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Far from the Tree Emergency Contact

Robin Benway Mary H. K. Choi

Being the middle child has its ups and downs.
But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth,
discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride
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For Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. Her
friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d
somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to
know much about each other. Now Penny is heading to
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Long Way Down XL

Jason Reynolds Scott Brown

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rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where
Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back

The Place Between Breaths Between the Lines

An Na Nikki Grimes

Sixteen-year-old Grace is in a race against time—and in a
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The Beauty That Remains I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Ashley Woodfolk Erika L. Sánchez

Told from three diverse points of view, this story of
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Opposite of Always
Justin A. Reynolds
When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until
sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their
favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard. Soon she’s
meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins
them over as easily as she did Jack.
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happily ever after. Because Kate dies. And their story
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should end there. Yet Kate’s death sends Jack back to the
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Blood Water Paint
Joy McCullough
An inspiring and empowering story of strength
and persistence in the aftermath of sexual assault
based on the life of the seventeenth-century
painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
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By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than
grind pigment. She was one of Rome’s most talented
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
Sabina Khan
With a welcome mix of humor, heart, and
high-stakes drama, Sabina Khan provides a timely
and honest portrait of what it's like to grow up
feeling unwelcome in your own culture.
Fight for love. Fight for family. Fight for yourself.
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jacket physics that keep everything in order. But her life at home
isn't so absolute.
Unable to come out to her conservative Muslim parents,
Wild Bird
Wendelin Van Draanen
From the award-winning author of The Running
Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of
a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb
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The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon
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We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
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achingly beautiful novel about grief and the
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You go through life thinking there’s so much you need….
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A Quiet Kind of Thunder
Sara Barnard
Steffi doesn’t talk, but she has so much to say.
Rhys can’t hear, but he can listen.
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Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday
Natalie C. Anderson
Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-
year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful
past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and
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What is the What
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loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be
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Our Year of Maybe
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein would do
anything for Peter Rosenthal-Porter, who’s been on the
kidney transplant list as long as she’s known him. Peter, a
gifted pianist, is everything to Sophie: best friend, musical
collaborator, secret crush. When she learns she’s a match,
donating a kidney is an easy, obvious choice. She can’t
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Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-
American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia,
cultural divides among peers and parents, and a
reality she can neither explain nor escape.
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in
America
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton,
Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson,
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Words on Bathroom Walls
Julia Walton
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A Sky for Us Alone
Kristin Russell
In Strickland County, there isn’t a lot of anything to go
around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton’s
brother is killed by the Praters—the family who controls
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The Field Guide to the North American
Teenager
Ben Philippe
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too
smart for his own good. A black French Canadian, he
knows from watching American sitcoms that those three
things don’t bode well when you are moving to Austin,
Texas.
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himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders,
the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream
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The Me I Meant to Be
Sophie Jordan
Girl Code: Never date a friend’s ex.
Willa Evans has no intention of breaking the code. So
what if she’s always secretly loved her next-door neighbor
Zach? As her best friend’s boyfriend, he was always
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Flor Hidalgo has a lot on her plate: her breakup with Zach,
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They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls
Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad
news: they’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are
total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both
looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good
news is, there’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend,
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Uplifting a...
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Four Three Two One
Courtney Stevens
Golden “Go” Jennings wasn’t supposed to be on Bus 21
the day it blew up in New York City. Neither was her
boyfriend, Chandler. But they were. And so was Rudy, a
cute stranger whom Go shared a connection with the
night before. And Caroline, a girl whose silence ended up
costing nineteen people their lives.
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Pulp
Robin Talley
In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love
she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It’s not
easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of
McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books
