Bauer, Joan
Peeled
Rumors of a haunted house ignite the curiosity of teen reporter Hildy Biddle. She starts
investigating the story only to have her school newspaper shut down. What Hildy uncovers and how
she overcomes the obstacles that would have her silenced are at the core of Joan Bauer's new
book, PEELED.
Childs, Tera Lynn
Oh. My. Gods.
A modern girl's comedic odyssey in a school filled with the descendants of Greek gods.
Giles, Gail
Right Behind You
After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska,
fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under
a different name, but not only has trouble fitting in, he finds there are still problems to deal with
from his childhood.
Giles, Gail
Shattering Glass
When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming,
his actions lead to unexpected violence.
Lynch, Chris
Inexcusable
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when
he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner
Amir and Hassan are good friends growing up together in Afghanistan but when the Soviets invade
the country, Amir and his family use their wealth and influence to flee to California, but Hassan and
his impoverished family, who are also a shunned ethnic minority, stay and suffer.
Picoult, Jodi
The Pact: A Love Story
Two neighboring families face a terrifying event when the daughter of one is shot by the son of the
other in an apparent suicide pact. The son Chris does not follow through with the pact and now the
two families must deal with an awful truth.
Moskowitz, Hannah
Gone, Gone, Gone
It's a year after 9/11. Sniper shootings throughout the D.C. area have everyone on edge and trying
to make sense of these random acts of violence. Meanwhile, Craig and Lio are just trying to make
sense of their lives.
Myers, Walter Dean
Monster
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his
experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms
with the course his life has taken.
Myers, Walter Dean
Game
Drew Lawson, counting on basketball to get him into college and out of Harlem, struggles to keep his
cool when the coach brings in two white players and puts them in positions that clearly threaten
Drew's game.
Zusak, Markus
The Book Thief
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young
German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish
man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Twisted
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father,
seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but
when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his
destructive thoughts.
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman
year in high school.
Anderson, M.T.
Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment,
a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Brown, Jennifer
Hate List
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.
Block, Francesca Lia
Weetzie Bat
Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles punk friends, Dirk, Duck-Man, and
Secret-Agent-Lover Man.
Green, John
An Abundance of Katherines:​
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl
named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip
with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a
mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Looking for Alaska:​
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in
Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about
life and death after a fatal car crash.
The Fault in our Stars:​
Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a
kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be
remembered.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson: ​
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and
discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the
other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Hopkins, Ellen
Perfect
Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre describe in their own voices their very
different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
McCormick, Patricia
Sold
A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution
in India.
Young, Suzanne
The Program
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in
which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who
knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.
Haig, Matt
The Dead Fathers Club
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble finds himself with a dilemma on his hands when he is contacted by a
ghost that claims to be his father and tells him he must kill his Uncle Alan--his dad's supposed
killer--sometime within the next ten weeks or doom dear old dad to an eternity of unrest.
Green, Tim
Football Champ
Twelve-year-old Troy's uncanny gift for predicting football plays proves a powerful secret weapon
for the Atlanta Falcons, but a seedy reporter with a vendetta suspects something is going on and
sets out to shred the reputations of Troy and star linebacker Seth Halloway.
Rowell, Rainbow
FanGirl
Feeling cast off when her twin sister outgrows their shared love for a favorite fictional character,
Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college
while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about
words, and worrying about her fragile father.
Bray, Libba
A Great and Terrible Beauty
After 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.
Dashner, James
The Maze Runner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must
work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Riggs, Ransom
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pecular Children
Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an
abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may
have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
Asher, Jay
Thirteen Reasons Why
High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes
recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and
heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events
leading up to her death.
Forman, Gayle
If I Stay
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother,
seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in
death.
Oliver, Lauren
Before I Fall
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again
until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
Dessen, Sarah
The Truth About Forever
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy
boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she
makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Dessen, Sarah
Just Listen:​
A Novel: Isolated from friends who believe the worst
because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate
Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the
end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Clare, Cassandra
City of Bones​
(Mortal Instruments, Book 1)
Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their
own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into a bizarre world when her mother
disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Chayil, Eishes
Hush
After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined
to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of
Chassidim that require her to be silent.
Roth, Veronica
Divergent​
(Divergent, Book 1)
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old 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 is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives
in is not perfect after all.
Fredericks, Mariah
Crunch Time
Leo, Max, Jane, and Daisy don't have much in common. But when they all blow off their SAT prep in
favor of forming their own study group, they actually begin to bond -- over why there's so much
competition over a stupid test. And what it really measures, anyway. Then it's revealed that
someone has cheated on the SATs, and all eyes point to the study group.
Philbin, Joanna
Rules of Summer
When seventeen-year-old Rory McShane steps off the bus in East Hampton, it's as if she's
entered another universe, one populated by impossibly beautiful people wearing pressed khakis and
driving expensive cars. She's signed on to be a summer errand girl for the Rules -- a wealthy family
with an enormous beachfront mansion.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson ​
Full-Ride
Becca Jones’s father has been convicted of a Bernie Madoff–like financial scheme, and after he
goes to jail, Becca and her mother flee from Georgia to small-town Ohio, hoping for an anonymous
fresh start. Three years later, Becca is a senior in high school with plenty of friends, straight As,
and college dreams. Becca’s mother is terrified that someone will discover their secret, but when
Becca learns about a mysterious scholarship—a full ride for one student at her high school—she’s
determined to get it.
Morris, Paula
Ruined: A Novel
Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year while
her dad is traveling. She's staying in a creepy old house with her Aunt Claudia, who reads Tarot
cards for a living. And at the snooty prep school, a pack of filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's
invisible. Only gorgeous, unavailable Anton Grey seems to give Rebecca the time of day, but she
wonders if he's got a hidden agenda. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a
friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and
crannies of the city. There’s only one catch: Lisette is a ghost.
Keplinger, Kody
DUFF: The Designated Ugly Fat Friend
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her
friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school
hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws
her Coke in his face.
Lake, Nick
Hostage Three
While traveling around the world on a yacht with her parents, Amy’s family’s boat is attacked by
pirates. Her father is hostage one, her mother is hostage two, and Amy becomes hostage three.
She becomes drawn to one of her captors - a boy who wants to make more of his life than piracy.
Lake, Nick
There will be Lies
In four hours, Shelby Jane Cooper will be struck by a car. Shortly after, she and her mother will
leave the hospital and set out on a winding journey toward the Grand Canyon. All Shelby knows is
that they’re running from dangers only her mother understands. And the further they travel, the
more Shelby questions everything about her past—and her current reality.
Cass, Kiera
The Selection
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life
laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To
live in the palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer,
being selected is a nightmare.
Brian, Kate
Shadowlands
Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived and the serial killer who
attacked her escaped. Now that the infamous Steven Nell is on the loose, Rory must enter the
witness protection program. Entering the program alongside her, is her father and sister Darcy.
The trio starts a new life and a new beginning leaving their friends and family behind without a
goodbye.
Cooner, Donna
Can’t Look Away
Torrey Grey is famous. At least, on the internet. Thousands of people watch her popular videos on
fashion and beauty. But when Torrey's sister is killed in an accident — maybe because of Torrey
and her videos — Torrey's perfect world implodes.Now, strangers online are bashing Torrey. And at
her new school, she doesn't know who to trust.
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