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#MURDERTRENDING
In the near future, the prison system has been replaced with a reality TV show--Alcatraz 2.0--that features staged executions of convicted murderers. Dee Guerrera becomes a sensation by accidentally killing one of the executioners--but how long can she survive?- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781368010023
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10 Blind Dates
After Sophie's boyfriend breaks up with her, she goes to spend the holidays with her loving grandparents and huge extended family. They set her up on 10 blind dates. Some of these dates are hilarious failures, some promising, while her ideal future boyfriend may be nearby the whole time.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781368027496
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500 Words or Less
Seventeen-year-old Nic tries to salvage her tarnished reputation by writing her classmates college application essays for a fee. In doing so, she discovers a lot the kids she goes to school with, but more about who she is.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781534410442
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
April May makes first contact with what might be an art installation, or might be an Alien. Her viral video of the encounter gathers likes across the internet. As more of the alien mystery reveals itself, April manages her online persona, without destroying her relationships, or even losing her life.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781524743444
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Alone
Seda's mom inherits a creepy old mansion that used to house a live murder mystery show. When a twenty-inch snowstorm strands a group of teens there, live murder mystery takes on new meanings.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781492655473
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Amal Unbound
Amal's dream of becoming a teacher in her small Pakistani village vanishes when she is forced to become an indentured servant to the powerful Khan family to pay off her own family's debt.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9780399544682
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Belly Up
Serendipity spends one night with a boy and gets pregnant. At 17, deciding what to do is difficult, and changes this will bring to her life are overwhelming. With the support of her family and best friend, as well as a new boyfriend, she makes her way through.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781335012357
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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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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America
Short stories written by some of the biggest Black authors of YA. The young Black people in these stories confront all the typical teenage life experienc- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780062698728
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Creep
Olivia is excited to bond with her new neighbor Janie Donahue, not to mention Janie's sweet older brother Ben. When threatening letters signed by “the Sentry” appear in the Donahue's home, the three immerse themselves in local history in order to outsmart the perpetrator and keep the Donahue family together.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781338095081
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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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A Danger to Herself and Others
Hannah is institutionalized and knows it is a mistake. She slowly shares pieces of the mysterious tragedy that happened before she was committed. A new friend comes and helps her discover what really happened with an end twist to keep the reader guessing.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781492667247
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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. -
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? -
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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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. -
Fifteen and Change
Zeke is desperate to help his mom escape their impoverished life with her loser boyfriend. Taking a job at a pizza shop, he meets labor activists who encourage him to fight for better working conditions. Will he raise his voice in protest, even if it means postponing his own dreams?- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781538382608
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Five Feet Apart
Stella Grant's cystic fibrosis has kept her from living life as a "typical" kid. When she finally has a shot at a life-saving lung transplant, her resolve to stay six feet apart from anyone else is tested by fellow inpatient Will Newman when they decide if love is worth breaking that rule.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781534437333
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Game Changer
Teddy Youngblood is one of the most talented incoming freshman football players on the team. After an incident at practice that lands Teddy in a coma, his family must fight to figure out what really happened.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781419731433
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Ghost Boys
After a police officer shoots and kills 12-year-old Jerome, Jerome's ghost stays nearby and meets other ghost boys from the past, including Emmett Till.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9780316262286
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Girls With Sharp Sticks
The girls at Innovations Academy resemble beautiful, pleasing and polished young women. But they are not quite what they seem.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781534426139
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Goodbye, Perfect
Eden McKinley thought she had problems in school and with her parents until her high-achieving best friend Bonnie runs off with their high school music teacher on the eve of final exams. Eden grapples with her morals as the police search for her friend and her loyalty to her friends and family is tested.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781534402447
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Grenade
Fourteen-year-old Hideki is preparing to defend his home island of Okinawa during World War II. Ray is an eighteen year old US Marine fighting his first battle. During the Battle of Okinawa, they will discover resilience and compassion as the horrors of war forever change their perspective on humanity.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781338245691
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The Haunted
Hendricks and her family have relocated to a small town looking for a clean slate from a previous traumatic experience, but their newly purchased home has a long, dark history.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780451481467
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Here to Stay
Bijan was just called up from JV to play varsity basketball. He's hoping his new star athlete status will give him a step up socially and help him talk to girls. But racism and bullying rear their heads on campus and his new visibility is turning into more of a problem than a solution. -
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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Hot Dog Girl
Lou loves her small town, especially the amusement park that she and her best friend Seeley at. She also loves Nick, a lifeguard at the park. When a fake-dating plan with Seeley to make Nick jealous goes awry, she'll have to figure out who she really has feelings for.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780525516255
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How We Roll
New girl in town Quinn has a condition called alopecia that makes her hair fall out. When she meets Nick, a former all-star football player who lost his legs in a snowboarding accident, they help each other find confidence again.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9780374305666