about women falling in love with other women, it awakens
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9781335012906 keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and
$18.99 publish her own story, she risks exposing herself—and
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Sixty-two years later, Abby Zimet can’t st...
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Benjamin Alire Saenz
A “mesmerizing, poetic exploration of family, friendship,
love and loss” from the acclaimed author of Aristotle and
Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. (New York
Times Book Review)
Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father,
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Penguin Minis: Paper Towns
John Green
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HARPERTEEN
How She Died, How I Lived
Mary Crockett
Girl in Pieces meets The Way I Used to Be in this
poignant and thought-provoking novel about a girl
who must overcome her survivor's guilt after a
fellow classmate is brutally murdered.
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On the eve of Kyle's sentencing a year after Jamie's
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It's Not Like It's a Secret
Misa Sugiura
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for
Young Adult Literature
2018 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017
“Well-paced, brimming with drama, and utterly
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Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets.
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Penguin Minis: An Abundance of Katherines
John Green
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Penguin Minis: Looking for Alaska
John Green
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Penguin Minis: The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
John Green’s #1 international bestseller The Fault
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A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Tahereh Mafi
It’s 2002, a year after 9/11, and Shirin has just started at
yet another school. It’s an extremely turbulent time for
the world, but especially for someone like Shirin, a
sixteen-year old Muslim girl who’s tired of being
stereotyped.
Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be.
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comments—even the physical violence—she endures as a
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Odd One Out
Nic Stone
From the New York Times bestselling author of
Dear Martin comes an honest and touching
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between. Perfect for fans of Love, Simon and What
If It’s Us.
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Courtney Cooper and Jupiter Sanchez (Coop & Jupe!)
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have been next-door neighbors and best friends since
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other half. But lately, Cooper can’t ignore he might want
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When Rae Chin moves to town she c...
Pride
Ibi Zoboi
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when white
people move into a neighborhood that’s already been a
little bit broken and a little bit forgotten, the first thing they
want to do is clean it up.
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and
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Dress Codes for Small Towns
Courtney Stevens
As the tomboy daughter of the town’s preacher, Billie
McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of
what everyone says she should be. She’d rather wear
sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid
group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie
Lee.
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Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel
Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
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What If It's Us
Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera
Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if
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can deliver a showstopping romance when you least
expect it.
Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the
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what exactly does the universe have in store for them?
Maybe nothing. After all, they get separated.
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Our Own Private Universe
Robin Talley
Aki knows she’s bisexual—even if, until now, it’s mostly
been in the hypothetical sense. She’s dated only guys so
far, and her best friend, Lori, is the only person who
knows she likes girls, too.
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So when Aki and Lori set off on a church youth-group trip
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Beasts Made of Night
Tochi Onyebuchi
Black Panther meets Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch
in Beasts Made of Night, the first book in an epic
fantasy duology.
Seventeen-year-old Taj is the most talented sin-eater
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sin-beasts—lethal creatures spawned from feelings of
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Autoboyography
Christina Lauren
Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from
California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen
temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester
of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and
out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast
through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you
felt about them…all at once?
Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in
a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters
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We Were Never Here
Jennifer Gilmore
Did you know your entire life can change in an instant?
For sixteen-year-old Lizzie Stoller that moment is when
she collapses, out of the blue. The next thing she knows
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
Darius doesn’t think he’ll ever be enough, in
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Wonderful Feels Like This
Sara Lövestam
For Steffi, going to school every day is an exercise in
survival. She’s never fit in with any of the other groups at
school, and she’s viciously teased by the other girls in her
class. The only way she can escape is through her
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The old man playing her favorite song is Alvar. When Alvar
was a teenager in ...
If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school in Lambertville,
Tennessee. Like anyone else, she wants to make friends
and fit in. But Amanda has a secret. She’s determined not
to get too close to anyone.
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Tash Hearts Tolstoy
Kathryn Ormsbee
After a shout-out from one of the Internet’s superstar
vloggers, Natasha “Tash” Zelenka suddenly finds herself
and her obscure, amateur web series, Unhappy Families,
thrust in the limelight: She’s gone viral.
Her show is a modern adaption of Anna Karenina
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And when Unhappy Fam...
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Piecing Me Together
