High School Relationships

In 2014, Chessy Prout was a freshman at St. Paul's School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, when a senior boy sexually assaulted her as part of a ritualized game of conquest. Chessy bravely reported her assault to the police and testified against her attacker in court. Then, in the face of unexpected backlash from her once-trusted school community, she shed her anonymity to help other survivors find their voice.

He’s cruel, relentless, and living down the hall. Now he knows her secret and he’s not letting go. Tessa I had one plan. Stay invisible, count the days, and keep my body’s humiliating condition under wraps. But Riven makes that impossible. He’s the school’s bad boy, my new stepbrother, and the bully who never misses a chance to watch me unravel. His taunts cut deep, but it’s his eyes that see too much. He found out what I leak, and instead of being disgusted, he’s obsessed. Now every glance, every brush of contact, turns crueler, sharper, and more addictive. I hate him. I ...

Everyone has that person in his or her life… The one who got away. For Lucy, that person is Jackson. Reunited after many years and many changes, Lucy and Jackson find themselves caught in a dilemma. Both of them are struggling with the fact that their old feelings for each other have been reawakened… And now both of them are involved with other people. Should Lucy stay in a comfortable, routine relationship with her boyfriend, Matt, even though he doesn’t make her feel the way Jackson does? Should Jackson keep going with the flow in his marriage to Sloane, his overbearing wife who is ...

The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing, and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of 15- to 25-year-olds.

Her shame was his weapon, but their desire became their war. Lena Martinez, a scholarship student at Ridgemont Prep, clings to her dignity while hiding a humiliating secret that could shatter her future. Valentine’s Day brings no reprieve, only the cruel attention of Ethan Holt, the academy’s golden heir. With his wealth, charm, and vicious intent, he uncovers her vulnerability, wielding it like a blade to bind her to him. Ethan’s twisted game of blackmail ignites a dangerous spark. Each forbidden encounter in shadowed classrooms and secret corners pushes Lena deeper into his control,...

From the author of Dunk comes this sparkling new novel that covers a year in the life of high school freshman Scott Hudson, who is sideswiped by the unexpected news that his mother is about to have another baby.

She’s hiding a secret her body refuses to keep. He discovers it, uses it, and turns her shame into something filthy and addictive. Ivy wants to survive Crestwood Academy unnoticed, burying the strange condition that marks her as different. But when her cocky, cruel stepbrother Knox catches her milking herself in the woods, everything changes. Armed with blackmail and zero mercy, he turns her secret into a weapon—and Ivy into his personal obsession. What begins as a threat becomes a game. A dare. A dangerously intimate war neither of them can walk away from. Knox is used to control. He ...

Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer... everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun. When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a "reality version of Sex and the City," they can hardly believe their luck. Their own show? Yes, please!

Make the most of your high school years by developing new social skills that help make friends, thwart enemies, and build your confidence. Does the thought of starting high school breed a mix of deep emotions–from intense excitement to mind-numbing dread? Don’t be a target for bullies and phony friends. Learn to set boundaries for yourself and use assertiveness to thrive. Avoid unnecessary conflicts, and learn to communicate effectively with parents, teachers, and even your boss.

Now that Joy is back in Rocky Ridge, she’s hoping she’s made the right decision. Though life with her husband in LA had been turbulent, she’d at least had a job and a steady income. Now she’s got to rebuild from the ground up and jobs aren’t as plentiful in the small mountain town as they were in the city. Her daughter is depending on her, so this move to her home town has to work. Running into Joy was the last thing Aaron expected. She’d been his best friend and his biggest crush back in the day. They tried to date once. He’d been smitten and she’d decided that a guy with ...

He found her secret by accident. Now he wants to ruin her with it. Vera My mom’s eloping with a man I’ve never met, and now I have to play nice with his son. Great. I just wanted to survive one dinner without breaking, but instead I ran into him. Cairo. Tattooed, pierced, cocky as hell—and the last person who should’ve seen what I dropped in the stairwell. Now he’s got my shirt, soaked with the one thing I’ve spent years hiding. My body leaks when I’m stressed. And he found out. Now he’s not just mocking me—he’s obsessed. Cairo She was trying to disappear. Hoodie up, ...

A little too smart, a little too fat, Bobby Goodspeed has always been a go-along-to-get-along kind of guy. But when his friend Addie decides to tackle the student council elections, Bobby finds himself changing in ways he never could have imagined in this tender, touching, utterly hilarious novel of life as a middle school misfit.

My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who, coincidentally, didn't want to meet me when I was born because my mother was unmarried, and therefore living in sin. My mom has told me the story many, many, many, times of how, when she confessed to my grandmother that she was pregnant with me, her mother beat her. BEAT HER! She was 25. That story is the basis of my sexual education and has reiterated why it's important to wait until you're married to give it up.

The spirited child - often called "difficult" or "strong-willed" - can easily overwhelm parents, leaving them feeling frustrated and inadequate. Spirited kids are, in fact, simply "more" - by temperament, they are more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and uncomfortable with change than the average child. Through vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka offers parents emotional support and proven strategies for handling their spirited child.

When 16-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas 'n' Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed…yet she hasn't aged a day. Everything else about Kyra's old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men.

Devorah Blachor, an ardent feminist, never expected to be the parent of a little girl who was totally obsessed with the color pink, princesses, and all things girly. She wasn't sure how to reconcile the difference between her parental expectations and the reality of her Disney-worshiping three-year-old daughter. Offering insight, advice, and plenty of humor and personal anecdotes, this mother shares her story of how she surrendered control and opened up - to her Princess Toddler, to pink, and to life.

Some girls say no. Some boys don't listen. When Grace meets Ian, she's afraid. Afraid he'll reject her like the rest of the school, like her own family. After she accuses Zac, the town golden boy, of rape, everyone turns against her. Ian wouldn't be the first to call her a slut and a liar. Except Ian doesn't reject her. He's the one person who looks past the taunts and the names and the tough-girl act to see the real Grace. He's the one who gives her the courage to fight back. He's also Zac's best friend.

High-school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background. But ever since he got busted for spraying graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn't believe. His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just happens to be Tyler's secret crush. And that sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler questioning his place in the school, in his family, and in the world.

He vowed to break her. She dared him to try. Scholarship student Laura Hayes is an outcast at elite Spindletop Academy, her every breath a tightrope walk over expulsion. Prince Dominic, the academy's cruelest ruler, targets her with sadistic precision, armed with her most humiliating secret: a hormonal imbalance causing lactation. He plans to use it, to shame her, to possess her utterly. But Laura’s unexpected fire ignites a dangerous spark, twisting their dynamic from predator and prey into a raw, unwilling obsession. As forced intimacy uncovers shared wounds and a dark, undeniable ...

Ever since last year's homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other. It doesn't hurt that their families are the modern day, Californian version of the Montagues and Capulets. But when a group camping trip goes south, Zorie and Lennon find themselves stranded in the wilderness. Alone. Together. What could go wrong? With no one but each other for company, Zorie and Lennon have no choice but to hash out their issues via witty jabs and insults as they try to make their way to safety.