  Teen Angst? Naaaah ... by Ned Vizzini is a book I purchased this spring at New England Mobile Bookfair (Newton Highlands, MA ... great bookstore! ) for my teen fiction collection at the library. Just saw something on one of the listservs about Vizzini participating in an online discussion about teens & libraries so I decided to check out his book.
A 1999 graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, Vizzini writes about things I can relate to as the mother of sons. He recalls the chaos that ensued in his Brooklyn apartment when Nintendo made its presence known, for example. (In my half-hearted attempt to keep videogames out of the house, I refused to purchase one. My oldest son finally got a secondhand Nintendo from a friend of mine after she broke up with the boyfriend who had given it to her!
) So far I am enjoying this book a lot ... it's in paperback and generally an easy read. UPDATE: Three Junes by Julia Glass ... the July selection for my book group ended up being really good. The middle section almost made me give up for a while but I persevered and the payoff was a really good story about very interesting characters so I am looking forward to tonight's discussion! 
