The Girl in the Park

Mariah Fredericks

Schwartz & Wade

The True Meaning of Cleavage

Sari and Jess are best friends and total opposites. They've liked each other ever since they discovered that they are the only two normal people at Eldridge Alternative. As they prepare to face the trials of ninth grade, Sari is psyched. Jess, not so much. How can she face the Prada Mafia, the most evil clique at school? Or Mr. McGuiness's unnervingly long nose hair?
What if something really interesting happens to Sari and nothing whatsoever happens to Jess?
Not even Jess can predict the mayhem when Sari falls madly, psychotically in love with David Cole. 
David is a senior. David is cool. And he's been dating Thea Melendez for forever. So he can't possibly be interested in Sari. Or can he?
Now Jess has a new worry. Because if David is interested in Sari, Sari may not be interested in being Jess's best friend anymore. Cool is cool and geek is geek, and at Eldridge, the two definitely do not mix.

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books

In the Cards: Love (In the Cards, 1)

What if, for once, the losers won out against the über-cools? GeekGirl gets GreekGod? It'd turn the school upside down. But that's what Zoe's World, a website that Eberly's eighth-grade girls check out daily, is suggesting. Only Anna, Eve, and Syd know that the cards—the mysterious tarot deck elderly Mrs. Rosemont left Anna (along with a psycho cat, Mouli) are responsible. Or may be responsible…if you believe in that sort of thing.

Love: Love (In the Cards)

Children's Books

Humor

Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval

Eve knows she’s destined for stardom―something much bigger than a dinky middle school production of Cabaret. She has no intention of auditioning, especially for Mr. Courtney, the music teacher who’s no fan of Eve’s. But when the tarot cards reveal that the musical may be the first step to fulfilling her dreams, she decides to go for it.

In the Cards: Fame (In the Cards, 2)

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Like Fredericks's The Girl in the Park, here is a pause-resisting listen that perfectly captures the world of New York City private schools, as it explores the notion of power among teenage girls. Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, raves, "Fredericks again proves her gift for conveying the intensity of adolescence, while exploring the ways girls' sexuality is used against them and asking why 'we all have to be predators and prey.'" Queen Bee Chloe is going to make Toni suffer for whatever transpired between Toni and Chloe's boyfriend, Oliver, over the summer. From day one of eleventh grade, she has Toni branded as a super slut, and it isn't long before things get so ugly that Toni fears for her safety. What's a scared, powerless, and fed-up teenager to do? Guided by Cassandra–a girl with some serious problems of her own–Toni decides to stop playing the victim and take control. Cassandra has been experimenting with witchcraft, and together they cast a spell on Chloe that may actually cause her death. Could Toni have really made such an awful thing happen?

Season of the Witch

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