Every Day,
David Levithan
Every morning A wakes in a
different person's body, in a
different
person's
life,
learning over the years to
never get too attached, until
he wakes up in the body of
Justin and falls in love with
Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
Ask the Passengers,
A.S. King
Astrid Jones copes with her
small town's gossip and
narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining
that she's sending love to the
passengers in the airplanes
flying
high
over
her
backyard.
Love Letters to the
Dead, Ava Dellaira
Winger, Andrew Smith
Two years younger than his
classmates at a prestigious
boarding school, fourteenyear-old Ryan Dean West
grapples with living in the
dorm for troublemakers,
falling for his female best
friend who thinks of him as
just a kid, and playing wing
on the Varsity rugby team
with some of his frightening
new dorm-mates.
This Star Won't Go
Out, Esther Earl,
Lori & Wayne Earl
YA BIOG EARL
A memoir told through the
journals, letters, and stories
of young cancer patient
Esther Earl, John Green’s
inspiration for The Fault in
Our Stars.
When
Laurel
starts
writing letters to dead people
for a school assignment, she
begins to spill about her
sister's mysterious death,
her
mother's
departure
from the family, her new
friends, and her first love.
And We Stay,
Jenny Hubbard
Sent
to
an
Amherst,
Massachusetts,
boarding
school after her ex-boyfriend
shoots himself, seventeenyear-old Emily expresses
herself through poetry as she
relives their relationship,
copes with her guilt, and
begins to heal.
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Eleanor & Park,
Rainbow Rowell
Set over the course of one
school year in 1986, this is
the story of two star-crossed
misfits-smart enough to
know that first love almost
never lasts, but brave and
desperate enough to try.
Looking for Alaska,
John Green
Amy & Roger’s Epic
Detour, Morgan Matson
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.
After the death of her father,
Amy, a high school student, and
Roger, a college freshman, set
out on a carefully planned road
trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many
detours, forcing Amy to face
her worst fears and come to
terms with her grief and guilt.
If I Stay,
Gayle Forman
Zac and Mia,
A.J. Betts
While in a coma following
an automobile accident that
killed her parents and
younger brother, seventeenyear-old Mia, a gifted cellist, considers whether to
live with her grief or join
her family in death.
After meeting in grueling
leukemia treatment in Perth,
Australia,
two
nearstrangers can’t forget each
other,
even
as
they
desperately try to resume
normal lives.
The Perks of Being a
Wallflower,
Stephen Chbosky
An introvert freshman is
taken under the wings of
two seniors who introduce
him to the real world of
high school.
Me and Earl and the
Dying Girl,
Jesse Andrews
Seventeen-year-old Greg has
managed to become part of
every social group at his
Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but
his life changes when his
mother forces him to befriend
Rachel, a girl he once knew
in Hebrew school who has
leukemia.
Before I Fall,
Lauren Oliver
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.
13 Reasons Why,
Jay Asher
When high school student Clay
Jenkins receives a box in the
mail
containing
thirteen
cassette tapes recorded by his
classmate
Hannah,
who
committed suicide, he spends a
bewildering and heartbreaking
night crisscrossing their town,
listening to Hannah's voice
recounting the events leading
up to her death.
The Beginning of
Everything,
Robyn Schneider
Varsity tennis captain, Ezra
Faulkner, was supposed to be
homecoming king, but that was
before—before his girlfriend
cheated on him, before a car
accident shattered his leg, and
before he fell in love with
unpredictable new girl Cassidy
Thorpe.
Forgive Me, Leonard
Peacock,
Matthew Quick
A day in the life of a suicidal
teen boy saying good-bye to
the four people who matter
most to him.
Anna and the French Kiss,
Stephanie Perkins
When Anna's romance-novelist
father sends her to an elite
American boarding school in
Paris for her senior year of high
school, she reluctantly goes, and
meets an amazing boy who
becomes her best friend, in spite
of the fact that they both want
something more.