Alex, Approximately

Lover of vintage films Bailey "Mink" Rydell has been smitten for months on "Alex," a clever movie enthusiast she only knows online. Until Bailey moves home with her dad, who lives in the same surfing town in California as her internet infatuation, the adolescents are separated by two coasts.

Bailey doesn't inform Alex that she's relocated to his hometown because she's worried about the possibility that he's a creep in real life—or worse. or that she has secured employment at the tourist trap museum in the area. Or that Porter Roth, the obnoxious attractive museum security guy who has become her new arch-nemesis, teases her every day. However, real life is much messier than in the movies, particularly as Bailey learns to walk the narrow line between love, hatred, and whatever it is she's beginning to feel for Porter.

As the summer progresses, Bailey is forced to make the decision of whether to risk an imperfect reality with Porter or hold onto a romantic online ideal with Alex. Because Porter Roth is keeping a secret of his own—that he is Alex—the decision is both easier and harder than she realises.About.

The one person Bailey Rydell can't tolerate in this endearing adolescent version of You've Got Mail is really the boy of her dreams; she simply isn't aware of it yet.