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FamiliesThe good and the bad in YA literature.
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Still life with tornado
by A. S. King
Fearing she is suffering from an existential crisis when her creativity becomes blocked, talented artist Sarah confronts visions of her past and future selves before awakening to the devastatingly unoriginal brokenness of her parents' toxic marriage.
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Palisades Park
by Alan Brennert
Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars and the park's eventual closing in 1971.
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We are the ants
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn't sure he wants to. After all, life hasn't been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer's. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend's suicide last year. But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it...or let the world--and his pain--be destroyed forever.
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Suffer love
by Ashley Herring Blake
Falling in love at first sight with a girl he later discovers to be the daughter of the man who destroyed his loved ones, Sam struggles to choose between his heart and the truth about the scandal linking their families.
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The lonely
by Ainslie Hogarth
After she discovers The Terrible Thing, Easter Deetz goes looking for her older sister, Julia, but ends up pinned under a boulder in the woods and reliving memories of her family as The Something Coming draws closer.
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Finding hope
by Colleen Nelson
Seeking a fresh start, Hope is excited to become a Ravenhurst Academy boarding student, but when her drug-addicted brother turns up at the school and her online boyfriend suddenly becomes untrustworthy, her new life begins to fall apart.
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Gabi, a girl in pieces
by Isabel Quintero
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
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Ascending the boneyard
by C. G. Watson
Overwhelmed by a devastating accident that changed everything for his younger brother and prompted his mom's abandonment, Caleb immerses himself in an obsessive, surreal game that causes him to lose his grip on reality.
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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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Reality Boy
by A. S. King
Haunted by his past as a child reality television celebrity, teen Gerald Faust struggles with violent anger that has relegated him to a very lonely world and the special education program at school, where he starts to feel dangerously close to snapping--until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.
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