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After life
by Gayle Forman
Amber bikes home one spring, seven years after she died after being hit by a car while riding that bike, and her return impacts those around her as she struggles to learn how and why she got a second chance. Simultaneous eBook.
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Not like other girls
by Meredith Adamo
When her former best friend Maddie disappears after coming to her for help, Jo-Lynn, an outcast ever since her nude photos were leaked, finds a way back inside the clique where she is forced to confront everything she'd rather forget to find the girl who betrayed her.
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Our shouts echo
by Jade Adia
Building a doomsday bunker in her backyard during her first summer in LA, 16-year-old Niarah Holloway is filled with anxiety and dread and whose mantra“be prepared” doesn't prepare her for falling in love.
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And then there was us
by Kern Carter
After years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother, fourteen-year-old Coi moved in with her father, and together they created a peaceful life. But now, four years later, that peace is shattered when her mother dies. While Coi struggles to find kindness in her heart for the woman who did nothing but hurt her, her mother's passing does help reopen the door to her mother's side of the family. It's only through reconnecting with her estranged family members, especially her younger half-sister Kayla, that Coi's long-held views about her mother are challenged. And when Coi begins to see visions of her mother in her dreams, she is forced to ask herself what it means to forgive and be forgiven, and, most importantly, what it means to be family.
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Ariel crashes a train
by Olivia A. Cole
Afraid of her own mind and the violent fantasies she can't control, Ariel finds herself questioning everything when a summer job at a carnival brings new friends into her world who show her that just because she has OCD, she's not broken—and not alone.
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The notes
by Catherine Con Morse
A reserved Chinese American teen at a Southern performing arts boarding school comes into her own under the tutelage of a glamorous new piano teacher while grappling with her first love, adolescent and academic pressures, and mysterious, personal notes.
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The atlas of us
by Kristin Dwyer
Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her team--Books, Sugar, Junior, and King--she heads into the wilderness. As she sheds the lies she's built up as walls to protect herself, she realizes that four strangers might know her better than anyone has before. And with the end of the trail racing to meet them, Maps is left counting down the days until she returns to her old life--without her new family, and without King, who's become more than just a friend.
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The great cool ranch dorito in the sky
by Josh Galarza
Fueling all his anxieties into his comic book series, Brett must face the painful truths of his real life and his escalating eating disorder when someone posts his journal—and his deepest insecurities—online.
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Thirsty : a novel
by Jas Hammonds
Having one goal: to join a sorority that promises lifelong connections to a network of powerful women of color, 18-year-old Blake finds courage in alcohol and as pledging intensifies, so does her drinking, and she must decide how far she's willing to go to achieve her dream.
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Even if it breaks your heart
by Erin Hahn
Determined to follow the list his late best friend left behind of things he wants him to accomplish, 19-year-old bullrider Case Michaels is led to 18-year-old Winnie Sutton, whom he ropes into competing on the rodeo circuit and becoming his friend.
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Pick the Lock
by A. S. King
When she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos—her lifetime—Jane, who lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion while her mother tours the country, discovers nothing is normal about her toxic family.
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Prom babies
by Kekla Magoon
"A multi-generational novel beginning with three teen girls who become pregnant on prom night, and picking up as their three teens head to prom eighteen years later"
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This is me trying
by Racquel Marie
Unmoored after her boyfriend Bryce commits suicide, goth loner Beatriz navigates loss, love, mental illness, forgiveness and what it means to build a future after unfathomable loss.
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Under this red rock
by Mindy McGinnis
After her brother's suicide, Neely works as a tour guide in the caverns where she meets beautiful, strong, confident Mila, but when a drug-fueled midnight staff party results in Mila's brutal murder, Neely must figure out who killed her?—?and face the possibility it might've been her.
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Desert echoes
by Abdi Nazemian
Two years after the boy he loved disappeared during their trip to Joshua Tree, 17-year-old Kam returns to Joshua Tree to find closure but instead finds himself in danger of facing a similar fate, forcing him to reckon with the truth of his past relationship.
