Showing 51–100 of 134 books
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Hothouse: A Novel
Russell and DJ lose their firefighter fathers in a major fire and must cope with their private grief and the community's adulation of their fathers. And then there's backlash.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780061673795
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The House of Tomorrow
Homeschooled teenager Sebastian Prendergast is forced by his grandmother's stroke to venture out of his geodesic dome habitat and befriends a chain-smoking teen who introduces him to pop culture through the punk band they form together.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780399156090
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How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story
Seventeen-year-old Stacy Black enters a hospital where she battles her ups and downs with her unreliable boyfriend, Eric; her bleak, unrelenting thoughts and her battle with bulimia.- Realistic Fiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2011
- ISBN: 9781596434547
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Hush
After many years, Gittel finally knows why her friend, Devory, took her own life. Yet when Devory tries to tell, her ultra-conservative Jewish community won't listen.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012, William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2011
- ISBN: 9780802720887
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I Will Save You
Kidd's life is getting back on track at the beach, after time spent in a group home, but then Devon is back to cause his usual trouble. -
If You Really Loved Me. (Urban Underground #4)
Destini Fletcher hates Tubman High from day one. When Tyron Becker singles her out, Destini is thrilled to be a part of Tyron's crowd. But he scorns her budding friendship with Alonee, Jaris, and Sami, and mocks her attempts to earn good grades. Do her excuses for Tyron's increasinly brutal behavior and bad attitude put her at rish?- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9781616510039
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Immortal
Khalid's determined not to go back to his gangbanging life.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9781601621702
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Impulse
After their failed suicide attempts land them in a psychiatric hospital, teenagers Vanessa, Tony, and Conner forge a friendship while they attempt to resolve their various emotional issues. The narrators provide their characters with distinct, emotionally charged voices.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781598877564
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It's Not Summer Without You
After a heart-breaking loss, Belly reevaluates her relationships with family,friends and love interests, Conrad and Jeremiah. Almasy's clever and skilled narration convincingly alternates between Belly's and Jeremiah's points of view.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781416995555
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Jerk, California
Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man who sends him on a road trip designed to help Sam discover the truth about his life. Andy Paris is convincing as a young man struggling with the effects of Tourette's syndrome, capturing the inner turmoil in this coming of age story.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781449806477
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Jump
P.K. refuses to go to boarding school; Critter busts out of the psych ward. A chance meeting at a rock-climbing wall brings them to Yosemite for an unforgettable adventure.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780670011858
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Keep Sweet
Age 14, doomed to be one of six wives.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9781416986812
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Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Weeks in therapy go by and 18year-old Zach is still unable to remember the monstrous events that left him alone and haunted by nightmares.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781935955092
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The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Seventeen-year-old Pancho grapples with the mysterious death of his sister while accompanying his new friend, D.Q, on his own quest to face down death.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780545151337
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Let It Snow
Snow + six hungry teens + one snow night = a recipe for love
- Realistic Fiction
- What’s Cooking?
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780142414996
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Like a Broken Doll (Urban Underground)
Sereeta's world is coming apart.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9781616510053
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A Little Wanting Song
Charlie and Rose have never been friends and couldn't be more different on the outside, but this summer, their longing and unhappiness causes them to turn to one another.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780375854491
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The Lock Artist
Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780312380427
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Losing Romeo (BFF Novel)
Can Phoenix hang on to Romeo by getting pregnant?- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9780373831388
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The Marbury Lens
Jack is a regular sixteen-year-old boy until he drinks too much at a party and wakes up in a stranger's home.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780312613426
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Mindblind
Nathaniel, 14, a high functioning "Aspie" who struggles with social interactions, but can solve mathematical problems that elude graduate students. People say he's a genius, but he thinks differently.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781477817124
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Mockingbird
Ten-year-old Caitlin has to figure out how to make the world work now that her brother Devon has died.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780399252648
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The Mockingbirds
After Alex is date-raped at her boarding school, she turns to a secret society of students, the Mockingbirds, to find the justice her school administration cannot provide.
