Tell Me A Secret by Holly Cupala
**2010 Debut Author Challenge List** Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: HarperTeen; 1 edition (June 22, 2010) Summary: It's tough living in the shadow of a dead girl. . . In the five years since her bad-girl sister Xanda's death, Miranda Mathison has wondered about the secret her sister took to the grave, and what really happened the night she died. Now, just as Miranda is on the cusp of her dreams—a best friend to unlock her sister's world, a ticket to art school, and a boyfriend to fly her away from it all—Miranda has a secret all her own. When two lines on a pregnancy test confirm her worst fears, Miranda is stripped of her former life. She must make a choice with tremendous consequences and finally face her sister's demons and her own. My review: Not all of the YA novels I read deal with fantastical worlds and super powers. Some deal with some very heavy situations in a realistic manner. And many of them do a fine job telling th