McCafferty, Megan

Sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated when her best friend moves away and leaves Jessica to face the trials of high school on her own.

New Jersey teenager Jessica Darling chronicles her senior year in high school, coping with life without her best friend, and trying to figure out the current intentions of Marcus, the boy who sent her hormones and her mind wild the year before, and promptly broke her heart.

During the summer after her first year in college, Jessica has a hard time fitting in with the hipster staff at the Brooklyn-based magazine for which she's interning and is tempted by three very different guys--a neoconservative resident assistant, an "emo" boy, and a married Spanish graduate student--when problems with Marcus arise.

The day before seventh grade begins, twelve-year-old Jessica Darling gets a list from her sister, whose popularity and beauty made her a junior-high standout, but when she tries to follow it, all goes awry, including losing her best friend.