Title: Uses for boys
Description: Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and everything made sense. When she and her mom were a family, it was just the two of them against the world. But now her mom's gone most of the time, chasing the next marriage, the next stepfather. Anna gets used to being alone, until she discovers that she can make boys her family, from Desmond to Joey to Todd. But filling the void comes at a price.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations, Fatherless families, Teenage girls, Dating (Social customs), Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Friendship, Fiction, coming of age, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction, Juvenile fiction