Teen Girl Drama

As a teen girl, you are likely feeling pressure and stress from every direction. Having good, healthy relationships with friends you can count on makes all the difference. In this guide, psychologist and teen expert Lucie Hemmen offers ten tips to guide you toward creating and maintaining the social life you want. Even better, the real experts that make this guide special are older teen girls who have recently been where you are now—and have plenty to say about it.

First love and family turmoil in a meaningful YA story. Sixteen-year-old introvert Samantha Cross is falling in love for the first time. There’s only one problem: she’s falling for her older sister’s boyfriend, Ben Swift. Her sister Veronica is beautiful, outgoing, and confident. Samantha is used to her sister getting all of the attention and everything she wants, even if she doesn’t like it. But now they’re being torn apart by love for the same boy, their parents’ separation and mother’s declining emotional state, and their move away from Calmer Cove into city life in St. ...

One girl. Two crushes. Zero chill. And a voice in her head that won’t shut up.Kendi’s life is basically a chaos buffet—school stress, family pressure, and Chess Nationals breathing down her neck. And then there’s Kate. The snarky voice in her head who treats feelings like malware and perfection like a system update. Kate doesn’t whisper—she micromanages. And she always has the last word. Her bestie-maybe-crush Alex? Gone. Vanished after being caught dressed like a girl—leaving behind questions Kendi can’t even begin to answer without tangling her own identity in the mess. ...

She wanted to build a business. What she started was a movement. Seventeen-year-old Jaida James is all about hustle, heart, and handmade merch—trying to turn her craft into a real business before graduation. But when her Black History Month sale flops, her best friend Halley goes viral selling Black-themed products without being Black, and her school shuts down her club idea before it even starts… Jaida starts questioning everything. Her identity. Her friendships. Her worth. As tensions rise in school and online, Jaida learns that running a business isn't just about making sales—...

NATASHA A. FOXX just got the shock of her life! Her parents are uprooting the ‘family unit’ and moving from upper-class suburbia to Merida, Yucatan in Mexico due to her father’s photo assignment on the Maya Indians. Devastated, Natasha is convinced she’ll be the only fourteen-year-old without a boyfriend, and all her chances of being discovered as the next Guess model are completely ruined. What happens when a self-absorbed, fashion-oriented, boy-crazy fourteen-year-old is uprooted from her upper-class suburban home and forced to move with her family to the middle of Merida, Mexico...

New crush. More glitches. Same disaster energy.Post-lockdown Nairobi is buzzing louder than a matatu playlist. Kendi’s still the queen of the chessboard—only now she’s playing a way riskier game: her heart, her future, and a line-up of feelings she definitely never ordered. Her dreams? Glitching harder than her Wi-Fi during online classes. Alex? Acting shady, side-eyeing her like she betrayed the sisterhood, and switching moods faster than TikTok trends. Leo? All cologne, charm, bad timing—and the power to fry her brain with a single sentence. And Kate (the snarky voice in her head)...

It's 1991, and Tara Maureen Murphy is finally on top. A frightening cross between Regina George and Tracy Flick, Tara Maureen Murphy is any high school's worst nightmare. She's a senior, poised to star as Sandy in South High's production of Grease. Cinching the role is just one teensy step in Tara's plot to get out of her hometown and become the Broadway starlet she was born to be. It gets tricky with the arrival of freshman Matthew Bloom, whose dazzling audition for the role of Danny Zuko turns Tara's world upside down.

A little girl and her mother haunted by mental illness become entangled in the paranoia of the early 1990s Satanic Panic.

Dying is simple. Coming back is when things get interesting. Ivy Wells never wanted to die. When she does, she thinks it's all over. It isn't. When the 30 year old mother of two wakes up as a 12 year old, she has to navigate her life all over again. And she remembers everything, including the serial killer who is terrorizing her small town. Over several lifetimes, Ivy battles to save herself, her friends, and even her own children from the vicious killer. Follow Ivy Wells in a desperate race through time as she tries to outwit the person that is killing her over and over. What would you do ...

“I CAN’T WAIT FOR MY PARENTS TO MEET DANNY! IF I EVER REMEMBER WHERE I LIVE AND WHO MY PARENTS ARE.”Seventeen-year-old Charlie was shunned at school. Trailer trash. Second-hand Charlie is what they called her. It was time for her to make a choice. She chooses to leave, to run away from it all and never look back. To chase a dream, and maybe find herself. When a motorcycle accident leaves her battered and unconscious, more dead than alive, she becomes a nobody again. Left for dead in the ditch… like trash. Something no longer needed. Or wanted. Someone else’s problem. The doctors ...

