And when it turns out that Skylar’s best friend is the one responsible for having her booted from Lincoln? It’s an all-out war. Worse is that Skylar wasn’t exactly truthful about how she spent summer break in Los Angeles-and her little white lie is causing her once rock-solid romance to crumble fast. Living with a group of strangers everyone thinks is lame is bad enough. To her dismay, Skylar’s not going to rule senior year because she’s stuck in Abbot House, a tiny dorm known for, well, nothing. Skylar Hoffman’s senior year at her preppy East Coast boarding school should have been perfect: amazing boyfriend the coolest friends the most desirable dorm, but it’s far from it. Margot’s invitation to the ultimate beach party is within reach and she has no intention of letting her family’s drama or Moisés-the admittedly good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood-keep her from her goal.

With each order of deli meat she slices, Margot can feel her carefully cultivated prep school reputation slipping through her fingers, and she’s willing to do anything to get out of this punishment. And by grounded, she means working as an indentured servant in her family’s struggling grocery store to pay off her debts. The Education of Margot Sánchez by Lilliam RiveraĪfter “borrowing” her father’s credit card to finance a more stylish wardrobe, Margot Sánchez suddenly finds herself grounded. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming. Only, to find himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see-the demons that are right in front of his face. That’s why he’s spending the summer with his dad’s family. And Danny’s convinced it’s his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico. Before they find out he can’t speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they’ve got him pegged. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.īut at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him.

Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Because whether they are contemporary teenagers finding themselves as social pariahs, or characters in a far-flung dystopia shut out of society, in the end, everyone just wants to belong someplace. Let’s have a look at ten of the best YA novels about outcasts. Especially if that group used to be close to you. You can feel just as awful being pushed aside by a small group. You don’t have to feel ignored by society to feel like an outcast. Or Charlotte Huang’s wonderful Going Geek, where we watch a teen become an outcast among her former friends, when it turns out she’s been lying to them all summer.

Going Geek by Charlotte Huang