Wilkinson, Lili. Pink. Harper Teen. 2011. 310 pages, $16.99. ISBN 9780061926532
At her old school, Ava was the emo lesbian girl, but Ava is not sure she really is that girl. That is the real reason Ava changes schools and enrolls in Billy Hughes, even though she told her girlfriend, Chloe she was changing school because she wanted to be more challenged academically. It is not that Ava does not love Chloe, she is smart and sophisticated, but Ava also thinks she might like boys and wearing skirts and the color pink. Ava is immediately embraced by popular girls Alexis, Vivian, and Ella-Grace, but she also finds friends in the unpopular Screws, who Ava does stage crew with. Ava feels compelled to please everyone, trying to be a different person for Chloe, her popular friends and her Screw friends. Ava will learn that by pretending to be what she is not for other people will only hurt them and herself.
