is Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick. (I recommend this book for older readers or students comfortable with mature topics.) Through her junior year, Nanette is an excellent student, star soccer player, and model daughter in her upper class New Jersey neighborhood. Then her English teacher gives her an out of print novel, The Bubblegum Reaper that causes her to question what is important to her. Reading the book leads Nanette to make drastic changes in her life- she quits the soccer team and abandons her old friends for Nigel Booker, the author of the life changing novel. When Booker introduces her to Alex, another fan of the cult classic, she cuts class for the first time in her life and get dragged into Alex's radical ideology. When Alex gets sent away, Nanette must find her own path and reconcile external expectations with who she really is on the inside.
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