Straight A's

By: Khristina Chess

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, this high-stakes novel follows a burned-out teen grappling with the suffocating cost of perfection.

Kim is a girl with big plans.

She’s on track to be class valedictorian, a scholarship hopeful, and—since her parents’ divorce bombshell—the unpaid therapist for her broken family. Bouncing between her parents’ houses, she’s torn between listening to her mom’s bitterness and watching her dad lose weight and clean his guns. The pressure is a physical weight, and her grade point average is the only thing she can control.

If she gets a B in Calculus, she also has a plan to die.

To the world, Kim is a high-achiever with a bright future. She still laughs with her best friend and crushes on Elliot, the enigmatic poet in Writer’s Club. But beneath the facade, she is hurtling toward a deadline. If she fails to get straight A’s at the end of the grading period, she’s going to end it all.

Falling for Elliot isn’t part of the plan, and the more she lets him in, the harder it becomes to say goodbye.

Romantic and ultimately hopeful, Straight A’s is a painful journey that shows the importance of support systems—including parents, teachers, and classmates—in saving a life.