Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues

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Hold Still

Nina LaCour

In the wake of her best friend IngridÕs suicide, Caitlin is left alone, struggling to find hope and answers. When she finds the journal Ingrid left behind for her, she begins a journey of understanding and broadening her horizons tha...

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Published: Oct 2010

Fracture

Megan Miranda

Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow de...

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Published: Jan 2013

Teach Me

R. A. Nelson

Teach Me invites readers inside an experience that fascinates everyone—an affair between a teacher and student—and gives an up-close-and-personal answer to the question: How does this happen? The hardcover edition of Teach Me was ...

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Published: Apr 2007

R. J. Palacio - The Wonder Collection...

R. J. Palacio

WonderAugust (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He's about to enter fifth grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid, then you know how h...

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Published: Feb 2017

They All Fall Down

Roxanne St Claire

If you can't wait for the premiere of Fox TV's hot new series, Scream Queens, you will race through the pages of this pulse-pounding thriller. It's Pretty Little Liars meets Final Destination as this group of high school elites unco...

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Published: Mar 2016

The List

Siobhan Vivian

An intense look at the rules of high school attraction -- and the price that's paid for them.It happens every year before homecoming -- the list is posted all over school. Two girls are picked from each grade. One is named the prettie...

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Published: Jan 2014

After Tupac & D Foster

Jacqueline Woodson

When D Foster walks into Neeka and her best friend's lives, their world opens up. D doesn't have a "real" mom constantly telling her what to do, and the girls envy her independence. But D wants nothing more than to feel conn...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jul 2009

The Pigman

Paul Zindel

John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen have to tell about something that just happened to them, about an experience too overwhelming to keep private.The two high-school sophomores come from constricting, unhappy homes, and although life seem...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

Keep in Touch: Letters, Notes, and Mo...

Ann Brashares

Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Lena decides they s...

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Published: Apr 2005

Girl in the Arena

Lise Haines

As a modern gladiator's daughter, Lyn and her family live by the rules of the Gladiator Sports Association. But those rules can turn against you. When Lyn's seventh father dies in the ring, his opponent, Uber, captures Lyn's dowry bra...

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Published: Aug 2010

The Rainbow Fish (Board Book)

Marcus Pfister

A board book edition of a popular modern classic follows the tale of a beautiful iridescent fish, who suffers a life of loneliness until he decides to share his glittering scales with a catch of new friends.

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Published: Jan 1999

Fat Girl

Marilyn Sachs

Jeff Lyons can't stand Ellen de Luca, the fat girl in his ceramics class. She's huge, clumsy, can't throw a pot to save her life, and stares at Jeff all the time. But he's a 'nice guy' and feels terrible when Ellen overhears his hurtf...

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Published: Apr 2007

Pretty Little Liars: Ali's Pretty Lit...

Sara Shepard

Perfect for fans of the #1 New York Times bestselling series and the hit ABC Family TV show, this Pretty Little Liars prequel novel reveals Ali's secrets from before she was murdered.Rewind a few years to seventh grade: Alison DiLaure...

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Published: Dec 2013

Need

Carrie Jones

Zara White suspects there's a freaky guy semi-stalking her. She's also obsessed with phobias. And it's true, she hasn't exactly been herself since her stepfather died. But exiling her to shivery Maine to live with her grandmother? Tha...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2009

Boy Meets Boy

David Levithan

In this delightful young adult novel for readers 12 and up, high school sophomore Paul says, 'There isn't really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They got all mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best.' And, as ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2008

Theodora Twist

Melissa Senate

'I'm going to have to come up with something really good to get you back into the public's good graces. I have no idea what, but trust me. I'll think of something.'Well that's what Theodora pays her agent $100,000 a year for, isn't it...

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Published: Nov 2007

The Unexpected Everything

Morgan Matson

Andie must learn to embrace the beauty in chaos in this New York Times bestselling novel about friendship, finding yourself, and all the joys in life that happen while you’re busy making other plans.Andie has a plan. And she always ...

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Published: Apr 2017

If You Could Be Mine

Sara Farizan

This Forbidden Romance Could Cost Them Their LivesWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult One of Rolling Stone's 40 Best YA Novels A 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 Title A Booklist Top 10 First Novels for You...

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Published: Sep 2014

Becoming Chloe

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Meet Jordy. He's on his own in New York City. Nobody to depend on; nobody depending on him. And it's been working fine.Until this girl comes along. She's 18 and blond and pretty–her world should be perfect. But she's seen things no ...

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Published: Nov 2008

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

Morgan Matson

Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy's senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, d...

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Published: May 2011

Dead to You

Lisa McMann

A powerful psychological thriller with a shocking twist from the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy.Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was just seven years old. Now, at sixteen, he has returned to his fa...

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Published: Dec 2012

Just in Case

Meg Rosoff

David Case never questions his ordinary suburban life -- until one fateful day, a brush with death brings him face to face with his own mortality. Suddenly, everywhere he looks he sees catastrophe, disaster, the ruin of the human race...

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Published: Feb 2008

Living Dead Girl

Elizabeth Scott

"Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared.Once upon a time, my name was not Alice.Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was."When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends – her life....

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2009

A Summer Girls Novel (Girls In Love)

Hailey Abbott

Hot days. Hotter nights. The girls are back. JESSICA: Connor and I are in love, and we're both ready to take the next step. So then why is he spending all his time with another girl? LARA: I thought Andrew and I were through, and I m...

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Published: May 2010

Saints and Misfits

S. K. Ali

A William C. Morris Award FinalistAn Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017Saints and Misfits is a "timely and authentic" (School Library Journal, starred review) debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life...

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Published: Jun 2018

The Wicker King

K. Ancrum

The Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness."An eerie and mesmerizing thriller that questions the space where reality and perception overlap, The Wicker ...

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Published: Oct 2018

Loser/Queen

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Cammy Hall is what anyone would describe as a loser. She lives with her grandparents and has adopted their way of life… right down to the comfortable shoes and early bedtime. And can she help it that she actually likes to knit? At s...

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Published: Dec 2010

The Impossible Knife of Memory

Laurie Halse Anderson

For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town...

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Published: Jun 2015

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson

Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within,...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

The Underneath

Kathi Appelt

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of th...

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Published: Jan 2010
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