Wings~ by Aprilynn Pike

 Laurel begins public high school as a tenth grader when her adoptive parents move, leaving behind the land that has been in her mother's family since the Gold Rush days. The many clues that Laurel is different (she is strictly vegan; sunlight seems to shine through her fair skin; she never gets cold; she craves the outdoors) begins to wonder about a bump begining to grow on her back, which grows to the size of a softball and blooms into a flower that has foot-long petals!! Returning to her parents' land, she meets Tamani, a faerie boy she is attracted to, who tells her that she is not human, but rather is a plant or, more specifically, a faerie. David, her accepting and supportive classmate, tests her tissue and confirms that Tamani is right. When a creepy ugly almost mutated realtor pressures the family to sell the land, Laurel and David become suspicious, and they are soon fighting for their lives in an old battle between faeries and trolls. Laurel's struggles to figure out what it means to be human are matched by her struggles to determine what it means to be a faerie, and she is torn between love for David and love for Tamani. I personally feel as if Laurel is like many young people nowadays tring to find themselves and trying continously to fit in withother peopleand ocassionally come out of theyre shell like laurel did at the Halloween dance