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Not dead enough
by Tyffany D. Neiheiser
"Charlotte survived the car crash that killed her boyfriend Jerry, but that night, everything changed. Charlotte wants desperately to get back to "normal"--whatever that means now--and start reconnecting with friends she hasn't spoken to in months. And she's trying to work through her PTSD with the help of her therapist, only she can't tell the truth about Jerry or what really happened the night he died. Just when Charlotte thinks she might be moving on, someone claiming to be Jerry starts sending her threatening messages, saying things only he would know. But it can't really be Jerry because there's no such thing as ghosts. The cold spots in her room must be a draft, and the noises she hears must be the house creaking. There has to be a logical explanation for all of it. Because if ghosts are real, then Jerry came back for her--just like he always said he would"
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When the world tips over
by Jandy Nelson
"Years ago, the Fall kids' father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen...is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame or self-destruction. Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up...Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever"
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Gita Desai is not here to shut up
by Sonia Patel
When a painful secret resurfaces while a freshman at Stanford, 18-year-old Gita Desai ditches the books night after night in favor of partying and hooking up with strangers until she realizes the only way she can move forward is to stop shutting up about the past.
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Dead girls don't say sorry
by Alex Ritany
Months after surviving the accident that killed her best friend Julia, Nora Radford is still unraveling the lies Julia told, disguised as friendship, while everyone around her moves on with their lives. Simultaneous eBook.
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Girls like her
by Melanie Sumrow
Told through a collection of letters, meeting notes, news articles and court transcripts, this unflinching story follows 15-year-old homeless teen Ruby, who is accused of murdering a wealthy businessman and must make desperate choices to prove her innocence with the help of her state-appointed caseworker.
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When Haru was here
by Dustin Thao
Eric, a lonely nineteen-year-old grappling with the loss of his best friend, retreats into his imagination and finds solace in a memory of a day spent with a boy named Haru, but Eric's imagination and reality blur together when he walks into a coffee shop and sees Haru.
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The half-life of love
by Brianna Bourne
With only 41 days, 9 hours and 42 minutes to live, Flint cuts himself off from everything as he waits to die, then finds his world colliding with September, who embodies joy and light, which becomes the start of a once-in-a-lifetime love despite their secrets.
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Ever since
by Alena Bruzas
Falling in love with her best friend's boyfriend, Rumi, 17-year-old Virginia, the queen of bad choices, discovers his little sister is being groomed for abuse by a respected member of the community and must choose between staying quiet or coming forward. Simultaneous eBook.
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Always isn't forever
by J. C. Cervantes
After he tragically dies, Hart is given a second chance in the body of local bad boy, Jameson, and will do everything in his power to win back Ruby, his soulmate and the love of his life.
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Dear Medusa
by Olivia A. Cole
This intense and intimate novel-in-verse follows 16-year-old Alicia, who feels isolated and alone after being sexually abused by a teacher then cast as the slut who asked for it, until she receives mysterious letters hinting at another victim, forcing her to face her trauma and fight back.
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Funeral songs for dying girls
by Cherie Dimaline
To save her father's job at the crematorium and the only home she's ever known, Winifred and her con-artist cousin start offering ghost tours until Winifred meets an actual ghost who causes her to question everything she believes about life, love and death.
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The quiet and the loud
by Helena Fox
In this electrifying follow-up to How It Feels to Float, George seeks the quiet in the loud world around her when the past comes rushing back and sends her into the arms of a girl who brings hope and light into her otherwise dark life.
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The coldest winter I ever spent
by Ann Jacobus
Eighteen-year-old Del is in a healthier place more than a year after a suicide attempt, but her aunt's terminal cancer diagnosis forces her to confront the demons she has been keeping at bay
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Don't ask if I'm okay
by Jessica Kara
A year after the tragic death of his best friend, Gage tries to move on, but the longer he ignores his grief, the more it warps from sadness into uncontrollable anger, undermining everything he is trying to do and to be.
