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“I grin back and breathe in the sweet smell of sweat, whiteboard marker and fear. The smells of high school.”

Book:Apocalypse Now Now

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“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove in the nightstand’s surface that catches the bottom of vase, and of course the wall itself. The violets, nearly a week old, droop in the light of a waning gibbous moon. Wrinkled petals are already piling up on the floor between the nightstand and the wall, and a girl only six days sixteen stares at the dying bouquet from her bed.”

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Book:Emily Smiles for April

Source: Emily Smiles for April

“See, the thing is, I had a little misunderstanding with Trent Gibson in Pre-Calculus earlier. I dropped my textbook on his face—accidentally, while we were discussing some…equations—and he thought I was trying to brain him. So of course, he narked to Shoemaker, and apparently accidents are grounds for disciplinary action these days.”

High School Contemporary Bullying Sexual Abuse New Adult Slut Shaming Teen Issues Rainn

Book:Promiscuous

Source: Promiscuous

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

Death Sex

Book:’Salem’s Lot

Source: ’Salem’s Lot

“And it wasn't just us. It wasn't just that we were high school, me a junior and you a senior, with our clothes all wrong for restaurants like this, too bright and too rumpled and too zippered and too stained and too slapdash and awkward and stretched and trendy and desperate and casual and unsure and baggy and sweaty and sporty and wrong.”

High School Uniqueness

Book:Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“When Grant Blue reaches me, he bends his head down close enough that I can smell the soap and promise on his skin. Clean living and popularity—It’s quite the aftershave, let me tell you. If I’m being honest, the fact that he even has to bend to talk to me is making me want to swoon a little. ...But just a little.”

Humor High School Contemporary New Adult Contemporary Romance Slut Shaming Teen Issues

Book:Promiscuous

Source: Promiscuous

“Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.”

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Book:Prom & Prejudice

Source: Prom & Prejudice

“If you skip one class, everyone knows about it. The teacher will track you down, or one of the guidance counselors will track you down and ask if you're smoking pot. According to the geniuses running this place, the only reason you would skip class is if you're smoking pot, though I actually find my classes more enjoyable when I'm high.”

High School Pot Marijuana Teens Drugs

Book:The Boy Recession

Source: The Boy Recession

“THERE WAS ALWAYS a boy in your life that common sense and the prayers of parents told you to stay away from: fast talker, fast car, and fast hands. He was the boy your father kept a loaded shotgun by the door for and met on the front porch if he ever thought about venturing onto his property…let alone the threshold. He was the tall, dark, mysteriously handsome, and uncharacter-istically quiet one that made you wonder what was going on in his head, and that little voice in your head said it wasn’t always so honorable. He was the boy you broke all of the rules over because bad-boys equaled excitement and the rebel in you liked the ride.”

Romance Mystery High School Thriller Suspense Darcy Walker

Book:Grade A Stupid

Source: Grade A Stupid

“Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.”

High School Wit Snark

Book:Rats Saw God

Source: Rats Saw God

“I’d known cruelty in a school—cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene—crowds batting around a person because they thought he was weak—happened to be my personal trigger.”

High School Cruelty Bullying Glass Girl Meg Kavanagh

Book:Glass Girl

Source: Glass Girl

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