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Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jay McInerney
The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.
Con-fidence
by Todd Strasser
In this convincing, crisply written novel, Strasser tackles head-on a very real middle-school predicament—the price one can be tempted to pay for popularity. Referring to herself throughout in the second person, narrator Lauren immediately draws readers into her life as she explains that she and her best friend Tara are eating lunch in that part of the cafeteria she dubs “the realm of the socially inferior,”... (more)