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The Minus-One Club
by Kekla Magoon
Joining a secret group called the“Minus-One Club,” whose members have all suffered the tragic loss of someone they loved, 15-year-old Kermit finds his crush Matt's headstrong approach to life helping to relieve his constant despair.
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Remind me to hate you later
by Lizzy Mason
After the suicide death of her best friend Jules, grief-stricken Natalie is determined to expose Jules' mother—a “parenting influencer”—who is to blame in a world distorted by celebrity and the manipulations of social media.
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We are all so good at smiling
by Amber McBride
Whimsy, who is clinically depressed, befriends a boy named Faerry, with whom she feels a magical connection, and together they brave the Forest, a place of monsters, fairy tales and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years.
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The immeasurable depth of you
by Maria Ingrande Mora
After her mother interprets one of her blog posts as a suicide note, 15-year-old death-obsessed Brynn is banished to stay with her father who lives “off the grid” in the Florida mangroves, where she must confront her worst fears to save the girl with whom she has fallen in love.
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The sharp edge of silence
by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
In one of the most elite private high schools in the nation, Quinn, Charlotte and Max question everything they thought they knew about themselves and the school when Quinn's sexual assault becomes public, implicating one of the top-tier athletes on campus.
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No perfect places
by Steven Salvatore
After their dad, imprisoned for embezzlement, dies unexpectedly, twins Alex and Olly Brucke find their strong bond starting to fracture as Alex turns to drugs and Olly struggles with a secret his dad ordered him to keep.
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The next new Syrian girl
by Ream Shukairy
When their worlds collide, Khadija Shami, a sheltered Syrian American high school senior with a monstrous ego, and Leene Tahir, a Syrian refugee doing her best to survive school and family pressures while battling panic attacks, become the unlikeliest of friends.
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16 & pregnant : a novel
by Lala Thomas
Best friends Erykah and Kelly have their junior year planned out, but everything changes when Erykah finds out she is pregnant, and as Kelly tries to support her throughout the pregnancy the two girls learn some harsh realities about the world and are forced to make some huge decisions
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Heartbreak symphony
by Laekan Zea Kemp
When two musically gifted teens, Mia and Aarón, cross paths, they must work together to face their fears but soon discover something more terrifying than performing in front of an audience—falling in love.
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Medusa
by Jessie Burton
Exiled to a far-flung island, Medusa has little company except for the snakes adorning her head instead of hair until a beautiful boy named Perseus arrives, disrupting her lonely existence and unleashing desire, love, and betrayal
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Things we couldn't say
by Jay Coles
Just as Gio is getting his life together, he must deal with the return of his mother, who abandoned the family years ago, while dealing with his crush on a basketball player who is giving him mixed signals.
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Sunny G's Series of rash decisions
by Navdeep Singh Dhillon
When Mindi Vang steals his notebook filled with rash decisions on prom night, Sunny chases after her and has an unexpected all-night adventure filled with reckless, wonderful, romantic, stupid, life-changing decisions.
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Maybe we're electric
by Val Emmich
Stranded together in the Thomas Edison museum during a snowstorm, Tegan and star athlete Mac Durant cast aside their public personas and family pressures long enough to forge an unexpected bond over one unforgettable night.
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Sugaring off
by Gillian French
Living on her aunt and uncle's maple sugar farm, 17-year-old Owl, partially deaf from an early childhood tragedy that ended in her father's incarceration, risks a forbidden romance with a dangerous young man hired to help with the sugaring off.
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The wolves are waiting
by Natasha Friend
In a small college town, 15-year-old Nora Melchionda finds her life irrevocably changed by an attack on a golf course– one she cannot remember and one she chooses to ignore until her silence hurts other people.
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You'd be home now
by Kathleen Glasgow
After she and her stoner older brother are involved in a car accident that killed Candy MontClaire, Emory, who has always been told who she is, must decide for herself who she wants to be in a town riddled with secrets.
