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Books for fans of John Green
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Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. SchmidtTwelve-year-old Jack narrates the story of foster teen Joseph, who after serving time in a juvenile facility has been placed with a family on a rural Maine farm and who resolves to track down the daughter he has never met. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.
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Challenger deep by Neal ShustermanA brilliant but troubled high school student pretends to engage in sports activities and uses his artistic talents to document his voyage to the world's most southern point while his friends observe his increasingly unbalanced behavior.
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Breakaway by Katarina M. SpearsDepending on his three best friends after the tragic death of his sister, soccer player Jason unexpectedly falls in love and struggles with changing peer dynamics in the wake of his friends' respective life changes.
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Your voice is all I hear
by Leah Scheier
"When her only friend transfers to a different high school, April braces for the worst year of her life, until she meets a charismatic boy named Jonah, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia. When his health declines, April must make an impossible choice: stick with the boy she loves or let him go so they can both heal"
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Paperweight by Meg HastonEnduring months in a treatment center for a life-threatening eating disorder, 17-year-old Stevie is haunted by guilt for the accident that caused her brother's death and secretly plans to commit suicide.
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Apple and Rain
by Sarah Crossan
When her imagined perfect life with her estranged mother begins to unravel, fourteen-year-old Apple finds comfort in reading and writing poetry
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Me and Earl and the dying girl : a novel by Jesse AndrewsSeventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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The Heartbreakers
by Ali Novak
When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her dreams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?
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Invincible by Amy Lynn ReedMiraculously surviving what was supposed to be a terminal cancer diagnosis, Evie feels suffocated by her family's and boyfriend's doting attentions before falling for a trouble-making boy who makes her feel truly alive.
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The brilliant light of amber sunrise
by Matthew Crow
Determined to forge an independent life away from his dysfunctional family, Francis is diagnosed with leukemia and falls in love with fellow patient Amber, an outspoken girl who helps him navigate a shared world of treatments, doctors and parents.
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All the bright places
by Jennifer Niven
Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world. A first young adult novel by the author of American Blonde.
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I was here
by Gayle Forman
Devastated by her best friend's suicide, Cody discovers links to a shady online support group that she infiltrates before realizing that she is also falling prey to their seductive messages. By the award-winning author of If I Stay.
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I'll give you the sun
by Jandy Nelson
A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor.
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One death, nine stories
by Marc Aronson
Interconnected stories reveal the reactions of nine people--friends, an ex-girlfriend, his sister, even someone who never knew him in life--to the unexpected death of charismatic nineteen-year-old Kevin Nicholas, and expose his darker side.
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Damaged
by Amy Lynn Reed
Numb after the death of her best friend, Camille, Kinsey starts to shut down but Hunter, Camille's mysterious boyfriend, has other ideas and whisks Kinsey off on a multi-state road trip to forget the ghosts of their pasts and their own fears.
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Belzhar : a novel
by Meg Wolitzer
A young adult debut by the best-selling author of The Interestings traces the experiences of Jam, who is sent to a therapeutic Vermont boarding school where she confronts her losses in the aftermath of her beloved boyfriend's shattering death.
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Zac & Mia
by A. J. Betts
A U.S. release of an award-winning book from Australia follows the relationship between a leukemia survivor and the not-so-stoic cancer patient new friend whom he cannot forget after they are released from the hospital.
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Rumble
by Ellen Hopkins
Matthew Turner doesn't have faith in anything—not in his family, which is in shambles after his younger brother was bullied into suicide; or his so-called friends or some all-powerful creator; but when a horrific event plunges Matt into a dark, silent place, he begins to question everything he's ever disbelieved.
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Breathe, Annie, breathe
by Miranda Kenneally
To honor her dead boyfriend and cope with her grief and guilt, college student Annie trains for a marathon with athletic Jeremiah, who flirts with Annie on the trails and makes her feel alive and happy and guilty all at the same time.
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Two girls staring at the ceiling
by Lucy Frank
An evocative novel in verse traces the unfolding friendship between two very different teen girls who share a hospital room and an illness from which one gradually recovers while the other languishes.
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Love letters to the dead : a novel
by Ava Dellaira
A troubled teen writes poignant letters to influential celebrities who died young, confronting in the process her own efforts to fit in, navigate her splintering family and come to terms with a past trauma. A first novel.
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