Frustrated with the rivalry between her high school’s soccer and football teams, Lissa organizes the athletes’ girlfriends together in a sex strike. The strike, though, becomes more than a means to an end, as both the guys and girls learn about themselves and their relationships. As with her previous novel, The Duff, Kody Keplinger brings [...]

Tags: dating, feminism, high schools, retelling, sex
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Following up Hate List, a book that explores how people heal in the aftermath of a school shooting, Jennifer Brown tackles another tough subject in Bitter End. Alex’s mom died when she was young; her dad dismisses her mom as crazy and doesn’t bring the topic up much. He doesn’t bring up much of anything [...]

Tags: dating, domestic abuse, family problems, friendship, grief, high schools
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Anna expects her 16th summer to be like every other. She lives on an island off the Georgia coast; every summer tourists flock to the beach locale and Anna helps her family serve them ice cream by day and then hangs out with her friends by night. While she enjoys her work creating and dishing [...]

Tags: beach, coming of age, dating, identity, social classes, summer, sweets
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When Clara and Christian meet at a basketball game, they have instant chemistry. Things progress quickly, and soon they are spending almost all their time either with each other or talking to each other. It doesn’t take long, though, before Christian’s love turns into obsession, and what once was a fun high school relationship takes [...]

Tags: beach, dating, emotional problems, family life, grief, identity, mental illness, summer
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Arranged marriages are history, right? The kind of thing that only happens in movies. Or maybe still in India. But not in America. And not to Jasbir. Jasbir, known as Jazz by her friends, is shocked and upset when her parents tell her that they will be setting her up with a husband. After all, [...]

Tags: dating, family life, race, road trip, secrets, social classes
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