Teen fiction (not sure about genre) set in school (not sure if middle or high) where a loner boy befriends an outcast girl who has a scarred/ disfigured face. Story focuses on their friendship and doesn't develop into a romance. Read around 2017-2020.

[Alice789]

I read this book in middle school around 2017-2020. This loner boy watches the outcast scarred girl from afar. He has a journal and likes to write/draw crazy made up scenarios about how she might've gotten scarred. One scenario I remember is her falling in a volcano. I think she also tells people a different story every time they ask so that's why no one knows how she actually got scarred. He gets bullied and they take the journal out of his hands and use it to bully the girl at some point. I recall her skateboarding as well. The boy and girl bond over watching old movies and spotting continuity errors. It was her hobby first and she shared it with him. One movie was a baseball movie but I don't remember which one. The book ends with them sitting by a lake together and she starts to tell him the actual story of how she got her scar but the book ends before she starts the story, leaving it up to the reader's imagination just like how the boy would imagine different scenarios.

[Rainbowheart]

Underwater?

[SBC]

That sure sounded familiar so I searched through my read list. Is it Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff?

[Kris]

Google Books preview of Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff - SBC's suggestion:

- https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

Quotes from the book:

- "Yeah," she said. "I asked Trent to draw some theories about how I might've gotten my scar, because I don't remember. Amnesia," she explained, as though we'd even asked. Her little dog yapped. "So he made some pictures."
Jeremiah looked at the notebook one more time. A drawing of a guy standing at the very tip of an exploding volcano. "Is that true?" Jeremiah asked me. "You drew all these pictures of her?"
- I didn't know what a "continuity error" was, but I wasn't about to ask.
- Talking baseball movies was way better than weird scar stories...