Life Unaware

Gr 10 Up—Popularity, Xanax, and the wrong friends turns Regan Flay's life completely upside down overnight. She is usually comfortable trying to "destroy" people who do not follow her lead—a trick she learns from her mother, a local congresswoman. Regan seemed to have her life together—student council, honor society—until one of her frenemies turns the tables on her and she succumbs to the same tricks she has used previously on other people. Not making the cheerleading team was only the beginning of Regan's downfall in this modern-day high school fairy tale. The teen finds an unlikely ally in her ex-best friend's outcast brother, Nolan, who has been burned by Regan's antics in the past. As he tries to help her see the fault in her old behavior, she becomes the lead in his school documentary aimed at helping Regan get her life back, completely unaware that she was originally cast as the production's villain. With plot twists and turns, this story showcases the aftereffects of bullying and the scars that are often left in its wake. Readers will find the expletive-heavy dialogue very realistic. Teens will appreciated the flawed, complex protagonist.