Lola and the Boy Next Door / Stephanie Perkins / 338 p.

Lola lives in the Castro District in San Francisco with her two dads.  She is a good teenager, she wants her parents to be happy and approve of her, her grades are good, she is very into fashion and wears elaborate costume-like clothes and wigs.  She has a rocker boyfriend who is 22 (she is 17), whom her parents do not approve of.  Otherwise life is pretty good for Lola, until her nemesis, perfect Calliope Bell, and her twin brother Cricket move back into the house next door. 

I loved Perkins' first book "Anna and the French Kiss" and this book is just as sweet.  The main guys in the books are always so Nice and totally dedicated to their girlfriends.  I hope my daughters will read these books and aspire to have the kind of respectful and loving relationships that the characters in these books end up with. 

I would recommend this book to any teen girl.  The only warning with this book is that Lola is in a sexual relationship with her much older boyfriend and drinking and drugs (marijuana) is mentioned.  The sex is only mentioned and I liked that Lola reflects on it later in the story as events change.