Young Adult Revisited

Mr. Drew, the new theater teacher, announces that he wants to do a new play. Everyone in the Unicorn Club signs up for a part, even Elizabeth. It's about a boy who moves from New York to California, rides some vampire ride, and turns into some type of vampire. He becomes irresistible to girls, wears funky clothes, goes after everything that moves, and generally sounds like a teenage boy to me. Evie narrates this book, and it doesn't take her long to realize that the Unicorns keep falling in love with random guys. Lila starts dating some guy named Tommy, Mandy hooks up with Peter Dehaven (is he not a dork anymore?), Ellen dates someone named Tim, and Mary winds up with Rick Hunter, who has a lead in the play. This all leads to lots and lots of trouble. Instead of sitting at their table in the cafeteria, they start sitting with their boyfriends. They constantly blow off plans with their friends for guys and ignore the club too. They forget that they made plans to...

Summer of 1956: Maria and Amy are just chilling on the beach, listening to some classic records and staring in shock at the girl who wears a bikini on the beach. Amy has a long-time boyfriend named Ronnie, but Maria is still looking. She likes this guy Stuart who is wild and crazy, but she also kind of likes his friend Buddy. Buddy is a little more serious and reserved. The girls hear him screaming in the water, run over to help, and find out that Stuart stole his trunks, which they think is pretty funny. Even though Maria made plans to see Buddy that night, Stuart convinces her to blow him off and come to the drive-in with him in his dad's pink convertible Thunderbird. She later sees Buddy in the beach house next to them and realizes that he heard their whole conversation. Buddy calms down the next day and asks her to come for a swim with him. They swim far enough out that she can't see the shore and notices a fog rolling in. Buddy starts talking about s...