Wishing Day

Violet in Bloom: A Flower Power Book

l8r, g8r: The Internet Girls

Upside-Down Magic

Love Like Sky

My One Hundred Adventures

Vampire Island

It Was September When We Ran Away the First Time

Lauren Myracle brings her signature frank, funny, and insightful writing to this novel of a teenage boy’s coming-of-age.

Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and “wins” at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he’s given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe — oh god, please — he’s beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a sauced-out, rap-loving beta lobster suits Paul fine, and if life ever gets him down? Smoke a little weed, crunch a few pills . . . it’s all good.

But in the treacherous currents of teenage culture, it’s easy to get pulled under. With perfect frankness, Lauren Myracle lays bare the life of one boy as he navigates friendship, love, loss, and addiction. It’s life at its most ordinary and most unforgettable.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Wishing Day

Lauren Myracle, Julie McLaughlin, 2016

Violet in Bloom: A Flower Power Book

Lauren Myracle, 2010

l8r, g8r: The Internet Girls

Lauren Myracle, 2007

Upside-Down Magic

Lauren Myracle, Sarah Mlynowski, Emily Jenkins, 2015

Love Like Sky

Leslie C. Youngblood, 2018

My One Hundred Adventures

Polly Horvath, 2008

Vampire Island

Tony Ross, Willis Hall, 1999

It Was September When We Ran Away the First Time

D. James Smith, 2008