Opposite of Tidy by Carrie Mac

Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Junie is barely coping. Her mother has started sleeping in the chair in front of the TV, and the house is so packed with junk, newspapers, cupboard organizers and other helpful items from the Shopping Channel that she can barely get in the front door. Her father is no help, since he’s always with That Woman. To top it off, she’s failing math.

So when Wade Jaffre, the hot new guy at school, offers her a ride home, it seems too good to be true. Junie surprises herself by accepting – and even talking! She doesn’t have to think twice about directing him on to her best friend Tabitha’s house, or about continuing the charade of pretending she lives there.

Carrie Mac is an award-winning author who has moved too many times to count. For now, she lives in Pemberton, a very small town nestled in the mountains north of Vancouver. Carrie Mac’s first novel The Beckoners won the Arthur Ellis YA Award, is a CLA Honour book, and is being adapted for film. Her contributions to the Orca Soundings series, Charmed and Crush, continue to get reluctant teens excited about reading.

She has been known to hold the interest of a couple hundred teens where others have failed. Maybe it’s the tattoos.