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Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews - FBA Powersetup
Format: Hardcover
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It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times.... |
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Blue Heron
Avi
Format: Book
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The story of a pivotal summer for the thirteen-year-old Maggie tells how her fight to protect a solitary blue heron with which she identifies distracts her from dealing with strange new tensions in her family. |
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Emmy & Oliver
Robin Benway - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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Fans of Sarah Dessen will devour Robin Benways story of romance, coming-of-age emotion, and heartache, now in paperback.Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life....She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beach - go anywhere without her parents relentless worrying. But Emmys... |
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Bull Catcher
Alden R Carter
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In his diary, high-school baseball player Neil ""Bull"" Larsen re-evaluates his friendships, takes a close look at his family and girlfriend, and considers if there is anything more to life than baseball." |
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Home Court Is Where You Find It
William R Cox
Format: Hardcover
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A 16-year-old basketball star from a broken home who has been expelled from 3 schools in California enters an eastern boarding school that has a losing basketball team. |
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The Wonder of Us
Kim A Culbertson - Point
Format: Hardcover
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Riya and Abby are:Best friends.Complete opposites.Living on different continents.Currently mad at each other.About to travel around Europe. Riya moved to Berlin, Germany, with her family for junior year, while Abby stayed behind in their small California town. They thought it would be easy... |
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P.s. Longer Letter Later
Paula Danziger - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara*Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara*Starr's family moves to another state, in a complex and emotionally rich novel about two friends coping with overwhelming change. Reprint. |
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Blind
Rachel DeWoskin - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own sisters to imagining colors. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. And just... |
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Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom
Brendan Halpin - Walker Childrens; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Lucas and Tessa’s friendship is the stuff of legend in their small Midwestern town. So it’s no surprise when Lucas finally realizes his feelings for Tessa are more than friendship and he asks her to prom. What no one expected, especially Lucas, was for Tessa to come out as a lesbian... |
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My Life in Black and White
Natasha Friend - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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What if you lost the thing that made you who you are? Lexi has always been stunning. Her butter-colored hair and perfect features have helped her attract friends, a boyfriend, and the attention of a modeling scout. But everything changes the night Lexi's face goes through a windshield.... |
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If I Ever Get Out of Here
Eric Gansworth - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of TANTALIZE and RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAMELewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking,... |
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Reunited
Hilary Weisman Graham - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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1 concert. 2000 miles. 3 ex-best friends.Alice, Summer, and Tiernan used to be best friends—as well as the self-proclaimed biggest fans of the band Level3. But when the band broke up, so did their friendship. Now, four years later, they’ve just graduated... |
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Stick
Michael Harmon - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Stick" is the best wide receiver in the history of his high school - the football seems magnetically drawn to his hands, hence his nickname. Preston is an outcast, and his pipsqueak stature and nerdy social status couldn't be further from a star athlete's. Stick... |
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Reunited
Hilary Weisman Graham - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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1 concert. 2000 miles. 3 ex-best friends.Alice, Summer, and Tiernan used to be best friends—as well as the self-proclaimed biggest fans of the band Level3. But when the band broke up, so did their friendship. Now, four years later, they’ve just graduated... |
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Proof of Forever
Lexa Hillyer - Harper Teen
Format: Hardcover
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From debut author and poet Lexa Hillyer comes the lyrical story of four seventeen-year-old friends who receive an unlikely chance to relive the perfect summer . . . and the devastating secret that could unravel it all. Elegant and evocative, Proof of Forever is one of those first novels... |
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The Disenchantments
Nina LaCour - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover
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Colby and Bev have a long-standing pact: graduate, hit the road with Bev's band, and then spend the year wandering around Europe. But moments after the tour kicks off, Bev makes a shocking announcement: she's abandoning their plans - and Colby - to start college in the fall. But the show... |
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We Were Liars
E Lockhart - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times BestsellerOne of James Patterson's "Favorite Thrillers for the Beach" (New York Times) "Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents." - Wall Street... |
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Goldfish: A Novel
Nat Luurtsema - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Print book
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I am Lou Brown:Social outcast, precocious failure, 5'10" and still growing. I was on the fast track to the Olympic superstardom. Now, I'm training boys too cool to talk to me. In a sport I just made up. In a fish tank.My life has quickly become very weird. Nat Luurtsema's YA debut... |
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Friends for life
Andrew Norriss - David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book
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A timeless and uplifting book about friendship, filled with humor and heart.When Jessica sits next to Francis on a bench during recess, he's surprised to learn that she isn't actually alive--she's a ghost. And she's surprised, too, because Francis is the first person who has been able to see her since... |
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The Foxman
Gary Paulsen
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A story of friendship and healing in Minnesota's wilderness. Written with the honesty and vividness of experience, The Foxman captures the qualities that have made Gary Paulsen one of the most popular and acclaimed writers for young adults. |
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The Fall of Butterflies
Andrea Portes - HarperTeen
Format: Print book
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We Were Liars meets Looking for Alaska in a uniquely funny and heartbreaking teen novel about a passionate-yet-doomed friendship set against a backdrop of wealth and glamour.Willa Parker, 646th and least-popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life. Did she choose... |
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My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan
Seth Rudetsky - Random House Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Justin has two goals for sophomore year: to date Chuck, the hottest boy in school, and to become the king of Cool U, the table in the cafeteria where the "in" crowd sits. Unfortunately, he has the wrong look (short, plump, Brillo-pad curls), he has the wrong interests (Broadway,... |
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Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn,... |
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Crash
Jerry Spinelli - Laurel Leaf
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Now available in paperback, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli's hilarious, poignant story of cocky seventh-grade superjock Crash Coogan. |
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Unfriended
Rachel Vail - Viking Children'S Books
Format: Hardcover
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In middle school, nothing is more important than friendship.When Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table with the group she has dreamed of joining, she can hardly believe her luck. Everyone seems so nice, so kind to one another. But all is not as it seems with her new friends, and soon... |
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David and Jonathan
Cynthia Voigt
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To preserve his relationship with his best friend, Jonathan, Hank becomes enmeshed in Jonathan's struggle to save his cousin, David, a Holocaust survivor, from his horrific memories of the war and his self-destructive behavior. |
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The Queen of Kentucky
Alecia Whitaker - Poppy
Format: Hardcover
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Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would preferred to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer's daughter roots and become part of the popular crowd at her small town high school. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new "sophisticated"... |
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When Pigs Fly
June Rae Wood - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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Upset about moving into a dilapidated old farmhouse and the cruelty of children who make fun of her lovable little sister, Reenie, a Down syndrome child, Reenie does not realize how lucky she is, until an accident leads her to discover the importance of friendship and family ties. |
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Goodbye Days
Jeff Zentner - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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"Gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-affirming," says Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also A Star, of this novel about finding strength and hope after tragedy. Perfect for fans of Me and Earl... |
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The Serpent King
Jeff Zentner - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Named to ten BEST OF THE YEAR lists and selected as a William C. Morris Award Winner,The Serpent King is the critically acclaimed, much-beloved story of three teens who find themselves--and each other--while on the cusp of graduating from high school with hopes of leaving their small-town... |
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