"Triple Shot Bettys in love" was a book about two girls who work in a coffee shop (neither one of them is named Betty. Their names are Geena and Amber actually.) Geena is a very smart girl with a perfect boyfriend named Ben, whom she has been going out with for 5 months. Amber is completely head over heels with Geena's English teacher, Mr. Sands. Geena just may have a crush on him to, but she doesn't know what to do about it because of Ben. When a crazed, mean model makes a play for Ben, Geena sees her chance to do something about her crush, but will she?
Drowning Instinct is about the way a girl named Jenna gets in over her head and is also helped out of the water. Jenna's life is awful; her parents are borderline abusive, her mother is a drunk and her father is a private monster. Her teacher, Mr. Anderson, helps her and makes her feel loved. And oh, how he loves her. He loves her more than anyone else ever has. As her family dissolves farther, Jenna relies more and more heavily on his love, but does she know everything? Is she a victim of a teacher, or a star crossed lover?
Lola and the Boy Next Door is a novel about the way younger versions of a person influence the way that person lives their life. In Lola's case, she fell in love very early with a boy named Cricket. His sister's budding gymnastics career separated them and created some misconceptions about his and Lola's relationship, breaking Lola's heart in the process. He moves away right after that. This book is written three years down the line from those events, and we see the aftermath of Lola's broken heart.
This collection of short stories is a look at situations that homosexual youth face in America. Although there are some coming out stories, it more focuses on stories of the finding out for yourself moment, rather than the tell people moment. This is a welcome change from most stories of gay teens, which heavily stress what society things of the person rather than what the person thinks of themselves. There are about an equal number of stories about girls and boys, another change from other books about gay youths.
Plan B by Charnan Simon is a book about the challenges and roadblocks teenage pregnancy can put in the way of an otherwise successful and responsible teen. The plot follows the story of a junior girl named Lucy who is at the top of her class, a really good dancer, popular, and of course has a handsome boyfriend to top it all off. She and her boyfriend have long term plans to go to the same college and get married and live their lives out together in a picture perfect manner. Of course, none of these plans include getting pregnant at 16!
Always a Witch, the sequel to the acclaimed novel Once a Witch, depicts a young witch named Tamsin, her witchy family, and the antics a magical teenager can get herself into. The basic plot line is mostly about the rivalry between Tasmins family (the Greenes) and the evil other witch family living in New York City at the time. Tasmin must go back in time to make sure that history doesnt get all screwy like her family predicts that it will. She employs herself in the evil household and makes nice with the 1800s version of the family she hates, all to save her family.
