DJ's grandmother is a former fashion model who has restored an old mansion and turned it into a boarding house for rich teenage girls who are interested in fashion, presenting DJ with a conflict between retaining her tomboy identity or changing her style, as she decides whether or not to try to fit in. Book 1 of the Carter House Girls. Entire series now in the library!
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.
Sophomore iconoclast Cindy Gold publishes an anti-prom letter in her high school newspaper, but when she develops a crush on her SAT tutor, on top of the ones she already has on popular senior Adam Silver as well as a boy she has been exchanging instant messages with, she begins to doubt her own convictions.
Andy, happy that he survived freshman year and is going to Hawaii during summer vacation, is upset when his father decides to send him to his aunt and uncle's farm in Wisconsin instead, but after arriving and making friends with a girl who is confined to a wheelchair, Andy begins to think the trip may be worth while.
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