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Airborn by Kenneth OppelSet in the early twentieth century in a world where the airplane hasn't been invented, a young boy takes to the skies aboard an airship where he plays an important role in fierce battles that are fought high in the sky. (2006)
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Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonA tale presented in the style of a scrapbook follows the experiences of Amy Curry, who relocates from California to Connecticut for her senior year after the tragic, accidental death of her father, a challenging new start marked by unexpected feelings for a childhood friend. (2016)
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Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsWhen Anna's father sends her to an American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets a boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more. (2015)
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The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl by Barry LygaA fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself. (2009)
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Black and White by Paul VolponiTwo star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught. (2008)
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The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-UcciTorey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. (2009)
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Cinder by Marissa MeyerAs plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world. (2015, 2021)
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Dairy Queenby Catherine Gilbert MurdockAfter spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. (2009)
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. LockhartSophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks. (2011)
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Divergent by Veronica RothIn a future Chicago, Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she does not fit into any one group. (2014)
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Elsewhere by Gabrielle ZevinAfter fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live." (2008)
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Fat Cat by Robin BrandeOverweight teenager Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominins, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology. (2012)
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Fat Kid Rules the World by Kelly GoingWhen he finds his former classmate, Troy, standing on a subway platform contemplating suicide, Curt takes action and a strange friendship develops between the two where soon Troy is recruited to be the drummer for Curt’s new punk rock band, in an amusing tale of an unlikely friendship. (2007)
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The Future of Us by Jay AsherReceiving her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM in 1996, student Emma and her best friend, Josh, log on and discover themselves on Facebook, 15 years in the future, and learn astonishing things about their adult selves. (2013)
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Gabe Johnson Takes Over by Geoff HerbachWhen the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war. (2017)
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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayAfter the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. (2007)
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Half Brother by Kenneth OppelIn 1973, as part of an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills, a renowned behavioral psychologist brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his son to treat Zan like a little brother. (2013)
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Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey WhaleyAn agoraphobic teen who has not left his house for three years is sought out by an ambitious girl determined to get into a top-tier psychology program by treating him and earning a scholarship, a plan that is challenged by their growing bond. (Spring 2018)
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsIn a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. (2011)
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Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna PriemazaThrown together for a year-long science project, a girl with social anxiety disorder and a girl with off-putting ADHD challenges discover their common obsession with a swoon-worthy online gaming star. (2020)
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The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper FfordeAs magic fades from the world, Jennifer Strange is having trouble keeping her magician employment agency business afloat, until she begins having visions that foretell the death of the last dragon and the coming of Big Magic. (2016)
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Legend by Marie LuIn a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. (2016)
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Little Brother by Cory DoctorowAfter being interrogated by the Department of Homeland Security after a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, Marcus is released into what is now a police state and uses his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. (2011)
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Love Among the Walnuts by Jean FerrisBorn and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money. (2006)
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Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. StorkMarcelo 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. (2012)
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle ZevinA toss of the coin ends up changing Naomi's life after a slip on the stairs results in amnesia, a disconnect with the life she once led, and a new relationship with a young man with a questionable past. (2010)
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsAfter a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there. (2020)
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The Name of the Star by Maureen JohnsonRory, of Bénouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation. (2014, 2021)
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Rash by Pete HautmanIn the late twenty-first century, Bo, after being falsely accused of spreading a rash throughout his school, is sold into forced labor at a pizza factory in the Canadian tundra where he's promised early parole if he joins an illegal football team, while, at home, his school project takes on a life of its own. (2010)
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Shadow and Bone by Leigh BardugoOrphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold. (2017)
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Ship Breaker by Paolo BacigalupiA tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor. (2014)
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliSixteen-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. (Fall 2018)
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The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy NelsonEnjoying her life in the shadow of a fiery older sister, 17-year-old bookworm Lennie Walker is shattered by her sister's sudden death, a tragedy that causes her relationships with her sister's equally grief-stricken boyfriend and a French newcomer to change in ways she never could have imagined. (2012)
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David LubarDealing with bullies, the separation of old friends, and unsuccessful romances as a high school student, Scott decides to write a journal for his younger sibling in order to give him a helpful guide for surviving all the dramas, struggles, and issues he will be forced to face when he gets put into the game. (2008)
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Son of the Mob by Gordon KormanSeventeen-year-old Vince Luca's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. (2007)
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Starflight by Melissa LandersDesperate to relocate to an off-world place where nobody cares about her humble working status or her criminal past, Solara Brooks indentures herself to a rich bully who pretends to be her servant on a starship full of eccentric crewmates after he is framed for conspiracy on Earth. (Spring 2018)
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Suite Scarlett by Maureen JohnsonFifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook. (2010)
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Tell Me Three Things by Julie BuxbaumSixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, moves from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's social waters. (Spring 2018)
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Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie TromlyAfter meeting misfit Philip Digby, Zoe soon finds herself in a series of hilarious and dangerous situations as they investigate a local teenage girls kidnapping that may be related to the disappearance of his kid sister eight years ago. (2017)
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Warcross by Marie LuAfter hacking into the Warcross Championships' opening game to track illegal betting, bounty hunter Emika Chen is asked by the game's creator to go undercover to investigate a security problem, and she uncovers a sinister plot. (2020)
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We Are the Ants by Shaun David HutchinsonAbducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving. (Fall 2018)
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What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy BlundellWhen Joe Spooner brings an old buddy back home with him from the battlefields of World War II, Evie finds herself in a complicated situation that becomes even more dangerous when their family's guest suddenly drowns as dark family secrets are revealed. (2013)
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What to Say Next by Julie BuxbaumWhen an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident. (Fall 2018)
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Where Things Come Backby John Corey WhaleyLosing touch with everything he believes in the wake of a cousin's overdose, his younger brother's disappearance and his Arkansas community's obsession with an extinct bird, high school senior Cullen struggles to hold his family together, while a disillusioned missionary searches for meaning. (2015)
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