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"She's like red velvet cake in human form."Calabasas, California is the 21st century Camelot. It's the home of Drake, Bieber, Miley, Britney, Selena, various and sundry Kardashians, plus two less-familiar names: high school sophomores Colinda Quarles and Darius Purveyor.Colinda befriends her new classmate Darius, and they learn they have some things in common: they're smart, they feel like outsiders among their glitzy classmates, they're self-conscious about their backgrounds (she's the daughter of controlling parents, he's a member of the small, ancient Zoroastrian religion) and they're both infatuated with gorgeous cheerleader Templynn Treat.But deep down they know they stand very little chance of winning her love: Templynn is probably the richest girl in school (her mom is a billionaire fast food mogul), and she's already going out with equally rich Holden Fickler. But when fate draws Templynn into their lives, their worlds start getting turned upside-down.…

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|||2021 WATTYS SHORTLIST||| Not everyone's high school experience involves hot romance, parties and big plans for the future. Some kids are shy. Some kids are socially awkward. Some kids have heavy burdens placed on them by their families or their religions. This is the tale of two of those kids.In her senior year, Sabrina Himmelschein feels like she has no privacy and no life of her own. She lives in one of San Francisco's iconic Postcard Row houses, in an Orthodox Jewish family with high standards and expectations. At a speech tournament she meets Neil Cannon, who lives up north among the vineyards of Sonoma County, where his parents happily work in the wine industry, despite being teetotaling Mormons. They form a bond, but reluctantly break it; the religious and cultural gulfs between them are too wide to bridge. Four years later, their dreams of changing the world reduced to retail jobs selling socks and cologne, they unexpectedly meet again. After the families and faiths they've depended on their whole lives have let them down in a dramatic way, Neil and Sabrina struggle with an important question: should they feel guilty about being happy to be back together?…

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How far can a 17-year-old girl go to be with the boy of her dreams? Or to be the most popular girl in school? In Eden Brightwell's case, maybe too far.She caused a stir the day she showed up at Beverly Hills High, pretty, spirited, and above all rich. She loves fashionable clothes, jewelry, the color pink, and Taylor Swift's music. She just moved to town from Vegas with her aunt and uncle, guardians who can afford a $20 million mansion. Everyone wanted to know her, but she zeroed in on two of her classmates: handsome, shy loner Bryce Tableporter (the son of Hollywood royalty) and statuesque model/athlete Nova Fairchild. And it was going so well: Bryce and Eden fell in love, Nova and Eden became the best of friends. But charming exchange student Lalo Medeiros is the earthquake that splits open Eden's dream world, when he tries to claim her for himself.There's just one thing: who is Eden? She doesn't talk much about her past. Her uncle Russ seems to have some shady business dealings going on. And everything about her just seems too perfect.But a shocking crime will be the push that causes the carefully-placed dominoes of Eden's life to topple over, revealing a dark truth no one could have suspected.With equal parts romance, humor, mystery and thriller, Eden's story is one you won't be able to forget (think Beverly Hills 90210 meets Parasite, with a pinch of Hitchcock).…

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In this short followup to Ought To & Can, Sabrina joins Neil for an awkward family get-together on Christmas Eve, which gets more awkward when the power goes out.…