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A fresh, humorous, and timely YA novel about two teens conceived via in vitro fertilisation who go in search for answers about their donor.

A gentle young YA romance for fans of Sarah Dessen about two teens, each of whom has lost something irreplaceable, finding one another.

The beginning of the eighth grade is not what Anna thought it would be. Her lifelong best friend has ditched her for the cool kids, and her mum is in the hospital after swallowing a bottle of pills. Anna is also trying to reconnect with her dad who remarried and has a baby now.

Lexi's life turns upside down after a car accident leaves her with facial scars. Struggling with her new identity and the betrayal she witnessed before the crash, she finds support from her uncool sister and a fellow student dealing with his own trauma. Lexi discovers she is more than just her looks.

The story explores the shifting dynamics between Josie and her mother, Kate, as the return of Paul Tucci, Kate's long-lost love, disrupts their close bond. As Kate grapples with her past, Josie navigates her own emerging relationship and uncovers unexpected truths about her father. This journey leads her to reevaluate her understanding of family and love, highlighting the complexities of growing up and the impact of unresolved histories.

Depicting with humor and insight the pressure to be outwardly perfect, this novel for ages 10-13 shows how one girl develops compassion for her own and others’ imperfections.For 13-year-old Isabelle Lee, whose father has recently died, everything's normal on the outside. Isabelle describes the scene at school with bemused accuracy--the self-important (but really not bad) English teacher, the boy that is constantly fixated on Ashley Barnum, the prettiest girl in class, and the dynamics of the lunchroom, where tables are turf in a all-eyes-open awareness of everybody's relative social position.But everything is not normal, really. Since the death of her father, Isabelle's family has only functioned on the surface. Her mother, who used to take care of herself, now wears only lumpy, ill-fitting clothes, cries all night, and has taken every picture of her dead husband and put them under her bed. Isabelle tries to make light of this, but the underlying tension is expressed in overeating and then binging. As the novel opens, Isabelle's little sister, April, has told their mother about Isabelle's problem. Isabelle is enrolled in group therapy. Who should show up there, too, but Ashley Barnum, the prettiest, most together girl in class.