Want adventure and romance, all wrapped up in one? Read Jumping the Nail by Eve Bunting! It's the summer after high school graduation, and the rumor is that Scooter wants to jump “the Nail”--a dangerous, craggy cliff where others have died. Dru watches her emotional unstable friend get sucked into Scooter's plan.
Dru, too, is also struggling to make sense of her new relationship. Dating Mark puts her in a whole new scence with parties and popularity. Her mom is no help, as she seems focused on his family's money and status and what could have been. All this as Dru is heading off to college in September!
Betsy Duffey follows in her mother Betsy Byars' footsteps with some great titles:In Hey, New Kid!, Cody attempts to stand out at his new school by telling lies about himself (super smart skate champion) and his family (FBI, drives a Jaguar). What will happen if he gets caught in these lies? In Virtual Cody, the class assignment is to research where your name comes from. Cody hopes he is named after Wild Buffalo Bill Cody, so that he can outdo the smart girl, P.J.
In The Gadget War, Kelly holds the role of “gadget wiz” in her class...that is until Albert Einstein Jones moves to town. They declare war, trying to outdo one another.