? Nope.
> 
> Pull the greatest prank of all time? Still no.
> 
> Learn how to be a really good kisser? Definitely not.

Lou sets out to finish the list, and in a stroke of fate, Sam decides to tag along, stirring up old arguments and some very new feelings.

**But with the bucket list to guide them, Sam and Lou might just be able to find a way toward the future and each other.**

## BINGO CARD PROMPTS

01. Read a book set at the beach  
02. Read a book where the character completes a bucket list  
03. Read a novella  
04. Read a book that starts with 'J'  
05. Attend reading sprints  
06. Read a book featuring ice cream  
07. Read a book published in July  
08. Read a book with disability/neurodivergent rep (It's Disability Pride Month!)  
09. Read a book on your summer TBR  
10. Read a book with your favorite color on the cover  
11. Read a graphic novel, comic, or manga  
12. Read a book set during the summer  
13. Read a romance book  
14. Read a middle grade book  
15. Have a summer treat  
16. Write a book review

## Recommendations

**Disability & Neurodivergent Rep**  
- _Here We Go Again_ by Alison Cochrun _(ADHD)_  
- _Hell Followed with Us_ by Andrew Joseph White (Autism)  
- How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby (anxiety & depression)  
- Someone to Daydream About by Sydney Langford (deaf FMC, MMC w/ ADHD, dysgraphia & dyslexia)  
  
**Graphic Novels**  
- _Magical Boy_ by The Kao  
- _The Chromatic Fantasy_ by H.A.  
- _Homebody_ by Theo Parish  
- _This One Summer_ by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki   
  
**Manga**  
- _Blue Flag_ by KAITO  
- _Dinosaur Sanctuary_ by Itaru Kinoshita  
- _Confessions of a Shy Baker_ by Masaomi Ito (CW: Dieting, calorie counting)  
- _Cat + Gamer_ by Wataru Nadatani  
  
**Summer (Beach) Reads**  
- _Melt My Heart_ by Bethany Rutter  
- _The House of Now and Then_ by Edward Underhill  
- _The Summer of Everything_ by Julian Winters  
- _If You Change Your Mind_ by Robby Weber  
- _Our Way Back to Always_ by Nina Moreno  
  
**Books starting with 'J'**  
- _Just As You Are_ by Cameron Kellogg  
- _Jonny Appleseed_ by Joshua Whitehead  
- _Just Between Us_ by Adeline Kon  
- _Joy, to the World_ by Lisa Bunker, Kai Shappley  
- _Junior High_ by Tegan & Sara  
  
**Books Published in July**  
- Buried Feelings by Kit Rosewater (July 7, 2026)  
- Heartstopper: Volume Six by Alice Oseman (July 2026)  
- Melt My Heart by Bethany Rutter (July 23, 2020)  
  
**Middle Grade books**  
- _The Beautiful Something Else_ by Alder Van Otterloo  
- _The House of Sunrise Lagoon series_ by Nicole Melleby  
- _Glitch Girl!_ by Rainie Oet  
- _Dear Mothman_ by Robin Gow  
  
**Novellas**  
- _Finna_ by Nino Cipri  
- _Peter Darling_ by Austin Chant  
- _Read Between the Lines_ by Bee Medina  
- _Loading...The Machine Child_ by T.T. Wadden  
  
**Romance Books**  
- _The Next Chapter_ by Cameron Kellogg  
- _And They Were Roommates by_ Page Powars  
- _Xeni_ by Rebekah Weatherspoon  
- _The Broposal_ by Sonido Reyes