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The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe leaves home one day after her negligent hoarder mother tells her to get out. She hitchhikes to the nearest city, where she's taken in by a ragtag group of loveable housemates living in “temporary accommodations,” who teach her the real value of the family you make for yourself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780143198659
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All Eyes on Us
Frick creates an intense thriller as tension builds between Rosalie and Amanda, both of whom are dating Carter Shaw, the heir to a real-estate empire. After the two girls receive anonymous threats, they team up to end the charade and reveal the mastermind.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781534404403
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All the Bad Apples
After Deena's seventeenth birthday, she's forced to reconcile her own coming out with the death of her sister—who, clues suggest, might still be alive. Now it's up to Deena to uncover the truth and break an age-old family curse of “bad apples.”- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780525552741
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All the Bright Places
Death plays a big role in the lives of high schoolers Theodore Finch and Violet Markey. He is constantly on the verge of suicide, and she is battling grief after her sister's death. The Indiana teens come together to work on a project and soon develop a bond, showing each other what it's like to live.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Teens' Top Ten 2016
- ISBN: 9780385755887
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The Art of Breaking Things
Skye has a reputation for being a party girl who will get with just about anyone. What no one knows is that her drug and alcohol use helps her forget a secret about her mother's fiancé and her fears about what he might do to her little sister.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780451481115
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Aurora Rising
When Tyler Jones saves Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, he doesn't expect to be pulled into an intergalactic adventure that threatens the living universe and puts his very values to the test. Instead, he's more worried about the rag-tag squad of Aurora Academy dredges that he's been assigned after missing the Draft. But together they embark on a mission to understand Aurora's paranormal behavior, and in the process become more than just friends.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Teens' Top Ten 2020
- ISBN: 9781524720995
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Between the Lines
Aspiring reporter Darrian chronicles a semester writing and performing slam poetry in Mr. Ward's class. Each student in the class weaves their own unique story into their poems, learning to trust each other and the creative process along the way.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9780399246883
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Birthday
Eric and Morgan are best friends who check in every year, from ages 13 to 18, on their shared birthday. Eric struggles with his family relationships, football, and feelings for Morgan, while Morgan struggles with the death of her mother and with making the decision to live as her true self.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250129833
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The Bone Houses
Ryn manages a graveyard, hewing closely to the old superstitions about how to make sure the dead stay dead. But when Ellis, a mapmaker, comes to town, the "bone houses" become more active than ever.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780316418416
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Broken Things
Five years ago Mia and Brynn were blamed for the ritualistic killing of their best friend. Now, new evidence has come to light that could solve the murder and finally clear their names.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780062224132
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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
A Nigerian teen looks forward to the day when she will leave her village to pursue a university degree, but her life changes drastically when she and her schoolmates are kidnapped by Boko Haram.- Audiobook, Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780062696724
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Butterfly Yellow
It's 1981, and Hằng has taken a perilous journey by fishing boat from Việt Nam to Amarillo, Texas, to find her little brother, Linh. Her arrival is not as welcome as she had hoped, since Linh appears to have forgotten her.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062229212
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Call It What You Want
Rob and Maegan connect romantically after peeling back the layers of hurt they and their families have experienced. Rob's dad embezzled money and is now incapacitated after a failed suicide attempt, while Maegan's label as a cheater leaves her ostracized. Paired on a school project, they bond through shared struggles.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781681198095
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Code Name Verity
Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. -
Color Me In
Neveah Levitz is caught between the worlds of her African American mother and her Jewish father, who are battling through a nasty divorce. As she finds herself identifying more with her Jamaican heritage, her father pressures her to also embrace her Jewishness.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780525578239
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Harper is kidnapped from Washington, D.C., and brought to the fairy-tale kingdom of Emberfall, where a prince named Rhen has been cursed for over three centuries to relive the same year—in which he turns into a monster each time—and the curse won't be broken until he falls in love.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781681195087
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Darius the Great is Not Okay
Darius Kellner is a Persian American who has always felt out of place. He travels to Iran for the first time to visit family he formerly only knew through his computer screen. As he deals with clinical depression and his family, Darius meets Sohrab, a neighbor who turns best friend, and learns how to be himself. -
Dig
Five teenagers' disparate lives weave together, unveiling long-buried secrets within a complex shared history. King's surrealistic narrative confronts themes of white privilege and its dark legacies.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Michael L. Printz Award 2020
- ISBN: 9781101994931