For years, I’ve been "Daddy’s Little Princess". Smiling for the cameras, spouting the same three lines about how proud I am to be the Governor’s daughter every time a microphone gets put in my face. I thought I was already doing my part to make sure he stayed a big fish in our little pond, but now that Dad has his sights set on higher office, he’s practically trapped me in a fish bowl. Living under his controlling gaze, I can’t help searching for loopholes; sneaking out and finding little pockets of the world where I can just be me. I do my best to keep my head down and fall in ...

She writes the stories no one sees. But can she write her own? Hannah Park would rather spend her time with notebooks than people. As the daughter of a single mother who’s always on the move, she’s learned to keep her distance—emotionally and socially. Her one constant? Writing. Fiction is where she feels safe, where she can rewrite the world the way it should be. But when her latest short story catches the attention of a popular lit magazine—and its charming editor, Alex Chen—Hannah finds herself drawn into a world she’s only ever observed from the outside. Suddenly, she’s ...

Today’s middle school girls have it rough. In those few short years, girls go through an incredible number of biological and emotional changes, making it the most formative - and risky - time in their lives. Groups form and turn on each other, childhood friends can reveal trusted secrets just by sending a text message or updating a Facebook status, and deciding where to sit in the cafeteria can be a daily struggle. As any tween will tell you, life for a middle school girl can be summed up in one word: drama.

Samantha Taylor is not your average teenager. From the moment she could speak, her first words were filled with questions of the way things worked around her. With a father who fostered her love of science, mirroring his own, Sam is fascinated with genetics and computer programming, two things that have been known to get her into trouble from time to time. While her eccentricities might make it difficult to make friends at her school, she does have one friend, Charlie, a teenage boy who dreams of one day becoming a paleontologist due to his obsession with all things primordial. Especially ...

When Emma's diary is stolen from her locker, her world is shaken. A quiet and timid girl, will she find the strength to fight back? This is flash-fiction story of approximately 1200 words.

Money. Power. Lies. Murder. Some families will do whatever it takes to win. Carson Winters does as he pleases, without guilt or shame. And no one can stop him. But his judgment day is coming. This series about the Winters family is a complicated tale of the family with everything. You won’t want to miss a single word of this story of love, loss, and heartache, with just a bit of mayhem thrown in. The complete Stone Mountain Family Saga: Winters Legend on Stone Mountain A Dangerous Game on Stone Mountain Deceit on Stone Mountain Get your copies now.

PENELOPE LENNOX is in for the surprise of her life. No, make that two!Thanks to her father’s photo assignment, Penelope is dragged away from her comfortable life in suburbia and brought to Costa Rica. In the process her boyfriend of two years decides he’s not into long distance relationships and dumps her two days before her trip. However, broken-heartedness and dejection turn out to be the least of her concerns. Upon arrival Penelope’s mother informs her that she’s been registered to do a two-week volunteer session at the Leatherback Turtle Biological Center.The rundown dormitory-...

Asia Smith walks through life with a silver spoon in her mouth, thanks to her father, who spares no expense when it comes to his baby girl. But when he dies tragically, her extravagant lifestyle is brought down a notch. She struggles to adjust to her new life with Auntie Joy. Asia thinks that entering high school will help her world return to normal. She’s excited about attending the hypest school in Detroit along with her best friend, Tracey. They’re closer than ever and loving their freshman experience - until they fall for the same boy.

Sixteen-year-old Saira has always juggled family, friendships, and her Girl Genius celebrity. Now, as the youngest med school graduate ever, she can finally achieve her mission to treat young people dealing with cancer. But proving herself in life-or-death situations is tough when everyone from her boss to her patients can't see past her age to trust her skills. And working in the same hospital as her mom isn't making things any easier!

One race. One voice. One chance to outrun the pain. Twelve-year-old Jess Harris was a bright, curious girl—until one tragic moment shattered her world and sent her spiraling into depression, self-harm, and isolation. Her strict but loving parents didn’t see the warning signs—until it was almost too late. When a police intervention reveals the depth of Jess’s trauma, her father encourages her to attend a vibrant youth church group. There, Jess encounters a love and grace she’s never known before. Through faith in Jesus Christ and the uplifting support of her newfound spiritual ...