• Age: 13 to 17
• Grade: 8 to 12

Colleen McKie brings readers back to her high school days in the early 90s with Lipstick and Bangs. It was a time of change in which she began to diverge from the interests of her lifelong friends to become an alt rock music girl with a bookish affinity for Stephen King. Lipstick and Bangs is the true story of navigating identity at an age when everything is weighed against the pressures of friendships and boys. In the crush or be crushed world of teen dating, can she be true to herself when she’s unsure of who that person really is?

Colleen McKie is a freelance writer and editor who quite often works with a cat in her lap or a bird on her shoulder. When she isn’t writing or editing, she’s reading. And when she isn’t reading, she’s spending time with her husband or one of the zillion animals that own her.

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