school stories fiction

Sixteen-year-old Steph Landry finds an old book on how to be popular and decides to change her social status by following its advice, much to the bafflement of her two best friends.

Bridgewater High junior Lamar Green begins having strange visions of demonic figures preparing to attack the late bus, a route recently taken over by the mysterious, disfigured Emmet Rumble.

In this modern take on the Cyrano story, brilliant and witty high school student Sarah Burke, who is cursed with an enormous nose, helps her beautiful best friend try to win the heart of a handsome and smart new student, even though Sarah wants him for herself.

During her final trimester at St. James Christian Academy, Daisy is determined not to graduate as a high school nobody, but plans go awry when she tries to leave her mark.

As she is poised to become the new "Master of the Universe" at her exclusive private school, a teenaged girl falls from social glory and must scrabble her way back to the top using strategic effort and the help of her best friend.

When Mason loses his virginity to his good friend and secret crush, Kat Medina, it leads to enormous complications at school just as his home life is thrown into turmoil by his father's marriage to a woman with two children.

While fifteen-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant Alyssa tries desperately to cope with her mother's increasingly out-of-control alcoholism by covering for her and pretending things are normal, her best friend Lana attempts to fit in with the popular crowd at their high school.

A freshman art student from Manhattan spends her first year away from home in New England.

High school sophomore Lily opens herself to new possibilities when, despite warnings, she becomes friends with "ghetto girl" Hazel, a new student at the private Vaughn School which Lily, following in her elitist mother's footsteps, has attended since preschool.