by Nancy Werlin
First published 2011
Lacey knows Will Brennerman spells trouble. She watches him target Catrine, a girl she barely tolerates who surrounds herself with the school's outcasts. Lacey faces an impossible choice in eighth grade's brutal social landscape. Warning Catrine means stepping out of line, drawing Will's attention to herself, and potentially destroying the fragile position she's built among her peers. She doesn't like Catrine. She thinks Catrine's friends are losers. But she knows what Will is capable of doing. Lacey must decide whether protecting someone she dislikes is worth sacrificing her own safety and social survival in middle school's unforgiving hierarchy.
Genres: fiction, school-stories, contemporary, adolescence
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, social-outcasts
12 pages · Kindle Edition · Nancy Werlin