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Tear-jerkers for fans of The Fault in Our Stars
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Moonrise
by Sarah Crossan
With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder
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You'll miss me when I'm gone
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Eighteen-year-old twins Adina, a viola prodigy, and Tovah, a future surgeon, find their relationship tested when they learn that one of them will develop Huntington's, the degenerative disease ravaging their mother
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The Sidekicks by Will KostakisAn unexpected friendship is forged among three very different teen boys as they mourn the death of a close mutual friend whose accident and loss are remembered in respective ways.
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Paper butterflies
by Lisa Heathfield
Enduring a harsh existence with her stepmother and stepsister while hiding the truth from everyone including her father, June befriends a boy from a large, loving, chaotic family and begins to find the strength to pursue her freedom.
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Love, hate & other filters by Samira AhmedAmerican-born Maya Aziz, a Muslim teen, struggles with a growing disparity between her dreams and her parents' expectations that she pursue a traditional life, a situation that is complicated by a terrorist attack by a prime suspect who happens to share her last name, causing her suburban Chicago family to be targeted by hate.
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All That Was by Karen RiversForging a deep bond in spite of differences, best friends Piper and Sloane are wrenched apart by a betrayal that culminates in a death and difficult choices about how to make amends when someone is no longer there.
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The Last to Let Go by Amber SmithWhen her dreams for an education and a new start are shattered by her mother's arrest for killing her abusive father, Brooke struggles to care for her siblings while wondering if her mother's acts were premeditated or in self-defense, a situation that transforms Brooke's sense of identity and place in the world.
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Now is everything by Amy GilesA debut novel told in alternating "then and now" chapters follows the experiences of a suicidal girl from a secretive family who tests the limits of what she is willing to do to protect her past, present and future.
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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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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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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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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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