True Believer

You get older / and you are a whole mess of things, / new thoughts, sorry feelings, / big plans, enormous doubts.... In free verse, LaVaughn describes her complicated sophomore year. She develops a crush on a childhood friend and is confused by his response. Meanwhile, she struggles to understand why she’s drifting apart from her two best friends. At home, for the first time since her father’s death, she has to cope with her mother having a serious boyfriend.