Joy to the Girls: A She Gets the Girl Novella

Getting the girl was easy, but can Alex and Molly keep each other when they're both keeping secrets? Find out in this cozy holiday novella companion to She Gets the Girl!

For Alex and Molly, the last three years have felt like Christmas every day. So what better way to celebrate winter break of their senior year than a romantic getaway in a town right out of a Christmas card?

Aside from sampling all the holiday cheer Barnwich has to offer, Alex and Molly have an important mission this weekend: to help their friend Cora get her crush to fall for her. But in between ice skating, snowball fights, and matchmaking schemes, it becomes obvious that Alex and Molly have another mission this weekend: to not reveal the huge secrets they're keeping from the other. Secrets about their post-college plans that threaten to tear them apart.

Will these two be able to help Cora get the girl and keep theirs--or will this be the last Christmas of Alex and Molly's love story?

Author: Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/30/2025
Series: She Gets the Girl
Pages: 176
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9781665963930


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 09/01/2025 pg. 69

About the Author
Rachael Lippincott is the coauthor of All This Time, #1 New York Times bestseller Five Feet Apart, She Gets the Girl, Make My Wish Come True, and Joy to the Girls and the author of The Lucky List and Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh. She holds a BA in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Pennsylvania with her wife, daughters, and dog, Hank.

Alyson Derrick is the coauthor of New York Times bestseller She Gets the Girl, Make My Wish Come True, and Joy to the Girls and the author of Forget Me Not, which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's literature. She was born and raised in Greenville, Pennsylvania. Alyson currently resides in Pennsylvania with her wife, daughters, and dog, Hank.