Lygia Day Peñaflor

Gr 9 Up–In the fall, Natty Poole will leave his East End, Long Island, town for MIT. During the two months of summer, Natty falls for Tia Cruz Adlon, who’s preparing to attend Columbia University. They become inseparable as they count the days until they must part. When tragedy strikes, Tia copes by detaching from her emotions. Eventually, she drops out of college and finds work in a dog kennel and as an actress in a short student film.

age 13+ Writer uses teens' secrets for stories in riveting thriller. Parents need to know that All of This Is True is about the manipulative relationship between four teens and the YA author they idolize. The story is part social drama, part psychological thriller. Flattered to be befriended by a novelist whose work they love, the shallow, status-conscious teens eat up the attention she shines on them, to disastrous consequences.

age 14+ Teen girl stalks popular couple in tepid thriller. Parents need to know that Creep, by Lygia Day Peñaflor (All of This Is True), is a psychological thriller about an obsessive teen girl who stalks a popular couple at her school. Rafi idolizes "it" couple Laney and Nico and tries to worm her way into their relationship.