It Is What It Is: A So For Real Novel

It Is What It Is: A So For Real Novel by Carter, Nikki. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780758234407.

Gias got to face the good, the bad, and the new. . . Gia Stokes is psyched for the start of her junior year at Longfellow High. Shes co-captain of the Hi-Steppers dance squad, shes back on good terms with her cousin Hope, and her best friend Ricky has achieved hottie status as the schools new first-string quarterback. Now all the girls are after him, including Valerie--Gias co-captain--and Hope. They both want Gias help to score a date with Ricky, but how is Gia supposed to choose between them? If that wasnt enough, she also has to deal with a new dad and an annoying fourteen-year-old stepsister. Its going to take every ounce of faith Gia has to flip this script and make her junior year one to remember. "Gia Stokes might be a Hi-Stepper, but this teen role model has both feet on the ground as she meets lifes challenges with style and grace." --Melody Carlson, author of the Diary of a Teenage Girl series