Authors include: Libba Bray, Jacqueline Woodson, Ned Vizzini, John Green, Sarah Mylnowski, Melissa de la Cruz, Holly Black, Brent Hartinger, Lisa Sandell, Will Leitch, Leslie Margolis, Cecily von Ziegessar, E. Lockhart, Jodi Anderson, David Levithan, Dan Ehrenhaft, Liz Craft, Aimee Friedman, and Adrienne Vrettos.

I walk up to the driveway. At the entrance to the school, couples are lined up, waiting to go in and have their pictures taken and then have a big entrance into the gym. In line there’s lots of squeals and hugs and comparisons of suits and dresses and passing of badly hidden flasks. Every time the door opens you can hear music from the gym, giving people a twenty-second window to show off their moves, then the doors close and they look stupid dancing to the crickets.

I get in line behind Drew Barker, who’s a senior, and his too-much-younger girlfriend. She’s holding on to the crook of his elbow and trying to make nice with the senior girls who hate her.

My appearance sparks mild interest.

Behind me are two people I don’t know. She is in pink, and he has a bow tie to match.

It turns out Drew and his jailbait date are friends with the pink people. They’ve all started talking to each other, first sort of over my head, then around either side of me.

Now they’ve sort of surrounded me and are talking around me like I’m a campfire until it’s jailbait ‘n’ date’s turn to walk through the doors. The Pinks try to follow.