What my mother doesn't know/What my girlfriend doesn't know by Sonya Sones

What my mother doesn't know (2002) is a love story told from the girl's point of view. Sometimes a girl's heart and her head disagree about a guy. When that happens the girl has a tough decision to make. Sophie thinks she is in love with Dylan, so why is she thinking about Murphy...the guy who's very name is synonymous with dork, nerd, wimp? Sophie is in for some surprises when her heart starts paying attention to Murphy.

What my girlfriend doesn't know (2007) starts where the 1st book left off, but is told from Murphy's point of view. Having Sophie for a girlfriend is better than anything he's ever imagined. But how much abuse is she willing to stand as everyone in school laughs at her and Murphy together? He loves her, and watching her lose her friends over him hurts.

I really couldn't put this book down till I finished it and found out how it ended.

Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

It's too bad the cover of this book has that cow with the tiara....This book IS funny, but not cow in a tiara kind of funny. It's the kind of funny where you recognize the characters and what they are going through and it makes you smile - you KNOW people like this. D.J. Schwenk, the main character, is from a family that does not talk about the stuff that's going on in their heads. At the opening of the book she is working like crazy to keep the farm going while her dad is laid up with knee surgery, and trying to keep up at school, and maybe finding a little time to have a life of her own. This was fun to read, and I laughed out loud.

The God box, by Alex Sanchez

Sanchez makes a valid point about homophobia and how destructive it is to gays and straights alike. But in this book the gay main character's doubts and confusion and unhappiness seemed neverending. I thought the moral of the story was a little heavyhanded, and would have benefited from lightening up a little. The other books by this author are better.