Lauren Myracle (E Lockhart) Books in Order

This section focuses on books Lauren Myracle has written alongside E. Lockhart, where two different approaches to teen life meet on the page. Myracle brings her chatty, confessional style, while Lockhart adds structural playfulness and an eye for the quiet ways power works between friends.

Their most visible collaboration is How to Be Bad, co written with Sarah Mlynowski, a novel about three very different girls who pile into a car and leave their small Florida town for a weekend. Jesse is a rule following Christian girl hiding a family crisis, Vicks is the wild fry cook whose college boyfriend has gone silent, and Mel is the wealthy newbie desperate to prove she belongs in their group. Over the course of one long road trip involving tourist traps, storms, and a very charming hitchhiker, the girls test each other's limits and ideas of what it means to be brave.

Because the chapters alternate between three first person narrators, you can feel the authors trading the story back and forth, letting each girl misunderstand the others and then slowly get it right. Small details, like the battered guidebook to fantastical Florida or the looming hurricane on the radar, keep the plot moving while the emotional focus stays on forgiveness, faith, and whether being a good friend sometimes means doing the risky thing.

The result is a road trip book that is just as interested in class differences, religion, and parental illness as it is in beaches and boys.

Readers curious about how Myracle and Lockhart work together can pay attention to voice. Jesse's righteous anger, Vicks's bravado, and Mel's anxious politeness all feel distinct, yet the narrative fits together cleanly, proof that the authors are comfortable letting their characters be messy. If you enjoy E. Lockhart's Ruby Oliver novels or Lauren Myracle's Internet Girls series, these joint projects give you some of the same emotional intensity filtered through a shared sense of humor.

In short, the Lauren Myracle and E. Lockhart collaborations are a good bet if you like contemporary YA about friendships under pressure, with sharp dialogue, road food, and big questions about who you want to be by the time you pull back into your driveway.