Sex, or no sex? While Tess figures it out, you’ll fall in love with this off-beat story-and its rich lesson about living a life without guarantees (Publishers Weekly).

Tess Whistle is a high school junior with ridiculous problems. Her best friend is plotting the annihilation of a neighborhood poodle. Her parents are newly-born-again Christians who just moved to a survivalist Outward Bound-type camp in Utah. And Tess is about to lose her virginity-under a canoe-to her serious boyfriend, Ben Easter.

Luckily, none of these dramatic turns spell catastrophe. Because Tess Whistle is a high school junior who is about to discover that, ridiculous as her life may seem, she is finding out exactly who it is she wants to be.