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Tear-jerkers for fans of The Fault in Our Stars
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Everything all at once
by Katrina Leno
When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice
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Starfish by Akemi Dawn BowmanA half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and a narcissistic mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school before accepting an invitation to tour other art schools on the West Coast.
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The Nowhere Girls
by Amy Lynn Reed
"Three misfit girls come together to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew and in the process start a movement that transforms the lives of everyone around them"
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Goodnight, Boy
by Nikki Sheehan
When his adoptive father locks him in an outdoor kennel, JC recounts to his dog Boy how an earthquake swept his family away and forced him from his native Haiti to a new country, and he begins planning a journey to freedom
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Speak of me as I am by Sonia BelascoA girl mourning the death of her mother and a boy whose best friend committed suicide find companionship and healing through artistic endeavors, including a Shakespeare production at their school.
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This impossible light by Lily MyersThe YouTube slam poetry star of Shrinking Women presents a novel in verse centering around the challenges of body image, tracing the experiences of a teen who develops bulimia in her effort to find purpose, control and confidence in response to her family's dysfunction and a best friend's estrangement.
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Eliza and her monsters by Francesca ZappiaWhen the anonymous teen creator of a wildly popular webcomic is tempted by a school newcomer to pursue real-world relationships, everything she has worked so hard to build crumbles in the wake of their highly publicized romance.
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Four weeks, five people by Jennifer YuFive teens who struggle with mental-health and social challenges bond over their respective difficulties and form unexpected connections in their efforts to prove that they are more than their problems.
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Letters to the lost
by Brigid Kemmerer
Leaving letters to her late photojournalist mother on her grave, Juliet is surprised when she receives an anonymous reply from an equally lonely boy who she does not realize is one of her classmates.
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Asking for it
by Louise O'Neill
After beautiful eighteen-year-old Emma O'Donovan is found on her doorstep disheveled, bleeding, and disoriented, with no memory of the party she attended the night before, viral photographs from the party set off a criminal investigation that divides herquiet Irish town
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Bang : a novel by Barry LygaA decade after accidentally shooting and killing his infant sister when he was four years old, Sebastian is haunted by the guilt and horror of the incident and bonds with a new friend before resolving to get another gun in the hope of rectifying his past.
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The pain eater
by Beth Goobie
Maddy wants to keep the fact that she was attacked a secret, but finds this intention difficult when one of her perpetrators is placed in her English class and they must complete a group assignment together
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The You I've Never Known by Ellen HopkinsA novel in both verse and prose by the best-selling author of Triangles follows the struggles of a girl who longs for a permanent home after years spent moving with her nomadic father, a situation that is shaped by a special friend and daunting revelations about the mother who abandoned her.
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We are okay by Nina LaCourRunning back to college and shutting out everyone from her life in California after a traumatic summer that nobody else knows about, Marin is forced to confront what happened during a lonely, fateful winter break. By the award-winning author of Hold Still.
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Unbecoming by Jenny DownhamA multigenerational story by the award-winning author of Before I Die finds Katie bonding with her dementia-afflicted grandmother, whose zeal for life and tragic losses are gradually revealed while Katie comes to terms with her own relationships and sexuality.
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Teach me to forget
by Erica M. Chapman
Attempting suicide in the wake of her younger sister's death and her family's estrangement, Ellery is stopped by a classmate who endeavors to win her trust while hiding a personal agenda.
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Aftermath
by Clara Kensie
Four years after being kidnapped, sixteen-year-old Charlotte returns home to find her family ripped apart, but before she can try to reunite them, or help find the body of her captor's first victim, she must come to terms with her past
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Life in a fishbowl
by Len Vlahos
Fifteen-year-old Jackie is determined to reclaim her family's privacy and dignity by ending a reality television program about her father's terminal brain tumor
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