Senior Year Is a Scam: A High School Comedy About Smiling Through Chaos and Other Senior Traditions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798246180563)

Senior year is supposed to be magical.

Instead, Lydia Taylor's parents get divorced, her boyfriend situation implodes, her best friend group enters a constant state of chaos, her sister becomes emotionally intense about tennis, and every adult she meets keeps asking what she's "doing with her life" like it's a pop quiz she forgot to study for.

Oh-and she's a cheerleader in Palos Verdes, which means everyone is watching.

Senior Year Is a Scam is a laugh-out-loud, fast-paced high school comedy about everything going wrong at exactly the time it's supposed to go right. Lydia starts the year trying to do what she's supposed to do: date the football player, apply to colleges, smile through pep rallies, and pretend she has a plan.

Then she absolutely does not.

Boyfriends rotate (football player, soccer guy, surfer who somehow stays calm no matter what), friendships crack, cheer practice turns into emotional group therapy, and Lydia accidentally becomes known for public embarrassment-starting with a talent show incident she would very much like to forget.

Meanwhile, her younger sister Emma is on the tennis team and taking senior year pressure personally. Family dinners become awkward. Guidance counselor meetings feel like interrogations. College essays feel fake. Everyone else seems to know exactly where they're going, which feels suspicious.

Things escalate.

There's a dunk tank.

Lydia gets dunked.

It helps more than therapy.

Somewhere between pep rally lies, senior superlatives, beach talks with Luke, and realizing she does not, in fact, want to panic her way into the future, Lydia starts to figure out something shocking:

Maybe senior year doesn't get to decide who she is.

Instead of rushing into college just because everyone says she should, Lydia considers doing something unexpected-like teaching English abroad in Japan. Adults blink. Rumors spread. Lydia stops explaining herself.

And somehow, without fixing everything, she feels lighter.

Senior Year Is a Scam is a hilarious coming-of-age story about friendship drama, sister chaos, bad decisions, public humiliation, and choosing yourself even when you don't have a perfect plan. It's for anyone who survived high school, anyone currently surviving it, and anyone who just wants to laugh at how ridiculous senior year really is.

No lessons.

No speeches.

Just chaos, honesty, and a girl who finally stops pretending she has it all figured out.

Because senior year might be a scam-

-but at least it's funny.