teenage girls

The definitive guide to being a teen in the modern age, with sage advice from a modern-day teenager and appealing to fans of Rookie.Earth Hates Me presents a look inside the mind of the modern teenager--from a modern teenager's perspective. Sixteen-year-old Ruby Karp addresses the issues facing every highschooler, from grades to peer pressure to Snapchat stories, and unpacks their complicated effects on the teen psyche. With dashes of humor throughout, Ruby advises her peers on the importance of feminism ("not just the Spice Girls version"), how to deal with jealousy and friend break-ups, family life, and much more. The book takes an in-depth look at the effect of social media on modern teens and the growing pressures of choosing the right college and career. With Ruby's powerful underlying message "we are more than just a bunch of dumb teenagers obsessed with our phones," Earth Hates Me is the definitive guide to being a teen in the modern age.

Confined by high-powered parents, overachieving siblings, and a controlling boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Izzy has learned to keep a low profile and her thoughts to herself. When she accidentally enters a comedy club on open mic night, Izzy performs and meets a new group of aspiring comedians who quickly become her friends. Keeping her newfound activities a secret, Izzy begins a desperate ploy to keep her two lives separate, but must eventually reckon with her suspicious boyfriend and best friend.

"Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon!"--Provided by publisher.

"Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be normal . . . until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget"--OCLC.

"The novel explores both personal grief in the face of family loss and collective grief in the face of climate crisis, and how the only way to move forward is through friendship of all kinds"--publisher's website.

Daphne Reynolds leaves her mother and flies to London to meet the father she has never seen before. However, her father sees her as an obstacle in his campaign to be elected to Parliament.

"Eighteen-year-old Seven and her best friend, Ten, live where all is peaceful ... except for the violent war raging above the sky. Lifelike humanoid robots and self-operated drones tend to everyone's needs, leaving people free to spend their time stimulating their minds and enjoying life'spleasures. But there are strict rules and few choices. Everyyear, on Assignment Day, the path of each eighteen-year-old's life is laid out. Some are given the jobs for which they have shown exceptional aptitude and are "paired" for mating. The others are sent off to fight in TheWar and never return. When Assignment Day comes for Seven, the assignments shatter everything she's ever believed. The rules force everyone to accept their fates, but Seven decides to do something unprecedented: to go against the Decision Makers' wishes"--Back cover.

The daughter of a famous samurai, sixteen-year-old Chihiro Ito is obsessed with her idol, Tatsuo Nakano, the first female samurai to be accepted into Kesi Academy. When Chihiro gets the opportunity to prove she's worthy of joining Kesi Academy by dispelling a demon from a local village, she jumps at the chance. Beset by challenges as soon as she enters the village, Chihiro is saved by none other than Tatsuo herself. Though she manages to convince Tatsuo to join her in defeating the demon, Chihiro soon learns that Tatsuo hardly the hero she idolized. Traumatized from her past, Tatsuo has abandoned the samurai way and lives the life of a drunken ronin. Together, they undertake a quest to defeat the demon, while Chihiro proves her worthiness as a fighter and helps Tatsuo find the part of herself she'd lost.

Seventeen-year-old Christmas Miller's summer vacation in Sweet Lake, New York with her best friend Lexi takes a turn for the worse, when the pair have a disagreement and they find a friend, Lemy, face down in the lake. Christmas, who has ADHD, is determined to find out what happened to her friend, discover if it has anything to do with the lake's growing algae problem, and repair her friendship before summer's end.