Invisible (Smith High)
Jane Smith has an uncommonly skilled ability to blend in, which, unfortunately, is what she would most like to avoid. Her over-the-top teen problems include two best friends who have become superfamous (online and in real life), while she remains a lowly editor at the school newspaper. She gets a chance to be a star reporter, though, and is challenged with a page-one feature that will knock everyone for a loop. To pull it off, she has to get along with insufferable Scott, her assigned photographer. There’s plenty of friend and relationship drama here for readers who like their angst whipped into a positive froth, and Jane’s identity as dreary “Grammar Girl” offers plenty of introspection, too. A solid follow-up to Awkward (2012). Grades 8-11. --Erin Downey Howerton