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The Disasters
After Nax is kicked out of Ellis Station Academy, a terrorist group attacks the school, and he—along with three other students who wash out of the academy—is framed for it, forcing him to find out who was really behind the attack.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062657671
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The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
Fierce in her perseverance and flawed in nature, Macy's ability to survive in her toxic environment has secured her the label of the disturbed girl at school. She documents her experiences in her self-made dictionary that shows the toxic and tragic events that have shaped who she is today.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9781512439762
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Divergent
Abnegation (selfless), Erudite (intelligence), Candor (honesty), Amity (peace), or Dauntless (brave): where would you fit? Beatrice lives in a society where she must choose either to remain with her family's faction or set off towards independence and her beliefs. And what happens when the unity between these factions begins to fall apart? -
The Downstairs Girl
In this masterful concoction of historical fiction that mirrors contemporary social issues, Jo Kuan is a Chinese American girl living in the periphery of Southern society in 1890. When she begins using a pseudonym to write a witty advice column, she discovers more about herself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781524740955
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Dry
Imagine what would happen if water become scarce. Would you turn into a water zombie, kill all your neighbors for their water, or try to find a savior?- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020, Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9781481481960
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Echo North
In this retelling of the Norwegian fairy-tale, “East of the Sun, West of the Moon,” a girl named Echo, disfigured from a childhood accident, makes a deal with a mysterious wolf to live with him for one year in an enchanted house in order to save her father.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781624147159
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Every Day
There's never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. It's all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply.- Fiction
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2014, Best Fiction for Young Adults 2013, Teens' Top Ten 2013
- ISBN: 9780307931887
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Everything, Everything
Maddy is a teenager with a serious autoimmune disease that prevents her from leaving the house. Yet, she seems content to stay home and read books. That is until a boy named Olly moves in next door. The two meet, and their quirky relationship is chronicled through emails, journal entries, IMs and old notes. -
The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel and Augustus meet and forge a relationship at a support group for kids battling cancer. As Hazel and Augustus struggle with the “side-effects of dying,” they come to learn the strength of wishes, the complexities of long human lives, and the wondrous ways of the universe.- Fiction
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2015, Best Fiction for Young Adults 2013, Teens' Top Ten 2012
- ISBN: 9780525478812
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
After his mother gets a new job as a professor at the University of Texas, Norris, a Black French Canadian who has lived in Montreal his whole life, has to adjust to high school in Austin, Texas.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, William C. Morris YA Debut Award 2020
- ISBN: 9780062824110
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Foolish Hearts
When Claudia finds herself ensnared in a school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, she must also navigate the elaborate politics of her private girls' school, her budding friendship with prickly Iris, and a charming, tentative romance in addition to family drama in this funny, feel-good contemporary novel.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9781627799379
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Forward Me Back to You
After struggling with a violent sexual episode at her school where she was not supported, Kat moves, finds a new group of friends, and takes a trip to work with trafficked girls in India, where she finds the strength to help others while helping herself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780374304928
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The Fountains of Silence
Shining a light on the Spanish Civil War, Sepetys introduces Daniel, an 18-year-old American, and Ana, a native whose family has suffered under the Franco regime, whose romance takes center stage in this rich introduction to hidden history.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780399160318
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Frankie
Frankie Vega's half-brother suddenly presents himself, and just as she begins to get to know him, he disappears. Frankie is the only one who seems worried about his whereabouts so she sets out to find him.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9781250142993
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Full Disclosure
Simone Garcia-Hampton is HIV positive. After her secret gets out at school, she transfers, hoping to start over, but when she begins dating a boy and getting notes threatening to expose her, she must decide whether to keep running or face everyone head on.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781984829955
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Genesis Begins Again
Genesis struggles to accept herself as others call her names and her father's alcoholism leads to insecurities, but when a music teacher encourages her talent, the positive begins to outweigh the negative, allowing Genesis to throw out the list of things she hates about herself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, William C. Morris YA Debut Award 2020
- ISBN: 9781481465809
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Girls on the Verge
After learning she is pregnant from her first sexual encounter, Camille is forced to make a decision. When she runs out of options in her Texas hometown, she, Annabelle, and her disapproving best friend, Bea, set off on a road trip to get an abortion.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250151698
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Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
Glory, haunted by her mother's suicide, is profoundly uncertain about life after graduation–until she starts having startling visions of a future where women's rights are lost.
