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by Laurel Fantauzzo
Published Nov 2023
Read ReviewsFans of Adib Khorram and Randy Ribay will love this coming-of-age debut about a Filipina American teen drowning under pressure and learning to trust her heart.
by Rainbow Rowell
Published Jun 2020
Read ReviewsSet 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. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love - and just how hard it pulled you under.
by John Green
Published Jun 2019
Read Reviews#1 bestselling author John Green returns with his first new novel since The Fault in Our Stars!
by Jeff Zentner
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsA touching debut chronicles the coming-of-age of three high school seniors, misfits and best friends in a sepia-toned portrait of small-town life.
by Meredith Russo
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsA new kind of big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are.
by Garrard Conley
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsA beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding.
by Cammie McGovern
Published Dec 2016
Read ReviewsCammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this powerful and unforgettable novel about learning from your mistakes, and learning to forgive. Told in alternating points of view, A Step Toward Falling is a poignant, hopeful, and altogether stunning work that will appeal to fans of Jennifer Nevin, Robyn ...
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 Pratima Cranse
Published Nov 2015
Read ReviewsWhen you're about to face the world, who do you turn to?
by Jandy Nelson
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsA brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell. Winner of the BookBrowse 2014 Award for Best Young Adult Novel.
Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly
by Conrad Wesselhoeft
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsVideo gamer and daredevil dirt bike rider Arlo Santiago is recruited by the U.S. military at White Sands to pilot drone missions in Pakistan. When the game becomes all too real, how will Arlo reconcile his duty with the violent death that haunts his family?
by Brendan Kiely
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsA fearless debut novel about the restorative power of truth and love after the trauma of abuse.
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 Matt Greene
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsA brilliant and moving coming-of-age story in the tradition of Wonder by R. J. Palacio and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - this debut novel is written with tremendous humor and charm.
by Beth Kephart
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsLyrically told in a way that makes the heat, the colors, and the smells of Spain feel alive, Small Damages is a feast for the heart and the soul, and a coming-of-age novel not easily forgotten.
by Carol Rifka Brunt
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsIn this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them.
by Cris Beam
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsAn inspiring story of self-discovery, of choosing to stand up for yourself, and of finding your own path - readers will recognize a part of themselves in J's struggle to love his true self.
by Rachel DeWoskin
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsA scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.
by R.J. Palacio
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsWonder is a spare, warm, uplifting story that will have readers laughing one minute and wiping away tears the next.
by Kathleen Winter
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsAward-winning Canadian author Kathleen Winters Annabel is a stunning debut novel about the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a rural hunting community in the 1960s.
by Carol Lynch Williams
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsKyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her ...
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