Losing Leah: a Jewish novel (Losing Leah, Book 1)

All fourteen-year-old Orthodox Jew, Leah Kaplan, has ever wanted was to be popular. When her best friend Chavy accidentally upsets the queen bee, the popular girls are out for revenge. Once they discover that Chavy has a crush on Leah’s brother, they come up with a plan—to pretend to be him online and cause Chavy to fall in love with him. Then they’ll humiliate her by telling her the truth. They choose the prefect person to carry out the plan: Leah. Hoping to remain on their good side, she agrees.

Chavy Diamond has always worried she’d lose her best friend to the popular girls. When it happens, she finds solace in an unlikely person, Leah’s brother. The two of them grow close and Chavy opens up about her difficult home life. Even though she knows she’s not allowed to have any kind of relationship with a boy, she finds herself falling for him.

Things are spiraling way out of control and Leah knows it’s time to ditch the popular girls and come clean. But will Chavy find it in her heart to forgive her, or is their friendship gone forever?