Renée Watson
Jade believes she must get out of her neighborhood if
she’s going to succeed. Her mother says to take
advantage of every opportunity. She has. She accepted a
scholarship to a mostly-white private school and even
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I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
Will Walton
How do you deal with a hole in your life?
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If you're Avery, you do all of these things. And you write it
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Puddin'
Julie Murphy
The irresistible companion to the #1 New York
Times bestseller Dumplin’, soon to be a major
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Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since
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Ramona Blue
Julie Murphy
Live out loud. Love out loud.
Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina
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Mariam Sharma Hits the Road
Sheba Karim
An offbeat and hilarious road trip story about three
Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land
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From Twinkle, with Love
Sandhya Menon
Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has
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Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit
Jaye Robin Brown
Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo
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Joana has been out and proud for years, but when her
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The Way You Make Me Feel
Maurene Goo
Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes
one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer
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uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer
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Holding Up the Universe
Jennifer Niven
A New York Times Bestseller
From the author of the New York Times bestseller
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Noteworthy
Riley Redgate
It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year at the Kensington-
Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts.
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theatre world—is sort of like being a vulture in the wild:
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And She Was
Jessica Verdi
Dara's lived a sheltered life with her single mom, Mellie.
Now, at eighteen, she's dreaming of more. When Dara
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implodes. Why are two strangers listed as her
parents?Dara confronts her mother, and is stunned by
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Conviction
Kelly Loy Gilbert
Catalog Copy:
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Ten years ago, Braden was given a sign, a promise that
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American Street
Ibi Zoboi
“The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock
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On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola
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Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson
Mary B. Addison killed a baby.
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Emergency Contact
Mary H. K. Choi
For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her
friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she
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The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
“A story that will slam the power of poetry and
love back into your heart.” —Laurie Halse
Anderson, author of Speak and Chains
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her
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curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness
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Dreamland Burning
Jennifer Latham
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer
Latham that questions how far we've come with
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The Dangerous Art of Blending In
Angelo Surmelis
Seventeen-year-old Evan Panos doesn’t know where he
fits in. His strict Greek mother refuses to see him as
anything but a disappointment. His quiet workaholic father
is a staunch believer in avoiding any kind of conflict. And
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attractive over the summer.
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Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard
Pen is a badass gamer girl stuck in a small town outside
Toronto. She’s basically “one of the guys” with her BFF,
Colby, and a small crew, who smoke weed, drink, play
video games and go to the mall where Pen scores girls for
Colby—even though she dreams of scoring some of them
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Symptoms of Being Human
Jeff Garvin
The first thing you’re going to want to know about me is:
am I a boy, or am I a girl?
Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky.
Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as
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LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
History Is All You Left Me
Adam Silvera
“This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some
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From the New York Times bestselling author of
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Movie
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Becky Albertalli
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier
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As You Wish
Chelsea Sedoti
In the sandy Mojave Desert, Madison is a small town on
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The Battle of Jericho
Sharon M. Draper
When Jericho is invited to pledge for the Warriors of
Distinction, he thinks his life can’t get any better. As the
most exclusive club in school, the Warriors give the best
parties, go out with the hottest girls, and great grades are
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November Blues
Sharon M. Draper
When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a
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possibly get any worse. But Josh left something behind
that will change November’s life forever. She’s pregnant
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Jericho Prescott lost his best friend when he lost his
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You Know Me Well: A Novel
David Levithan, Nina LaCour
Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or
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Eliza and Her Monsters
Francesca Zappia
In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless.
Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, anonymous creator of a
popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of
followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is
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Drag Teen
Jeffery Self
JT feels like his life's hit a dead end. It looks like he'll
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Highly Illogical Behavior
John Corey Whaley
