If you go into the wild nerd yonder, can you ever come back?

Will hanging out with them make her a nerd, too? And could she really be crushing on a guy with too-short pants and too-white gym shoes? And her quest is a hilarious tour through high-school clique-dom, with a surprising stop along the way–the Dungeons and Dragons crowd, who out-nerd everyone. Her beloved older brother will soon leave for college (and in the meantime has shaved his mohawk and started dating. Her two best friends have transformed themselves into punks and one of them is going after her longtime crush. A self-professed “mathelete,” she isn’t sure where she belongs. It’s Jessie’s sophomore year of high school. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern This is a story of the roles we all play-at school, at home, online, and with our friends-and the one person who might be able to show us who we are underneath it all. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again. It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG.

Soon, what starts as the most insane nerdfighter manhunt transforms into so much more. In her desperation, she’s forced to enlist the last person she’d ever want to spend time with-slacker Zak Duquette-to help find her brother before morning comes.īut over the course of the night, while being chased by hordes of costumed Vikings and zombies, Ana and Zak begin to open up to each other. When Ana Watson’s brother ditches a high school trip to run wild at Washingcon, type-A Ana knows that she must find him or risk her last shot at freedom from her extra-controlling parents. Perfect for fans of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak is Stonewall Award-winning author Brian Katcher’s hilarious he said/she said romance about two teens discovering themselves on an out-of-this-world accidental first date at a sci-fi convention. The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher

Prom Queen Geeks by Laura Preble