Read My Lips

This story is basically about how far will a person go in order to fit in with the other students.

Serena is a deaf girl and is starting a new school. She's in tenth grade. She lets some of the girls know she can read lips extremely well.

Some kind of sorority is mentioned, and some of the girls are talking about how Serena can snoop for them.

She's getting to be strongly attracted to a guy named Miller who doesn't happen to like the “preppy” look. She's torn between being with him, and being with her new preppy girlfriends (who are using her for snooping purposes.)

The sorority is secret, and is totally oriented around popularity.

Her new preppy friends don't want her to have anything to do with Miller.

The girls want Serena to work in the office to get more gossip, and one of them wants her to dig up some dirt on her competitor for being president of the secret sorority.

The problem is that Serena could get suspended if she tells anyone anything that happens in the office. Still, she does find out things and report them to the other girls in the group.

The problem is that the more she tells the girls the more problems arise. Then tales of what she does gets printed in the school paper. The situation gets so bad that some of the girls meet in order to figure out a way to defy the sorority, and to talk to their mothers who had been in the sorority to bring pressure to change it.

Serene is called to the principal's office, and her parents are going to be called. It's possible that the sorority will be officially done away with in all forms. Yet it's also the time when true friends pull together, and Serena finds out she has a lot of friends.

This is a really good book with a very strong message about belonging and what people will do in order to belong.

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