DescriptionWaxing and Waning is a Young Adult novel about seventeen year-old Aaron Wasserstein. The novel concerns Aaron’s dual desires to date Valerie Richard, the cute new girl in school, and to please his grandparents, whose money makes Aaron’s comfortable suburban life possible, but who do not like the fact that Valerie is not Jewish. Told from Aaron’s sharp, funny, irreverent point of view, the novel deals with the various trials of adolescence: lust/love, responsibility toward friends and family, and development of personal identity.