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I'm Not Dying With You Tonight
Lena, the neighborhood black girl, doesn't know Campbell, the out of state white girl, but when a violent outburst at their high school football game throws them together, they become a team focused on their own well-being, and survival, as a series of nightmares block their way home.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781492678892
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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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Impossible
When Jemma runs out to buy diapers, she witnesses a murder that could put both her and her baby girl's lives in danger.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781459815568
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In the Key of Nira Ghani
Nira Ghani challenges her Guyanese parents' dream of her becoming a doctor by following her love for the trumpet instead. A coming-of-age tale with a twist.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780762465477
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It's The End of the World As I Know It
Since Derrick's mother's death, he lives in fear of doomsday. Derrick's friends, father, and sister care for him deeply, but it is Derrick's unusual friendship with his quirky neighbor Misty that helps him live in the present rather than feel weighed down by the past and worried for the future.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780735228016
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Jackpot
Seventeen-year-old Rico works long hours at the Gas ‘n' Go to help support her mother and younger brother. When no one comes forward to claim a multi-million-dollar lottery prize, she teams up with Zan, whose wealthy family seems the opposite of hers in every way, in order to find the winning ticket.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781984829627
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The Justice Project
When a serious injury derails Matt Barnes's promising football career he finds a new passion interning with the Justice Project to defend the wrongly convicted. While working on the case of alleged killer Ray Richardson, Matt and his fellow intern Sonya find new evidence that plunges them into a murder mystery.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781459822504
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Killing November
Academy Absconditi is not your traditional boarding school. Everyone wields a weapon and deals in secrets. New student November is out of her league. With threats at every turn, she doesn't know who to trust. Then a dead body is discovered and November has to find out who did it before she is the next victim.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780525579083
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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
17 year old Freddy finds herself in an on-again, off-again relationship with charismatic Laura Dean. She knows she needs to break things off so she can get on with her life, but can she?- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 978250312846
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The Liar's Daughter
Piper is dedicated to Father and his commands. She never complains, just does what she is told. Then one day, mean people show up and separate her from her family and turn her world upside down.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780823444182
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Life is Short and Then You Die
Growing up means experiencing lots of things for the first time. The teens in this collection of short stories by well-known YA authors, are having their first experience with death and murder.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781250196392
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Look Both Ways
Ten short stories of young teens as they travel home from school. The stories are woven together as the kids head in different directions on their way home. Each story is poignant and heartfelt with pictures of realistic lives of the neighborhood kids.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781481438285
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The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
Rukhsana cannot escape her family's conservative Muslim traditions when they learn she is gay. She risks losing everything when her parents hold her hostage in their native Bangladesh in order to "convert" her and marry her to a Bangladeshi man.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781338227017
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Love from A to Z
Adam and Zayneb, two Muslim teens, meet on a flight to Qatar. The fact that they meet at all is both a marvel and an oddity. The fact that they keep meeting again? It might just be love.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781534442726
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Lu
"Lightning" Lu is heading into the track championships as co-captain of his team. When unexpected hurdles come up, he wonders if lightning can really strike twice.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781481450249
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The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish
Marvel illustrator Scott Koblish illustrates his own potential demise in a myriad of funny, irreverent, and yet often quite plausible ways as a mechanism for dealing with anxiety.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781452167121
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Michigan vs. the Boys
How far are you willing to go for your sport? Michigan must figure out the answer to this question when her high school cuts the girls' hockey team. After deciding to try out for the boys' team, Michigan will have to endure more than she thought to play the game she loves.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781525301483
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Mike
Floyd, a 15 year old rising tennis star, starts seeing an imaginary boy named Mike during his tennis games. Floyd soon realizes that playing tennis isn't fun anymore, and wants to take control of his life.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781338285369
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The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
Twelve-year-old Lucy has just finished her last online high school course after being struck by lightning leaves her with super-genius math skills. But before she officially graduates, her grandmother makes her pass one final test: attending middle school.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781524767570
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Monument 14: Sky on Fire
Trapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and terrifying chemical weapons spill, brothers Dean and Alex learned how to survive and worked together with twelve other kids to build a refuge from the chaos. But then strangers appeared, destroying their fragile peace, and bringing both fresh disaster and a glimmer of hope.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2014, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2013
- ISBN: 9780312569037
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Moonrise
Joe Moon is in a hot Texas town, renting a shabby apartment, trying to find a job, and visiting the "Farm" every day at 2 p.m. to spend as much time as possible with his brother on death row.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781681193663
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Not If I Save You First
Maddie, daughter of the Head of the Secret Service, and Logan, the President's son, were best friends until something went horribly wrong at a State event. Six years later, Maddie is living in the Alaskan wilderness when Logan unexpectedly reappears with a mystery assailant hot on his heels.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781338134148