Chase, Paula

"Best friends Rasheeda and Monique navigate the ups and downs of a teenager's summer, Mo at home in the Cove; Sheeda at a sleepaway ballet intensive"--Provided by publisher.

Fourteen-year-old Marigold's family owns Flexx Unlimited, a hip-hop lifestyle company, and she attends the elite school Flowered Arms Academy, but she has never felt entirely comfortable in the mostly White school, and she prefers to hang out with Justice, relatively new to the school, but a star basketball player; so enrolling in Style High with him, a trainee program funded by Mari's family, seems like a good way to spend the summer--until she meets Kara, who obviously hates Mari and seems determined to turn Justice against her.

Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez.

"Best friends Rasheeda and Monique navigate the ups and downs of a teenager's summer, Mo at home in the Cove; Sheeda at a sleepaway ballet intensive"--Provided by publisher.

"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--Provided by publisher.

Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez.

"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--Provided by publisher.

Junior year at Del Rio Bay High loses some of its shine for Mina whose boyfriend Brian has gone off to college, leaving her feeling lonely and insecure, and other relationships within the clique are changing with Michael thinking about attending a creative arts program in D.C., and athlete JZ exhibiting signs of homophobia.

Mina Mooney believes her troubles are over when she is named to the varsity cheer squad in Del Rio Bay, and is looking forward to enjoying her newfound popularity--as well as some one-on-one time with her boyfriend Brian--at the upcoming Extreme Nationals competition, but she soon discovers that being popular does not mean she will not have problems.

Mina, very caught up in her relationship with Brian, is caught unaware when her best friend Lizzie persuades the clique to enter into a year-long virginity pact, and friendships in the group of threatened when Lizzie finds out Mina and others have violated the promise.