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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda
by Becky Albertalli
Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity—and that of his pen pal—will be revealed.
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Beauty queens
by Libba Bray
When a plane full of teenage beauty queens crashes on a desert island, stranding them away from tiaras and technology, their inherently competitive natures combine with the wild challenges they encounter in survival-testing and hilarious ways.
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The awesome
by Eva Darrows
Meet Maggie, aka THE AWESOME, a 17 year-old apprentice monster hunter with a problem: She can't get her journeyman's license for hunting until she loses her virginity (something about virgin blood turning vampires into pointy-teethed rage monsters), and with interests that slant more toward survival than dates, this could be Maggie's biggest challenge ever.
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Boys don't knit : in public
by Tom Easton
Ordered to perform community service and take up a productive hobby after an incident involving alcohol, his boneheaded friends, and a crossing guard, 17-year-old worrier Ben takes a knitting class that helps him deal with his anxieties in spite of his friends' attitudes.
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The greatest zombie movie ever
by Jeff Strand
Hoping to make something epic after their first YouTube movie flop, Justin and his filmmaking buddies plan a fantastic zombie film starring a beautiful actress only to have their efforts hampered by a one-month timeline and uncooperative extras.
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Scarlett Epstein hates it here
by Anna Breslaw
When her beloved television series is abruptly canceled, Scarlett finds herself without an outlet for her obsessive fan-fiction writing as her favorite message board slowly trickles into obscurity, a situation that forces her to experiment with a different form of writing about the people in her life and explore her real-world relationships.
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The trouble in me
by Jack Gantos
An autobiographical novel that captures a pivotal time in the life of 14-year-old Jack Gantos opens when Jack and his family move to Fort Lauderdale, where young Jack becomes mesmerized by a rebellious neighbor who has just served time for car theft, a fixation that causes Jack to embark on a dangerous course that leads to his imprisonment as described in Hole in My Life.
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The Truth Commission : a novel
by Susan Juby
As a project for her "creative non-fiction module" at a school for the arts, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the Truth Commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets, while Norm's famous sister reveals some very unsettling truths of her own.
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100 sideways miles
by Andrew Smith
Perceiving his world through a sense of space rather than time, Finn Easton struggles with paranoia and heartbreak while embarking on a road trip to a prospective college, where his zany friend and he become unlikely heroes.
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Trouble is a friend of mine
by Stephanie Tromly
Befriended by Digby, a charismatic young vigilante, who cons her into assisting with several illegal ventures including one that actually saves their hometown, Zoe evaluates her choices while discovering that she is falling in love with him.
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Six impossible things
by Fiona Wood
When his father reveals his gay orientation and leaves the family, Dan's considerably reduced circumstances force him to move to a new home and school before he resolves to accomplish six goals, including kissing a pretty but indifferent neighbor.
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