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The secrets we keep
by Cassie Gustafson
When her best friend Hannah accuses her father of a heinous crime, Emma, who is harboring a vile secret, must testify against Hannah to keep her family together, causing the line to blur between reality and the dark fairy tales she writes to help her survive.
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Lawless spaces
by Corey Ann Haydu
Trying to find her place in the world and understand her difficult relationship with her mother, Mimi uses the journals of her grandmother, great-grandmother and beyond to learn about the unyielding bonds of family and the relentless spirit of womanhood.
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The silence that binds us
by Joanna Ho
When her brother's suicide results in racial accusations being hurled against her parents for putting too much “pressure” on him, Maybelline Chen challenges these ugly stereotypes through her writing and decides to speak out despite the consequences.
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Howl
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Attacked by a monster, Virgil Knox, the new kid in the town of Merritt where no one believes him, keeps a low profile, praying that he doesn't turn into one himself.
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All the best liars
by Kahaney, Amelia
After a deadly fire is set two weeks before the end of high school, three best friends each try to escape their stifling California desert town—one by dying, one by lying, and one by taking the fall.
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Meet me in Mumbai
by Sabina Khan
When she finds an old box containing letters addressed to her from her birth mother, one of which asks her to travel to Mumbai when she turns 18 so they can meet, Mira must make a life-changing decision.
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Dangerous Play
by Kress, Emma
After she is sexually assaulted, Zoe Alexander, the captain of her hockey team, decides that she and her teammates will take justice into their own hands, a move that could cost the team their championship and Zoe her college scholarship.
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The undead truth of us
by Britney S. Lewis
After her mother's sudden death, sixteen-year-old dancer Zharie Young begins seeing zombies, and when she meets an undead boy, he helps her understand how love can change someone--for good or for dead
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How you grow wings
by Rimma Onoseta
Living with her wealthy aunt in Nigeria while her sister Cheta leads a much harder existence, Zam finds that Cheta's fate rests in her hands.
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Loveless
by Alice Oseman
Surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love, Georgia, who doesn't have sexual or romantic feelings for anyone, comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic and learns that there are plenty of other ways to find love and connection.
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What's coming to me
by Francesca Padilla
After the ice cream stand where she works is robbed, seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutierrez plans to get revenge on her predatory boss while navigating grief, anger, and dreams of escape from her dead-end hometown
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Four for the road
by K. J. Reilly
When seventeen-year-old Asher embarks on a road trip from New Jersey to Graceland to get revenge on the drunk driver who killed his mom, he brings along three new friends from his bereavement groups.
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I am the ghost in your house
by Mar Romasco Moore
In this brilliant story of love, friendship and learning to see yourself in a world based on appearances, 17-year-old Pie returns to Pittsburgh to find the girl she's in love with and reveal her true self.
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Tonight we rule the world
by Zack Smedley
In the beginning, Owen's story was blank . . . then he was befriended by Lily, the aspiring author who helped him find his voice. Together, the two have spent years navigating first love and amassing an inseparable friend group. But all of it is upended one day when his school's administration learns Owen's secret: that he was sexually assaulted by a classmate.
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I'm the girl : a novel
by Courtney Summers
After discovering the dead body of a 13-year-old girl, 16-year-old Georgia Avis decides to find and bring the killer to justice before he strikes again, drawing her into a world of money, power and beauty without conscience or consequence.
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All my rage
by Sabaa Tahir
When his attempts to save his family's motel spiral out of control, Salahudin and his best friend Noor, two outcasts in their town, must decide what their friendship is worth and how they can defeat the monsters of their past and in their midst.
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An emotion of great delight
by Tahereh Mafi
In the wake of 9/11, Shadi, a child of Muslim immigrants, tries to navigate her crumbling world of death, heartbreak and bigotry in silence, until finally everything changes.
