Firecracker

Astrid witnessed her brother's death from drowning when he was a small child. She sometimes acts violently, like pepper spraying a boy in the face or mashing a Twinkie into a girl's hair, but she claims her bullying only targets bullies, not the weak. There's a fight between two boys that ends in some blood. Someone sets a school chapel on fire.

Astrid admits to sometimes kissing "because she wanted something" and suspects the mean girls at school "traded in a trip or seven to second base" to make sure she didn't become Homecoming queen. She also reveals that her sister's boyfriend once snuck into her bedroom (she ended up chopping his hair with scissors to get him to leave). Her sister lives with her fiance before marrying him. Astrid later shares a kiss with a boy she likes.

Two instances of "f--k," plus a smattering of "s--t," "a--hole," "bitch," "crap," and "damn."

Astrid's private school nemesis is drunk one night, a boy says the punch at a school dance is spiked with Everclear, and teens smoke at Homecoming. Astrid's mother also secretly smokes, and her grandfather teaches her to make an Old Fashion. Later she reveals he said, "This glass of whiskey is just about the only thing worthwhile in the entire world." The dean at her private school has a son who lost an arm in a meth explosion.