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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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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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Hurricane Child
Twelve-year-old Caroline is a Hurricane Child, born on Water Island during a storm. Coming into this world during a hurricane is unlucky, and Caroline has had her share of bad luck already. She's hated by everyone in her small school, she can see things that no one else can see, and -- worst of all -- her mother left home one day and never came back. With no friends and days filled with heartache, Caroline is determined to find her mother. When a new student, Kalinda, arrives, Caroline's luck begins to turn around. Kalinda, a solemn girl from Barbados with a special smile for everyone, seems to see the things Caroline sees, too. Joined by their common gift, Kalinda agrees to help Caroline look for her mother, starting with a mysterious lady dressed in black. Soon, they discover the healing power of a close friendship between girls. Debut author Kheryn Callender presents a cadenced work of magical realism.- Fiction
- Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award 2019
- ISBN: 9781338129311
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I Become Shadow
When Ren Sharpe was fourteen, she was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called FATE and trained to be a human weapon. Now, four years later, she receives her assignment: protect Gareth Young at all costs. Now, four years later, she receives her assignment: protect Gareth Young at all costs.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2015
- ISBN: 9781616953584
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I Have Lost My Way
Three young adults accidentally collide in New York City and embark on a single day of adventure, friendship, secrets, and loss that will change their lives forever. Lewis, Crouch and Malhotra are equally exemplary in portraying the characters in happiness, retrospection, growth, and sorrow.- Audiobook, Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780525636267
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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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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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I, Claudia
In this political thriller set in a privileged high school, underestimated and unreliable narrator Claudia chronicles her rise to power. Sharp, biting humor pervades McCoy's novel about vicious high school students embroiled in an explosive struggle for control.- Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2019
- ISBN: 9781512448467
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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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Illegal
After realizing his brother has left, 12 year old Ebo follows the trail of his brother on the journey out of Ghana towards the safety of Europe. This beautiful and heartbreaking graphic novel is brought to life by a full cast and impactful sound effects.- Audiobook, Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9781974924610
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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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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 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
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In Other Lands
“What's your name?” “Serene.” “Serena?” Elliot asked. “Serene,” said Serene. “My full name is Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle.” Elliot's mouth fell open. “That is badass.” The Borderlands aren't like anywhere else. Don't try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border—unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and—best of all as far as Elliot is concerned—mermaids. Elliot? Who's Elliot? Elliot is thirteen years old. He's smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. Sometimes more than a tiny bit. When his class goes on a field trip and he can see a wall that no one else can see, he is given the chance to go to school in the Borderlands. It turns out that on the other side of the wall, classes involve a lot more weaponry and fitness training and fewer mermaids than he expected. On the other hand, there's Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle, an elven warrior who is more beautiful than anyone Elliot has ever seen, and then there's her human friend Luke: sunny, blond, and annoyingly likeable. There are lots of interesting books. There's even the chance Elliot might be able to change the world.- Romance, Fiction
- Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2019
- ISBN: 9781618731203
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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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The Infinite Noise
When Caleb's mood swings become too much for him, he starts therapy. There, he finds that he is an Atypical, a person with heightened abilities. After his ability draws him to Adam, he begins to feel an unexplained connection. Can Adam help Caleb control this superpower?- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250297518
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Insurgent
As war surges in the factions of dystopian Chicago all around her, Tris attempts to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2013
- ISBN: 9780062024046
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Internment
In America's not-so-distant future, Muslim citizens are forced into internment camps, including 17-year-old Layla and her parents. Once there, Layla, with the help of fellow internees and an unlikely alliance with a guard, leads a resistance movement inside the camp.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780316522694
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It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
A selection of #OwnVoices short stories about Jewish identities, from a variety of authors.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780525646167
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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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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
When a tornado rips through town, twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed and her family of five is displaced. Ivy feels invisible and ignored in the aftermath of the storm--and what's worse, her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing. Mysteriously, Ivy's drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from someone telling her to open up about her identity. Ivy thinks--and hopes--that this someone might be her classmate, another girl for whom Ivy has begun to develop a crush. Will Ivy find the strength and courage to follow her true feelings?- Fiction
- Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature 2019
- ISBN: 9780316515474
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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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Kill Me Softly
Mirabelle's past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents' tragic deaths to her guardians' half-truths about why she can't return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday—and discovers a world she never could have imagined.- Fiction
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2016, Best Fiction for Young Adults 2013, Teens' Top Ten 2013
- ISBN: 9781606843239
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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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The Kingdom
Ana is a Fantasist—a human-android hybrid—engineered to bring pleasure to guests of the high-tech theme park the Kingdom. Designed for docility and no independent thought, Ana and her six Fantasist sisters shock the country as they begin going homicidal and suicidal.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250293855
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The Kiss of Deception
In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight―but she doesn't―and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom―to a prince she has never met.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2015
