Even When You Lie to Me by Jessica Alcott

Fr eshman Year of High Schoolīook Covers Pictured: The Worst Night Every by Dave Barry, Freshman Tales of 9th Grade Obsessions, Revelations and Other Nonsense, Time Travel for Love and Profit by Sarah Lariviere, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi, Evolution Me and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande and Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawfordīook Covers Pictures: We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra, Just Breathe by Cammie McGovern, Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram, This is the Part Where You Laugh by Peter Brown Hoffmeister, It’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter, Saints and Misfits by S. In fact, if you have recommendations please leave them in the comments. Please note, though I struggled to find books with 9th or 10th grade main characters, I could go on and on for 11th and 12th grade main characters. So here are some of the titles that I have found that specificy the grade of the main character in high school. Middle grade tends to feature a character in middle school or typically in the 8th grade. YA tends to skew towards the upper end of High School, featuring characters in their junior or senior year, and they are typically 17 years old. Harder, because I knew that finding books that specified that a character was in the 9th or 10th grade would be harder. Easier, because I’ve read a lot of YA and already had some books I wanted to recommend. I knew when I got to YA that it would be both harder and easier. Soon Charlie feels the attraction has become tangible and reciprocated.At my day job, I recently began making some RA tools for the youth services staff that highlighted novels for youth that featured a main character in each grade, K-12. As the school year progresses, her crush intensifies with locked eyes across the room, late nights working on the paper, and heated debates over literature. Soon, she is looking forward to joining the school newspaper he runs and reading his favorite books.

Most notably, she is assigned a very young, nice-looking English teacher, Mr. When her dreaded senior year begins, she is whisked into a whirlwind of new friends, classes, and experiences. These feelings elevate her drive for something more in life. In addition, she always feels like she is living in the shadow of her more popular best friend. “Even When You Lie To Me” by Jessica Alcott is a truly heartfelt story about what happens when a schoolgirl crush turns into something a little more illicit.Ĭharlie has a tense relationship with her perfectionist, workaholic mother and admires her skilled, artist father, but the dynamic with her parents makes for a strained home life.

Even When You Lie to Me by Jessica Alcott