A story of friendship, love, and agoraphobia from
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The Serpent King
Jeff Zentner
Named to ten BEST OF THE YEAR lists and
selected as a William C. Morris Award Winner, The
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
E.K. Johnston
Speak for the next generation, by critically
acclaimed author E.K. Johnston.
Hermione is captain of her cheerleading team, and in tiny
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Grendel's Guide to Love and War
A. E. Kaplan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of
the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to
take down the bro next door, but ends up falling
for his enemy’s sister and uncovering difficult
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Fans of the Impossible Life
Kate Scelsa
Mira is a chronic fatigue syndrome–suffering
underachiever who is trying to start over at Saint Francis
Prep, where she promised her parents she would at least
try to pretend that she could be normal—not a girl who
sometimes can’t get out of bed for days on end, who only
feels awake when she’s with Sebby.
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Dumplin'
Julie Murphy
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed
“Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always
been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having
the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With
her all-American-beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side,
things have always worked...until Will takes a job at
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Cut Both Ways
Carrie Mesrobian
It took Will Caynes seventeen years to have his first kiss.
He should be thrilled...except that it was shared with his
best friend, Angus, while they were both drunk and
stoned. Will’s not gay, but he did sort of enjoy whatever
happened with Angus. Unsettled by this attraction, Will
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Confusing as Will’s feeli...
Another Day
David Levithan
A New York Times Bestseller
A girl falls in love with someone who wakes up in
a different body each morning in this enthralling
and poignant follow-up to the New York Times
bestseller Every Day.
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Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted
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None of the Above
I. W. Gregorio
When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, it
seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen into
place. She’s a champion hurdler with a full scholarship to
college and she’s madly in love with her boyfriend. In fact,
she’s decided that she’s ready to take things to the next
level with him.
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The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds:
the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the
fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy
balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr
witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend,
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The Smell of Other People's Houses
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
“Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock’s Alaska is beautiful and
wholly unfamiliar…. A thrilling, arresting debut.”
—Gayle Forman, New York Times bestselling
author of If I Stay and I Was Here
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This deeply moving and authentic debut set in 1970s
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Anything Could Happen
Will Walton
Tretch lives in a very small town where everybody's in
everybody else's business. Which makes it hard for him to
be in love with his straight best friend. For his part, Matt is
completely oblivious to the way Tretch feels -- and Tretch
can't tell whether that makes it better or worse.The
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Not If I See You First
Eric Lindstrom
In the tradition of Gayle Forman and John Green
comes this extraordinary YA debut about a blind
teen girl navigating life and love in high school.
Parker Grant doesn't need 20/20 vision to see right
through you. That's why she created the Rules: Don't
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I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Gretchen McNeil
Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini has life all figured out.
She’s starting senior year at the top of her class, she’s a
shoo-in for a scholarship to MIT, and she’s got a new
boyfriend she’s crazy about. The only problem: All through
high school Bea and her best friends, Spencer and Gabe,
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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big
Sister Went Crazy
Sonya Sones
When her beloved older sister is hospitalized after a
sudden mental breakdown, Cookie is left behind to cope
with a family torn apart by grief, friends who shun her,
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Look Both Ways
Alison Cherry
Thoughtful, funny, and steeped in the wild drama
of growing up, Alison Cherry’s new novel is the
story of a girl hoping she’s found a place to belong
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Jennifer Donnelly
A New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed
author of A Northern Light and Revolution. This
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The Porcupine of Truth
Bill Konigsberg
The Stonewall Book Award-winning novel from the author
of Openly Straight and Honestly Ben! "Words like 'brilliant'
are so overused when praising novels--so I won't use that
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All the Rage: A Novel
Courtney Summers
The sheriff's son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy
everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a
fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the
wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost her
everything - friends, family, and her community. Branded
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Dime
E. R. Frank
As a teen girl in Newark, New Jersey, lost in the foster
care system, Dime just wants someone to care about her,
to love her. A family. And that is exactly what she gets—a
daddy and two “wifeys.” So what if she has to go out and
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Kissing in America
Margo Rabb
In the years following her father’s untimely death, sixteen-
year-old Eva has sought the comfort of romance novels
and poetry to assuage her grief. Then she meets Will, and
for the first time, Eva feels understood. Through their
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Fat Angie
e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Winner of a 2014 Stonewall Book Award
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The Impossible Knife of Memory
Laurie Halse Anderson
For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father,
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The Moon and More
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More Than This
Patrick Ness
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Two Boys Kissing
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Wintergirls
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