Every Day

One of "A"'s host bodies, a heavy metal dude, is physically attacked by a jealous boyfriend and ends up with a few cuts and bruises. One of the bodies "A" inhabits is a teenage drinker who remembers causing a fatal car accident; her memories of the crash are brief but graphic. One person wants to commit suicide. A pot smoker gets into a fistfight with a drug-dealing school mate.

"A" kisses the boyfriends or girlfriends of a few of the bodies he/she inhabits. A couple of times, a kissing session gets somewhat intense, and once when "A" is with Rhiannon, they disrobe from the waist up. Once "A" wakes up as a girl next to her girlfriend in bed. It's mentioned that Rhiannon has had sex with Justin, but that's not described.

Characters are occasionally called names, including "whore," "bitch," and "slut."

A teenage drinker wakes up with a hangover and remembers causing a fatal accident. "A" wakes up in the body of a drug addict and struggles with the cravings/needs of the person's body for a day. Teens drink alcohol at a party. The older brother of a girl whom "A" inhabits smokes pot while driving his sister to school.

Parents need to know that David Levithan's best-selling novel Every Day is about a character called "A," who's a whole person emotionally and intellectually but wakes up every morning in the body of a different teen. Working from this premise, the author shows a broad variety of teen lifestyles, diverse sexual orientations, and gender identifications, as well as different approaches to parenting. The book shows teens engaging in some sexual behavior: kissing intensely and partially undressing. There's also some teen drinking, and one character wakes up with a terrible hangover, tortured by the memory of a drunk-driving incident that caused a fatality. Some teen characters abuse narcotics and marijuana, and there are a couple of fistfights between teen boys.