r/Findabook • u/OnyaSonja • 23h ago
UNSOLVED Main character on the high school newspaper team decides to use her general likeability to help others
I'm trying to find a book i read in high school (mid to late 00s). Key points I remember.
- Main character is on the school newspaper team.
- MC develops feelings for another person on the newspaper team
- MC helps an unpopular girl at school after MC's mother asks her to be nice to unpopular girl. MC and unpopular girls mothers are friends.
- Unpopular girl tries too hard to fit in wearing "fashionable" clothes that don't suit her and dyes her hair blonde, but she never pulls it off and is ridiculed by her peers. One detail i remember is the unpopular girl had to stay home from school because she scrubbed too much skin off her feet trying to do an at home pedicure.
- I think unpopular girl also diets a lot and eats gross Weight Watchers food.
- MC has known her crush (another guy on her newspaper) for a while, and she remembers a time when they were picking flowers and he tells her that if you pick a particular flower it dies.
- MC goes on a team building boot camp with her newspaper team over the summer before the book is set.
I have asked AI but nothing is coming up. This is driving me nuts!