- ISBN: 9780805099232
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La Bastarda
The first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to be translated into English, La Bastarda is the story of the orphaned teen Okomo, who lives under the watchful eye of her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. Forbidden from seeking him out, she enlists the help of other village outcasts: her gay uncle and a gang of “mysterious” girls reveling in their so-called indecency. Drawn into their illicit trysts, Okomo finds herself falling in love with their leader and rebelling against the rigid norms of Fang culture.- Fiction
- Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2019
- ISBN: 9781936932238
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Lady Midnight
It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman who just wants to prove that her parents weren't killed by Sebastian in the Dark War. Now she has the chance to do just that, and get Mark back from the wild hunt.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2017
- ISBN: 9781442468351
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Ladycastle
When the King and all the men of the castle die, it's time for the women to knight up. When King Mancastle and his mighty vassals ride off on a crusade, the women left behind are not at all put out—that's a lot less armor polishing to do. Of course, when the men get themselves eaten by a dragon and leave a curse that attracts monsters to the castle . . . well, the women take umbrage with that. Now, Merinor, the blacksmith's wife is King, Princess Aeve is the Captain, and the only remaining (and least capable) knight, Sir Riddick, is tasked with teaching the ladies of the castle how to fight, defend, build, and do all manner of noisy things the men had done while the women assumed they were just drunk- Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Fiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Fiction 2019, Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781684150328
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Last Bus to Everland
Brody's brother is an overachiever, his sister is a star, and he feels like a side character in his own life—until a cute boy named Nico introduces him to "Everland." Now Brody must decide if he would rather live in the real world or in a fantasy.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250149930
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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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Lawn Boy
For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew—he knows that he's got to be the one to shake things up if he's ever going to change his life.- Fiction
- Alex Awards 2019
- ISBN: 9781616202620
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Learning Seventeen
New Hope Academy, or, as seventeen-year-old Jane Learning likes to call it, No Hope, is a Baptist reform school where Jane is currently being held captive. Of course, smart, sarcastic Jane has no interest in reforming, failing to see any benefit to pretending to play well with others. But then Hannah shows up, a gorgeous bad girl with fiery hair and an even stormier disposition. She shows Jane how to live a full and fulfilling life even when the world tells you you're wrong, and how to believe in a future outside the "prison" walls. Jane soon learns, though, that Hannah is quietly battling some demons of her own.- Fiction
- Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2019
- ISBN: 9781459815537
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Learning to Breathe
Indy is sent away from home to live with relatives in the city so that she doesn't fall into the same lifestyle as her mother, but trouble finds Indy. She learns to carve out a future without letting her past and the choices of others dictate who she will be.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9781534406018
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Legend
June, a fifteen-year-old military prodigy, is hunting Day, the outlaw she believes is responsible for her brother's death. What will happen when the two meet and discover the government is corrupt?- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2012
- ISBN: 9780399256752
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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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The Light at the Bottom of the World
At the end of the twenty-first century, humans live beneath the water. Leyla McQueen gets picked to participate in an obstacle course with 99 other people, and if she wins, she can pick any prize—and free her father, who has been jailed on false charges.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781368036887
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Like a Love Story
Three teens—an Iranian youth hiding his sexuality for fear of death, an openly gay photographer, and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle—all find love, along with their voices, as activists in 1989 New York during the height of the AIDS crisis.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062839367
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A Line in the Dark
The most important thing is that Jess Wong is Angie Redmond's best friend, even if Angie can't see how she truly feels. It's okay that Jess is the girl on the sidelines that nobody notices. That means she's free to watch everyone else and be at Angie's side. But when Angie starts falling for Margot, a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess can already see what's going to happen. And suddenly her gift for observation is a curse. As Angie drags Jess further into Margot's circle, Jess finds more than her friend's growing crush. Secrets lie just beneath the carefree surface of this world, and when they come out, Jess knows Angie won't be able to handle the consequences. When the inevitable darkness finally descends, Angie will need her best friend.- Fiction
- Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2019
- ISBN: 9780735227439
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A Lite Too Bright
Arthur Louis Pullman the Third, the troubled grandson of a famously reclusive Beat-generation writer, sets out on a cross-country train journey to discover to truth behind the last week of his grandfather's life. Puzzles and poetry lead to self-discovery in this dynamic incarnation of the great American road trip novel.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780062662002
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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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Love & Gelato
After the death of her mother, Lina goes to visit Italy at her mother's wish, as she'd lived in Italy for part of her life and loved it immensely. While in Italy, Lina discovers some well-kept secrets about her mother's life there and Lina's mysteriously absent father.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2017
- ISBN: 9781481432542
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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 and Other Carnivorous Plants
Freshman year at Harvard was the most anticlimactic year of Danny's life. She's failing pre-med and drifting apart from her best friend. One by one, Danny is losing all the underpinnings of her identity. When she finds herself attracted to an older, edgy girl who she met in rehab for an eating disorder, she finally feels like she might be finding a new sense of self. But when tragedy strikes, her self-destructive tendencies come back to haunt her as she struggles to discover who that self really is.- Realistic Fiction, Fiction
- Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2019
- ISBN: 9780316436724
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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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Lovely War
It's 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. She's a shy and talented pianist; he's a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. When they fall in love, it's immediate and deep – and cut short when James is shipped off to the killing fields.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Teens' Top Ten 2020
- ISBN: 9780451469939
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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