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Muchacho
Eddie Corazon is smart, angry and bent on finding trouble. Then along comes Lupe, who makes his blood race and sees in Eddie something he doesn't see in himself. Ozzie Rodriguez perfectly captures the voice of a Hispanic teenage male as well as the others who populate this story.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780739385999
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My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts
A full-figured foodie, Angelica struggles with her perfect-sized friends and family
- Realistic Fiction
- What’s Cooking?
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780689865510
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Myself and I (Keysha's Drama)
Keysha swears off boys.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9780373831760
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Next Semester
A second chance for JD.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9780373831456
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No and Me
Brilliant, lonely and compassionate, thirteen-year-old Lou befriends a homeless eighteen-year-old, No, and is determined to save her.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781599904795
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Not That Kind of Girl
Life is about choices. Natalie makes choices that border between good and bad. The choices she makes could end in disaster or be the best choices she'll ever make.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780545169158
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Nothing
When a classmate tells them “nothing matters,” his peers reinforce the opposite, sacrificing what matters to them in progressively intense challenges, assembling a pile of meaning. -
One Crazy Summer
Delphine and her sisters fly to Oakland to meet the mother who abandoned them only to be foisted off on the Black Panthers' community program staff. Sisi Aisha Johnson is convincing as the young Delphine, conveying the emotional impact of this historical novel.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781441659521
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Ostrich Boys
In their misguided grief, three friends decide the funeral for Ross, one of their best mates, wasn't what he would have wanted. To remedy the situation, they steal his ashes and hit the road for a Ross-inspired adventure. Bruce Mann's voice and dialect give a strong sense of place while depicting the vulnerability of these teen characters.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780739379165
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Ostrich Boys
In their misguided grief, three friends decide the funeral for Ross, one of their best mates, wasn't what he would have wanted. To remedy the situation, they steal his ashes and hit the road for a Ross-inspired adventure.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780375858437
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Outrunning the Darkness (Urban Underground #1)
Jaris is struggling to keep it together.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9781616510008
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name. -
Precious
Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. Emotionally raw and gut-wrenching, Bahni Trupin's reading renders Precious and each of the supporting characters as distinctly living, breathing human beings.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780307578112
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The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye
Growing up in the 1960's, Amelia finds her one true friend and discovers the courage to stand up to the town bullies, local bigots and her train-wreck family.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780374361310
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Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy
Jacky Faber once again finds herself in the makings of history as she is forced to pioneer the first deep-sea diving bell in pursuit of Spanish treasure. Katherine Kellgren brings the feisty Jacky to life right along with the other colorful characters in this historical fiction offering.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781593164836
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Real Live Boyfriends: Yes, Boyfriends, Plural, If My Life Wasn't Complicated I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
Finally in her senior year of high school, Ruby Oliver tries to figure out whether or not Noel is her real live boyfriend.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780385904384
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Recipe for Disaster
Before Francie can become the next celebrity chef, she has to survive freshman year
- Realistic Fiction
- What’s Cooking?
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781554533206
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The Red Umbrella
Lucia and her brother live an idyllic life in Cuba in 1961 until the revolution when they are sent to live with strangers in Nebraska until their parents can escape.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9780375861901
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Revolver
Sig is alone with his father's body when the lawless man his father had managed to escape appears out of the icy wilderness.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011, Michael L. Printz Award 2011
- ISBN: 9781596435926
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Riding Invisible
Yancy's life is torn apart by his older brother's Conduct Disorder and he runs away when Will threatens his horse. He records his thoughts and feelings in his Adventure Journal.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781423118985
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Rikers High
Martin is arrested and is absorbed in prison culture while waiting for his court case.
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The Rock and the River
Sam, the son of a civil rights leader and brother to a member of the Black Panthers, observes the injustice around him, and tries to decide if he should follow the path of his brother, his father, or to forge his own. Dion Graham's deep, gentle voice fits Sam perfectly as he contemplates the world and his place in it.- Realistic Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2011
- ISBN: 9781441858658
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Room: A Novel
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2011
- ISBN: 9780316098335
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Scars
Cutting to forget.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9781934813324
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Scrawl
In detention, eighth grade bully, Tod, journals thoughts and experiences exposing the bleak private agonies of life behind his actions. -
Secret Saturdays
What is Sean hiding from his best friend?- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9780399251580
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The Secret Year
Julia's dead. Colt loved her. No one knew.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2011
- ISBN: 9780670011537
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