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by Lara Avery
Published May 2017
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by Adam Silvera
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsAdam Silvera's extraordinary debut confronts race, class, and sexuality during one charged near-future summer in the Bronx.
by Celeste Ng
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsA profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait.
by John C. Whaley
Published Mar 2015
Read ReviewsTravis Coates has a good head on someone else's shoulders. A touching, hilarious, and wholly original coming-of-age story from John Corey Whaley, author of the Printz and Morris Awardwinning Where Things Come Back.
by E Lockhart
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsWe Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
by Amy McNamara
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsA resonant debut novel about retreating from the world after losing everything - and the connections that force you to rejoin it.
by Sara Zarr
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsSamara Taylor used to believe in miracles. But her mother is in rehab, and her father seems more interested in his congregation than his family. And when a young girl in her small town is kidnapped, her already-worn thread of faith begins to unravel. (Young Adults)
by Natalie Standiford
Published Dec 2010
Read ReviewsNew to town, Beatrice is seated next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet loner who hasn't made a new friend since third grade. Something about him, though, gets to Bea, and soon they form an unexpected friendship.
by Kevin Henkes
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsWhen two boys come to spend the summer at Bird Lake, each is reeling from his own personal tragedy. Both boys arrive scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start to heal.
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsIn her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores a girl's descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery.
by Jenny Downham
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsThe story of Tessa, a young teenage girl who has only months to live ... a brilliantly crafted novel, heartbreaking yet life-affirming.
by Alice Sebold
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsA luminous and astonishing novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, joy, heaven, and healing.
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