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Why we fly
by Jones, Kimberly
When her best friend, who is Black, is the only student suspended for taking a knee at the season's first football game, Eleanor must decide whether or not she wants to jeopardize her new relationship with the star quarterback by protesting the school's actions.
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We can be heroes
by Kyrie McCauley
United by vengeance for their friend Cassie after their town moves on too quickly after her murder, frenemies Beck and Vivian race against time to deliver justice to those responsible for her death.
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Heroine
by Mindy McGinnis
Determined to see her softball team through a historic tournament run despite severe injuries, Mickey Catalan is prescribed painkillers that initially help, before high pressure leads to an out-of-control addiction.
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The half-orphan's handbook
by Joan F. Smith
When sixteen-year-old Lila's mother sends her to a summer-long grief camp, following the suicide of Lila's father, potential new friends and a new crush threaten to drag her back into life, but facing the truth about her family will be the hardest part of moving on
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The burning
by Laura Bates
The founder of the Everyday Sexism Project presents the story of a girl whose effort to start over in a new town and school in the aftermath of a devastating social media mistake is complicated by rumors and the centuries-old story of a local victim of witchcraft fervor.
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The bridge
by Bill Konigsberg
Arriving at the George Washington Bridge at the same time with the intention of jumping, two suicidal teens, strangers to each other, reevaluate the reasons behind their despair and consider outcomes where either, both or neither of them go through with it.
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Resurrection Girls
by Ava Morgyn
Drawn out of her grief by new neighbors, the Hallas women, sixteen-year-old Olivia Foster perceives a darkness surrounding them that goes beyond Kara Hallas's habit of writing to men on death row
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What kind of girl
by Alyssa B Sheinmel
An unflinching exploration of the role of misogyny in teen culture by the award-winning author of The Haunting of Sunshine Girl follows the experiences of the female students at a high school that becomes divided by an expulsion case involving a girl who has accused her boyfriend of assault.
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The quiet you carry
by Nikki Barthelmess
When seventeen-year-old Victoria Parker is suddenly placed into foster care, she struggles to find words for the abuse that upended her life.
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All our broken pieces
by L. D. Crichton
A lonely teen struggling with escalating OCD symptoms in the wake of her mother's passing, a new school and stepfamily dynamics is quietly observed from a treehouse by a neighbor, who fills his notebooks with lyrics about the painful realities of his own life.
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How it feels to float
by Helena Fox
A deeply hopeful novel about love, loss and living with intergenerational mental illness follows the experiences of a teen who manages to just get by while hiding her father's deteriorating condition and exploring first romantic encounters, before an unavoidable event threatens to unravel her world.
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How to make friends with the dark
by Kathleen Glasgow
A powerful tale about love and loss follows the experiences of a girl who struggles with depression and difficulties with moving forward after the loss of her mother.
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This might hurt a bit
by Doogie Horner
Struggling through grief on the one-year anniversary of his sister's death, talented runner Kirby finds himself navigating hostile classmates, reckless friends and a cow-painting prank.
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Fear of missing out
by Kate McGovern
Learning that her cancer has returned, a teen who is determined not to miss out on anything investigates a radical cryopreservation procedure that will keep her in frozen hibernation but alive until a future cure becomes available.
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Come find me
by Megan Miranda
A girl determined to continue her late sibling's search through the cosmos and a boy who wants to learn the fate of his missing brother discover a mysterious radio frequency that suggests their family tragedies are mysteriously connected.
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On a Scale of 1 to 10
by Ceylan Scott
Admitted to a psychiatric hospital for teens, a girl with borderline personality disorder navigates therapy alongside her fellow patients while struggling to come to terms with what happened to her friend back home.
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Our year of maybe
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein, eighteen, wonders if seventeen-year-old Peter Rosenthal-Porter, gifted pianist, best friend, and secret crush, will love her back after receiving her kidney
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Little do we know
by Tamara Ireland Stone
Told from two viewpoints, neighbors and former best friends Hannah and Emory, seventeen, must face what caused their rift after Hannah saves the life of Emory's boyfriend, Luke
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As many nows as I can get
by Shana Youngdahl
A cerebral romance told in vibrantly detailed, nonlinear chapters follows the experiences of a grounded overachiever who falls in love with an electric-charged boy, triggering unanticipated consequences.
