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Realistic FictionHigh School
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The problem with forever
by Jennifer L Armentrout
Diligently practicing silence to shield herself from the traumas of her past, Mallory is forced to enroll in public school after years of homeschooling with loving adoptive parents, a challenge that is complicated by her reunion with Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her early childhood who is also grappling with lingering scars from the past.
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The truth of right now
by Kara Lee Corthron
Returning to her privileged Manhattan high school after a harrowing sophomore year that resulted in estrangement from her closest friends, Lily, a white girl, bonds with artistic black transfer student Dari and finds their romance challenged by unexpected obstacles, including Dari's domineering Trinidadian father.
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Blood Family
by Anne Fine
Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. Rescue comes when he is seven but lasting damage has been done. Sent to live with a kind foster family, and then adopted, Edward struggles to adapt to normal life. Even as a smart and curious teenager it’s still clear to his new family and schoolmates there’s something odd about him. Then in a science museum, Edward sees an image that shocks him to the core and robs him of his hard won sense of safety.
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How not to disappear
by Clare Furniss
Stuck at home during a summer when she discovers she is pregnant with her absent boyfriend's baby, teen Hattie embarks on a journey of self-discovery alongside her dementia-afflicted, hard-drinking great-aunt. By the author of The Year of the Rat.
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Relative Strangers
by Paula Garner
Eighteen-year-old Jules has always wished for a close-knit family. She never knew her father, and her ex-addict mother has always seemed more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only daughter. Jules’s life and future look as flat and unchanging as her small Illinois town. Then a simple quest to find a baby picture for the senior yearbook leads to an earth-shattering discovery: for most of the first two years of her life, Jules lived in foster care. Reeling from feelings of betrayal and with only the flimsiest of clues, Jules sets out to learn the truth about her past.
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Under rose-tainted skies
by Louise Gornall
Struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, Norah bonds with Luke, her neighbor, who encourages her to let him into her world before she becomes convinced that a normal girlfriend would be healthier for him.
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Breaking faith
by E. Graziani
Witnessing a traumatic event at a young age and growing up in a poor part of town where drug abuse is commonplace, Faith Emily Hansen loses everything before falling into a spiral of addiction herself.
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After the Fall
by Kate Hart
A young adult debut about a teen girl who wrestles with rumors, reputation, and her relationships with two brothers.
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Allegedly
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got Ted—and their unborn child—to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary’s fate now lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But does anyone know the real Mary?
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Done dirt cheap
by Sarah Nicole Lemon
Tourmaline Harris and Virginia Campbell, two teenagers from opposite sides of the track, join forces to overthrow the people in their southern Virginia town who exploit them.
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The radius of us
by Marie F. Marquardt
Told in alternating voices, follows the growing relationship of two teenaged victims of violence who are struggling to overcome trauma and help each other cope.
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Just fly away
by Andrew McCarthy
A 15-year-old girl questions everything she has ever believed about life and family after discovering that her father had a brief affair and that she has an 8-year-old half-brother. A first novel by the author of the best-selling The Longest Way Home.
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Just a girl
by Carrie Mesrobian
When her divorced parents start living together again, Rianne finds herself questioning her future, her relationship with Luke, and why she's gotten stuck with an "easy girl" reputation for doing the same exact things as guys without any judgment
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Optimists die first
by Susin Nielsen-Fernlund
Growing paranoid and shutting herself off from the world after a family tragedy, 16-year-old Petula is forced to attend an art therapy class where a school newcomer with a prosthetic arm becomes her partner in a hilarious project. By the award-winning author of We Are All Made of Molecules.
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You bring the distant near
by Mitali Perkins
Told in alternating teen voices across three generations, an exploration of sisterhood, first loves, friendship and the inheritance of culture traces a family that is shaped by Indian-American identity, a forbidden biracial love affair and social activism. By the author of Rickshaw Girl.
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The disturbed girl's dictionary
by NoNieqa Ramos
Classified as "disturbed" by her school and the Child Protective Services that took away her little brother from the home they share with a volatile parent, 15-year-old Macy explains her world in unflinching detail, revealing why she acts out, why her brother was taken away, her relationship with her incarcerated father and why she is determined to protect her best friend by any means necessary.
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The education of Margot Sanchez
by Lilliam Rivera
Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.
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Because of the sun
by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Hardening her heart in order to survive life with a brash and seemingly unloving mother only to be sent to the home of an unknown aunt when her mother dies, Dani forges an unexpected bond with a boy who seems to understand how much she is hurting. By the author of The Downside of Being Charlie.
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Eliza and her monsters
by Francesca Zappia
When 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. By the author of Made You Up.
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