Gossip, revenge, haters, messed-up situations, political intrigue, and back-stabbing social scenes fill the pages of these juicy page-turning reads.

YA Friday and Fangirls Unleashed celebrate girl power on International Women's Day!

I recently read a book named When Dimple Met RIshi by Sandhya Menon, in this book an Indian girl named Dimple has been arranged to marry a family friend named Rishi. Dimple is 100% against this arranged marriage. She just wants to be a normal American girl studying and moving away to college, but her parents only see college as an opportunity to find "the perfect Indian husband."

These books center on how teens' lives have been shaped by their sometimes complex family situations.

"Books I've Read Recently" is a series where I, Penelope Gomez, will do a monthly wrap up of the books I've read throughout the past month. In this series I will give a brief synopsis of the story and then give the book a rating of :