LibraryAware Teens

Books for Teens

This is kind of an epic love story
by Kacen Callender

A teen film buff and aspiring screenwriter, jaded after seeing too many real-life relationships go sour, questions his beliefs about the impossibility of happy endings when his former best friend moves back to town.

Also available as an ebook on Overdrive and Hoopla

Also available as an eaudiobook on Overdrive

You're welcome, universe
by Whitney Gardner

Creating a graffiti mural to cover up a nasty slur about her best friend written on the back of their school for the deaf, Julia is expelled and is sent to a mainstream school where she is treated like an outcast while she continues to paint graffiti before a mysterious fellow artist starts adding creative touches to her work.

Also available as an ebook on Overdrive

Girl, stolen
by April Henry

When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more sympathetic toward his wealthy, blind victim, 16-year-old Cheyenne, than toward his greedy father.

Also available as an ebook on Overdrive

Monday's not coming : a novel
by Tiffany D. Jackson

Knowing when her best friend stops showing up at school that something is terribly wrong, Claudia, who depends heavily on her friend to defend her from bullies and help her navigate the toughest time in her life, is baffled when nobody around her seems to remember the last time they saw her friend.

Also available as an ebook on Overdrive and Hoopla

Also available as an eaudiobook on Overdrive and Hoopla

Run
by Kody Keplinger

A wild girl from a dysfunctional family and a straight-laced, legally blind girl with overbearing parents forge an unlikely best friendship that is tested by a brush with the law that compels the pair to run away, a decision that pits them against the authorities, ugly secrets and their own beliefs.

The state of Grace
by Rachael Lucas

Sixteen-year-old Grace has Asperger's, a horse, and a best friend who understands her, which is pretty much all she needs, but when she kisses Gabe and things start to change at home, suddenly everything threatens to fall apart, and it is up to Grace to fix it on her own.

Funny, you don't look autistic : a comedian's guide to life on the spectrum
by Michael McCreary

Stand-up comic and activist Michael McCreary describes how he was diagnosed with ASD in early childhood and found healing and empowerment through journaling, as a comedian and in dispelling misconceptions about autism.

Also available as an ebook on Overdrive and Hoopla

Also available as an eaudiobook on Overdrive

Unbroken : 13 stories starring disabled teens
by Marieke Nijkamp

Edited by the best-selling author of This Is Where It Ends, an inspirational anthology of stories featuring disabled and neurodiverse teen main characters includes contributions by such leading authors as Kody Keplinger, Katherine Locke and Fox Benwell.

Also available as an ebook on Overdrive

Marcelo in the real world
by Francisco X. Stork

Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

Also available on eaudiobook on Overdrive

Roll with it
by Jamie Sumner

Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.

Also available as an ebook on Overdrive

Also available as an eAudiobook on Overdrive