Thornburgh, Blair

Fifteen-year-old Plum Blatchley accidentally nearly ruins her mother's shot at getting a sweet gig as a party planner, which would have been awful as the family's finances are pretty stretched right now. Always chafing under her older sister Ginny's genius, Plum just wanted to spread her own wings, but in doing so she winds up at the lout sophomore boy Tate Kurokawa's huge mansion, and is gone just when Ginny may need her most, struggling with a secret of her own.

When a girl who feels rotten about playing Second Banana in the annual food and nutrition pageant learns that the girl playing First Banana has stage fright, she suggests a solution to both problems.

"A non-fiction picture book about skulls, and all the things they are good for"--Provided by publisher.

"When Natalie McCullough-Schwartz finds out that her crush, Sebastian Delacroix--a smoking-hot musician who went to her high school--is back in Philly to play a show with his band, the Young Lungs, she takes it as a sign to make contact. Again. 'Again' because they shared that moment in the pool party in June. It was fleeting, but now that he's back, Nattie wants to see if there was ever anything there. Then she hears the song. The Young Lungs' new single is 'Natalie'--an ode to a girl Nattie can't believe could be her but secretly wishes is. Then there are her confusing feelings for her good friend Zach, which could just be a side effect of being the only two straight kids in the school's gay-straight alliance."--Dust jacket.