Lauren Myracle

As high school graduation nears, Wren Gray is surprised to connect with gentle Charlie Parker, a boy with a troubled past who has loved her for years, while she considers displeasing her parents for the first time and changing the plans for her future.

Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.

Darya must decide what to wish for as her Wishing Day approaches.

When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.

Throughout their senior year in high school, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another about their day-to-day experiences as they consider college, sex, the importance of prom, and the inevitable end of their inseparable trio.

Seven-year-old Ty Perry is glad when his best friend, Joseph, returns to school after spending time in a hospital, but does not like that everyone else wants to be Joseph's friend now, and things only get worse when his plan to get a pet for his baby sister fails.

Publisher Annotation: Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and "wins" at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he?s given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe ? oh god, please ? he?s beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high...

Seventh-grader Alli inadvertently arrives on the first day of school with underwear static-clinging partly outside her pant leg.