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Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee
by Jeff Zentner
Told in two voices, Josie and Delia struggle with growing up and growing apart as they face tough decisions about their post-high school futures and the fate of their weekly cable television show
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When elephants fly
by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Resolving to live as carefully as possible in the hope of avoiding the schizophrenia that has dangerously impacted her family, a high school senior risks everything to save the life of a three-week-old elephant calf.
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Imagine us happy
by Jennifer Yu
A high school junior struggling with near-debilitating depression unexpectedly bonds with a senior boy who understands what she is going through and starts to neglect her responsibilities before a dramatic spiral reveals her new friend's own scars.
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After the fall
by Kate Hart
Traumatized by a peer assault, 17-year-old Raychel suffers from nightmares and finds solace in a close friendship with overachiever Matt, who is unaware that she has been sleeping with his slacker brother, Andrew.
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The inexplicable logic of my life
by Benjamin Alire Sâaenz
Certain of his place in the loving Mexican American family he shares with his adoptive gay father, Sal begins questioning everything when his senior year arrives and he realizes he wants to know more about his biological origins
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Windfall
by Jennifer E. Smith
Buying her crush a lottery ticket for his 18th birthday, Alice is astounded when he wins, an unexpected situation that is complicated by her parents' recent deaths, her crush's absent father's gambling debts and differing opinions about how their relationship is changing.
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The loose ends list
by Carrie Firestone
When her idyllic summer before college is shattered by her beloved grandmother's terminal illness, Maddie joins her socialite clan on a "death with dignity" cruise marked by her growing feelings for a fellow grieving passenger.
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We were never here
by Jennifer Gilmore
Sixteen-year old Lizzie, hospitalized with an illness that takes time to be diagnosed, finds comfort in an unexpected source when she meets Connor, a troubled boy whose scars are internal
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Girl in pieces
by Kathleen Glasgow
Having suffered terrible losses, including the accidental death of her father, 17-year-old Charlotte adopts a tough demeanor and engages in self-destructive rituals to hide her deep pain before undertaking a poignant journey of healing.
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
by E. K. Johnston
At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.
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Still life with tornado
by A. S. King
When Sarah, a talented artist, finds her creativity blocked, she confronts visions of her past and future selves before realizing the truth of her parents' marriage
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Holding up the universe
by Jennifer Niven
After years of homeschooling and a surgery that helped her lose hundreds of pounds, Libby enters high school but soon becomes entangled in a cruel game with Jack, a boy whose disability prevents him from recognizing faces
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Wrecked
by Maria Padian
After Jenny, a college student, accuses Jordan of raping her at a party, the school investigation finds only conflicting versions of what happened and struggles to make the right decision
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The way I used to be
by Amber Smith
Shattered when she is raped by her best friend's brother, high school student Eden navigates the terrible pain of trauma and broken friendship while finding the courage to reveal what happened. A first novel.
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All the bright places
by Jennifer Niven
Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world.
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The sacred lies of Minnow Bly
by Stephanie Oakes
Losing everything including her family, her hands and her ability to trust after spending 12 years in a cult, a traumatized Minnow struggles to find her voice in juvenile detention in the aftermath of her leader's death.
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Everything, everything
by Nicola Yoon
Confined to her home because she is allergic to the outside world, a teenage girl's life changes when she begins a romance with the new boy next door that challenges everything she's ever known
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We were liars
by E Lockhart
Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer
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I'll give you the sun
by Jandy Nelson
A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor.
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Hate list
by Jennifer Brown
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain
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The perks of being a wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
In a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel, Charlie struggles to cope with complex world of high school as he deals with the confusions of sex and love, the temptations of drugs, and the pain of losing a close friend and a favorite aunt.
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