New Releases by Sara Zarr

Now a movie on Lifetime! I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy''s Buick, parked next to the old Chart House down in Montara at eleven o''clock on a Tuesday night. Tommy was seventeen and the supposed friend of my brother, Darren. I didn''t love him. I''m not sure I even liked him. In a moment, Deanna Lambert''s teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," Deanna longs to escape a life defined by her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom, and striking emotion, Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany, and redemption.

As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts. They were also one another''s only friend. So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she''s lost the only person who will ever understand her. Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed. Known as Jenna, she''s popular, happy, and dating, everything "Jennifer" couldn''t be -- but she still can''t shake the memory of her long-lost friend. When Cameron suddenly reappears, they are both confronted with memories of their shared past and the drastically different paths their lives have taken. From National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr, Sweethearts is a story about the power of memory, the bond of friendship, and the quiet resilience of our childhood hearts.

" C''est Deanna, tu sais la fille qui... " Cette phrase, Deanna a l''impression de l''entendre chuchotée sur son passage chaque jour, partout, au lycée, dans la rue, depuis quatre ans. Elle avait treize ans, elle en a dix-sept. II est temps de tordre le cou aux rumeurs, de faire taire les mauvaises langues, de redresser la tête et de regarder le monde droit dans les yeux.

After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron''s unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.

In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna''s life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.