Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles is a good story about the difficulties of actually being in a high school relationship with someone out of your clique. Also it shows how sometimes people pretend to be something they are not in order to look perfect to everyone else.
This story is about Brittany Ellis and Alex Fuentes. Brittany is perfect to everyone that doesn’t know her. She is rich, smart, beautiful and she has an amazing home life. But does she? Her 20 year old sister has cerebral palsy. Well, Alex’s home life isn’t that great either. He is a gang member, that watched his father being murdered. They just so happen to be paired up as Chemistry partners and they fall in love. But because she is on the poms squad and he is a gang member everyone looks down on their relationship and thinks it will never work. But will it?