New Teen Fiction
Pretty things by Sarra Manning.
Brie is in love with Lancôme Juicy Tubes, Louis Vuitton accessories, and Charlie, her gay bestfriend. Charlie is in love with 1960s pop art, 1980s teen movies, and serial heartbreaker Walker. Walker has only ever been in love with his VW Bug, until he meets Daisy. And Daisy is too busy hating everyone to know what love is. Friendships shift and relationship melodrama rules during a summertheater production of The Taming of the Shrew as Brie, Charlie,Walker, and Daisy fall in and out of love and hate with each other. Their four voices alternate throughout the narrative, revealing the delicious inside scoop on each player's secret thoughts and exposing the real person inside, which is always more than the exterior reveals. Pop-culture cool that's brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny.
A room on Lorelei Street by Mary Pearson.
To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must go to extremes to cover expenses.
Tiger Tiger by Lynne Reid Banks.
In Tiger, Tiger, the masterly storyteller Lynne Reid Banks offers a breathtaking view of ancient Rome, its tragedies, and its triumphs.
White girl by Sylvia Olsen.
Until she was fourteen, Josie was pretty ordinary. Then her Mom meets Martin, "a real ponytail Indian," and Josie finds herself living on a reserve outside town, with a new stepfather, a new stepbrother, and a new name-"Blondie." On the reserve, she's White, and most seem to see her only for her blond hair and blue eyes.
Her mother's no help. She never leaves the house, gripped by her fear of the unknown beyond Martin's doorstep. But Josie can't afford to hide out forever. She has to go to school, and she has to get herself a life. And bit by bit, the place itself, the reserve--the run-down houses, the way the people live in them and around them, the forest and the sea--finds its way into her, like nothing else ever has, or ever will.