King, A. (2010).  Please ignore vera dietz.  New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

This story is told primarily through the eyes of the Protagonist, Vera and her now deceased friend Charlie. Prior to his death he betrayed Vera by selecting a group of friends known as the over her.  They tormented her in some pretty awful ways.  She uses drinking as a way of coping with Charlie’s death and struggles with the knowledge that she has information about his death that no one else knows. In notes Charlie left in his tree house, Vera learns that Charlie and his girlfriend had been making sex videos for money.  When Charlie decided he wanted to quit, Jenny broke up with Charlie, threatening to burn down the store and kill him. Vera eventually goes to the police with the info she has before she and her father leave on a road trip.

The target audience for this book is 9^th – 12^th grade at a Lexile of 830.  It falls under the YA Mystery/Suspense genre.  It deals with such difficult subjects as grief, loss, death.  I loved the way the story progressed.  There is some strong language, violence and adult content, but I enjoyed the novel.  It was easy to relate to Vera and Charlie as I had a friend in high school that was my friend in private but not in front of his very cool friends.  He never really mistreated me too badly but he admitted what he was doing and 35 years later actually contacted me on Facebook and apologized after a mutual friend of ours passed away.