Lauren Courcelle: 8 books

And action… Coral’s wedding… Harley’s promo tour… and a positive pregnancy test… and that’s all before Labor Day. Welcome to senior year, Persephone. Only… none of it’s real… or is it? Persephone Smith doesn't live her life in what-if scenarios… until the Universe forces...

When you’re eleven, it’s not wicked weird to have a crush on a popstar. It’s arguably wicked normal. But what if one of your unspoken crushes becomes a popstar? That would only be... “Wicked Awesome.”  As the daughter of a former member of an internationally famous pop vocal quintet, the...

When someone grows up with a unique quality, he or she reasonably assumes that everyone else does, too. Persephone Smith, the self-confident, fifth grade, narrating protagonist of "Wicked Normal," innocently views herself as “wicked normal,” believing that everyone has the natural powers to have...

There are many tried and true traditions and memories attached to the legacy of the final year of middle school… football games, concerts, track meets, school dances, love poems, crushes, road trips, pizza parties, graduation projects, field day, a fourteen-foot wall, and of course, Ms. Salt’s...

Persephone Smith is back. This time, she's a junior in high school. She may be in the passenger's seat in cars, but she's back in the driver's seat of narration in the sixth installment of the series.  See, there often comes a time in life when a very special person consumes...

Persephone Smith is back... only this time, she's in middle school. Although she believes that the biggest change in the year chronicled in "Wicked Weird" will be that she gets to choose what she wears to school, she is severely mistaken. In middle school, the stakes are bigger, the consequences...

Wouldn't it be nice to know what everyone is really thinking? What's truly important to them? Who they like? Who they don't? What's true and what's not? Who they are when nobody's watching? Their deepest, darkest secrets?When two fourteen-year-old girls take a...

What if he had just told her the truth? Could she have forgiven him? Could honesty be even more powerful than magic? Or are there some truths that are too unreal for unconditional love? And action... It's Persephone's cue, but after what she's just learned, the only steps she's thinking about...