Deze serie onderzoekt de turbulente reis van de adolescentie, met een focus op thema's als identiteit, sociale hiërarchieën en de complexiteit van jonge liefde. Het duikt in de worstelingen om erbij te horen, onzekerheden te overwinnen en het vaak pijnlijke proces van zelfontdekking. Door middel van herkenbare personages en dramatische persoonlijke groei vangen deze verhalen de essentie van het middelbare schoolleven, waar uiterlijk kan bedriegen en echte verbinding kwetsbaarheid vereist.
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.
Fed up with the increasingly violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can, in a comedic reimagining of the classic Greek play Lysistrata.
Whitley Johnson's dream summer with her divorce dad has turned into a nightmare. She's just met his new fiancee and her kids. The fiancee's son? Whitley's one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin' great. Worse, she totally doesn't fit in with her dad's perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn't even notice the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person she's ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn't "do" friends), and a smoking-hot guy who isn't her stepbrother...at least, not yet. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together. Filled with authenticity and raw emotion, Whitley is Kody Keplinger's most compelling character to date: a cynical Holden Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about.
Can't get enough of Bianca and Wesley from The DUFF? Kody Keplinger returns to the world of Hamilton High in this companion novel.