What Are Ya? by Jenny Pausacker

Leith and Barbara have been close friends since childhood, but now, at 16, they are discovering a new world – an adult world in which difficult choices must be made...

Leith, shy and thoughtful, asks herself why some of her friendships are no longer satisfying. Can she bear to be different? Could she really be a lesbian?

And Barb, who appears to have everything going for her, is looking for love, wondering if she'll find it, scared she won't recognize it, unsure if what she sees around her is the real thing or fake.