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Here are our favorite realistic fiction books. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Azar on Fire
by Olivia Abtahi
To enter a local Battle of the Bands concert, 14-year-old songwriter Azar, whose vocal cords are shredded, discovers she has a lot of talking to do and friends to make for the chance to stand on stage with her crush.
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The Words We Keep
by Erin Stewart
After her sister Alice was found hurting herself, Lily, who has secret compulsions of her own, learns the healing powers of art while working with a new student who was in the same treatment program as her sister.
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Kneel
by Candace Buford
When his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Russell Boudreaux kneels during the national anthem in an effort to fight for justice and, in an instant, falls from local stardom to become a target of hatred.
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The Heartbreak Bakery
by A. R. Capetta
Syd, a baker at the Proud Muffin, is perplexed after couples who eat Syd's brownies immediately split up, but when the owners of the bakery eat the brownies, Syd is afraid the bakery may close and it is only Harley, a delivery person, who convinces Syd that baking can actually fix things.
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Blaine for the Win
by Robbie Couch
To prove to his ex-boyfriend Joey that he can be serious, Blaine decides to run against Joey's new boyfriend for senior student council president and must decide if he is willing to sacrifice everything he loves about himself to do it.
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Charming as a Verb
by Ben Philippe
Hiding less-than-honest business practices behind his charming smile and Ivy League ambition, a popular Haitian-American star debater is blackmailed by an intense classmate who wants to improve her image at school.
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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
by Wai Chim
Working almost constantly to help out at her father’s restaurant and care for her siblings, a teen from a migrant Asian family starts dating a delivery boy before her mother’s progressing mental illness upends everything she understood about her family.
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What I Carry
by Jennifer Longo
Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses - and if she's learned one thing, it is to pack light. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything or anyone that could get in her way.
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Watch Us Rise
by Renée Watson
Frustrated by the way women are treated (even at their progressive New York City high school) two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls.
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The Voting Booth
by Brandy Colbert
Preparing to vote for the first time, Marva is indignant when she observes a fellow teen turned away from the voting booth and teams up with him to fight a corrupt system and search for a missing cat.
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What I Want You to See
by Catherine Linka
After winning a prestigious scholarship at the end of a painful senior year marked by the loss of her mother, a visual arts student struggles under her teacher’s inscrutable criticism before she is inspired to secretly paint her own version of his masterpiece.
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The Upside of Falling
by Alex Light
Pretending to be a couple to avoid messy relationships and peer pressure, a jaded teen and a busy football captain discover they have many things in common and start to develop inconvenient, real feelings for one another.
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When My Heart Joins the Thousand
by A. J. Steiger
Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she'll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home.
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There's Something about Sweetie
by Sandhya Menon
A brokenhearted Indian-American teen agrees to allow his parents to set him up on culturally approved dates with a track athlete, who is tired of being nagged by her traditionally minded family about her plus-sized body
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With the Fire on High
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen.
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On the Come Up by Angie ThomasThis follow-up to the award-winning The Hate U Give finds an ambitious young rapper pouring her frustrations into a first song only to find herself at the center of a viral controversy that forces her to become the menace that her public reputation has portrayed her to be.
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Bloom
by Kevin Panetta
After graduation, Ari is desperate to move to the big city with his band, but he has to find someone who can replace him at his parents' struggling bakery first. When he meets Hector he thinks his prayers have been answered.
This title can be found in the Teen Graphic Novel section of the library.
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The Silence Between Us
by Alison Gervais
Maya has reservations about transferring to a hearing school after studying in a school for the deaf for years, but she grows closer to Beau Watson, the student body president, who starts learning sign language to communicate with her.
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Check Please!: Book 1, #Hockey
by Ngozi Ukazu
Hockey player and amateur vlogger Eric Bittle chronicles his freshman and sophomore year at Samwell University, where he joins the school hockey team and falls for its very attractive but moody captain, Jack Zimmerman.
This title can be found in the Teen Graphic Novel section of the library.
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