- Dystopian, Fiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Fiction 2015, Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780316222723
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The Good Luck Girls
Certain girls in Arketta are sold as children to work at welcome houses where, after being branded and educated, they become prostitutes on their sixteenth birthdays. Clementine's first encounter leads to murder—and an escape—but can she and her squad survive?- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250299703
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Harbor Me
Six kids in a special school are sent to a room to talk to one another weekly. As the year goes on, they all open up their deepest fears, hopes, and dreams.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780399252525
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Heartless
The infamous line "Off with his head!" made her a terror in Wonderland. But before that she was just a girl with a dream, who fell in love. In this curious prequel inspired by Lewis Carroll's famous Alice in Wonderland, Meyer's tale of eccentricity, phenomenon, and, ultimately, *Annotations provided by the Teens' Top Ten book groups. ruination will keep you on the edge of your seat as you realize how Cath led her life to become the Queen of Hearts.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2017, Teens' Top Ten 2017
- ISBN: 9781250044655
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Heir of Fire
Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015, Teens' Top Ten 2015
- ISBN: 9781619630659
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Her Royal Highness
After discovering her sort-of girlfriend kissing someone else, Millie decides to forego senior year at her Texas high school and attend a fancy boarding school. There, she's forced to room with an actual Scottish princess. Falling in love with her would be a terrible idea, though. Right?- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781524738266
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Heroine
After Mickey Catalan, a star athlete, is sidelined by a car crash, she relies on pain medicine to help her recover faster. When she discovers that it isn't enough, Mickey spirals out of control, and her need for relief leads her to lie, steal, and shoot up.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780062847195
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How Not to Ask a Boy to Prom
Nolan's sister decides to find him a boyfriend for prom, but when she forces him to attempt a “promposal” on his crush, things go sideways, and Bern, an unsuspecting ally, saves him. As the two fake their way to prom, they find that fake dating feels a lot like the real thing.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781626724013
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How to be Remy Cameron
Remy Cameron has been assigned labels. He is gay, he is Black, he is a brother, he is a friend. What happens if these labels don't feel right to him? What if they aren't enough? Through an introspective narrative, Remy finds himself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781945053801
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How to Make Friends with the Dark
Tiger Tolliver's last communication with her mother was an argument about an ugly dress. After her mother dies of an aneurysm, Tiger doesn't know who her father is or any relatives who can keep her. Facing overwhelming guilt and grief, she will have to “make friends with the dark.”- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781101934753
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I Love You So Mochi
Kimi's quest for self-discovery takes her to Japan, where during spring break she visits her estranged grandparents, falls in love, and finds her true, creative path, divergent from her mother's wishes.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781338302882
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I Wish You All the Best
After they come out as nonbinary, Ben's parents kick them out of the house, leading them to move in with their estranged sister. As Ben grapples with anxiety and depression, they navigate complicated family dynamics, moving to a new city, and falling in love for the first time- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781338306125
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If I Was Your Girl
When Amanda moves to Lambertville, Kentucky after a string of bullying incidents led her to attempt suicide all she wants is to lead a normal life, make friends, and generally be happy for once. All of this seems possible until she meets Grant, who causes her to let down the walls around her heart. But the problem is that Amanda's past is haunting her. And in her past, she wasn't Amanda, she was Andrew.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2017, Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award 2017, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2017, Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2017, Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature 2017, Teens' Top Ten 2017
- ISBN: 9781250078407
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Illuminae
Kady and Ezra have just broken up, and then their planet is bombed by a megacorporation. The pair escapes to a government ship, but must put their differences aside in order to survive and stop a plague that has resulted from the use of a bioweapon.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Teens' Top Ten 2016
- ISBN: 9780553499117
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In Her Skin
Jo Chastain is attempting her biggest con yet- impersonating Vivi Weir, who vanished 9 years ago. Jo is welcomed with open arms into the Lovecraft household, the family of Vivi's best friend Temple, the last person to see Vivi before she disappeared- but the Lovecrafts have secrets of their own.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780374308001