Gabi: A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

• Gabi Hernandez just wants to make it through her senior year of high school in one piece and maybe have a little fun, but that's not so easy with a drug addict for a father and a mom who expects Gabi to be certain way.
• Things get more complicated when one of Gabi's best friends gets pregnant and her other best friend gets kicked out of his house for being gay.
• Surprisingly, a poetry class helps Gabi deal with some of her issues (and it also turns out to be a place to meet cute guys).
  

Gabi's story is told through diary entries, and she is such a real, fierce, and  deep character who questions her culture's expectations and gender rules and roles for girls.  One of my top ten favorite reads of 2016 so far.

Grades 8-12