Three Things I Know Are True
By: Betty Culley
4.08
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
This moving debut novel in verse about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of an accident tha…
Want to Read $ 11.49"The sounds Mom made were worse than Jonah's. So now the nurses call me."-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
"I have a theory about friendship. One friend is always nicer. Jonah made everyone laugh. He could talk to anyone about anything, but Clay was nicer."-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
"I know how that is-- how the worst thing is right where you least expect it to be-- in your lungs, in your chest, in the attic of the house right across the street."-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
"So impatient to start his big life, to make people laugh, to see what would happen. Doing anything for a dare. So afraid he'd be stuck in Maddigan, Maine, for the rest of his life."-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
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1. Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade, #1)
By: Virginia Euwer Wolff
3.62
Format: 280 pages,
An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices Virginia Euwer Wolff's groundbreaking no… read more
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2. Alone
By: Megan E. Freeman
4.14
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more
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- poetry
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3. In the Wild Light
By: Jeff Zentner
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his P… read more
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- romance
- poetry
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"Because for every way the world tries to kill us, it gives us a way to survive. You just gotta find it."-Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light
"This is what you remember of the people you love when they're gone—the ways they knew you that no one else did—even you. In that way, their passing is a death of a piece of yourself."-Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light
"You’ll never regret a decision more than the one you make out of fear. Fear tells you to make your life small. Fear tells you to think small. Fear tells you to be small-hearted. Fear seeks to preserv…"-Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light
4. Something Like Home
By: Andrea Beatriz Arango
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Library Binding
A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more
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- poetry
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5. Mascot
By: Charles Waters
4.02
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more
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- poetry
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6. Heroine
By: Mindy McGinnis
4.27
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
An Amazon Best Book of the Month! A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis—the d… read more
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- realistic fiction
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- audiobook
"You’re my hero, Mickey Catalan,"-Mindy McGinnis, Heroine
"heroine: a woman of heroic spirit; the principal female person who figures in a remarkable action"-Mindy McGinnis, Heroine
"All my life people have told me how strong I am, like it’s the best thing I’ve got to offer. I know they mean it in all the ways—physically, emotionally, mentally—and I am. But I’m also tired, worn o…"-Mindy McGinnis, Heroine
7. Me: Moth
By: Amber McBride
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A debut YA novel-in-verse that is both a coming-of-age and a ghost story. Moth has lost her fami… read more
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- poetry
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- mental health
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- audiobook
"Most of the founding fathers were like that; they spoke of freedom but did not offer it to everyone. They had bodies in their closets."-Amber McBride, Me: Moth
"Places we decide to stop. Monticello Plantation, Charlottesville, Virginia: Where Thomas Jefferson committed several sins; we go to stomp on hateful plantation ground."-Amber McBride, Me: Moth
8. The Truth Project
By: Dante Medema
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school.… read more
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"I've been cut open and spread out so everyone can see how every moment my heart pumps is a moment it bleeds."-Dante Medema, The Truth Project
9. The Bridge
By: Bill Konigsberg
4.00
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Two teenagers, strangers to each other, have decided to jump from the same bridge at the same time.… read more
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10. Three Things I Know Are True
By: Betty Culley
4.08
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
This moving debut novel in verse about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of an accident tha… read more
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- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
"The sounds Mom made were worse than Jonah's. So now the nurses call me."-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
"I have a theory about friendship. One friend is always nicer. Jonah made everyone laugh. He could talk to anyone about anything, but Clay was nicer."-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
"I know how that is-- how the worst thing is right where you least expect it to be-- in your lungs, in your chest, in the attic of the house right across the street."-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
"So impatient to start his big life, to make people laugh, to see what would happen. Doing anything for a dare. So afraid he'd be stuck in Maddigan, Maine, for the rest of his life."-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
11. Promise Boys
By: Nick Brooks
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more
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- realistic fiction
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12. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel
By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
4.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more
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- family
13. Saints of the Household
By: Ari Tison
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more
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- poetry
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- mental health
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
14. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
By: Dashka Slater
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more
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- audiobook
- mental health
15. Iveliz Explains It All
By: Andrea Beatriz Arango
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Library Binding
How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more
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- realistic fiction
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"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
16. This Will Be Funny Someday
By: Katie Henry
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A girl walks into a bar… then onto a stage, and up to the mic. Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to … read more
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- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
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- audiobook
"you are biologically incapable of being funny"-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday
"How do you know they both went to Harvard? Mom smiles. 'It's like with vegans, sweetheart. They tell you."-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday
"...that's the biggest reason people laugh at anything. Surprise. Unpredictability. We love being wrong about things... The surprise is the best part."-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday
"The world wants girls to be pretty and polite,’ Mo says. ‘And careful and deferential and selfless. You can’t be any of those things onstage. The world is a better place when you’re onstage."-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday
17. Girls Like Us
By: Randi Pink
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Set in the summer of 1972, this moving YA historical novel is narrated by teen girls from different… read more
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18. Ordinary Hazards
By: Nikki Grimes
4.40
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
In her own voice, author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a mem… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- family
- mental health
"I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own."-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards
"this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand, except for this: Magicians rarely share their secrets."-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards
"Trauma is a memory hog, It gobbles up all available space in the brain, leaves little room to mark daily happenstances, or even routine injuries which are less than life-threatening."-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards
"MY BLACK ME My father fed me Invisible Man, Native Son, No Longer at Ease, Black Man's Burden, and the more I read, the madder I got, and I already had reason to scream, but my father kept me dreamin…"-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards
19. 500 Words or Less
By: Juleah del Rosario
3.48
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Nic Chen refuses to spend her senior year branded as the girl who cheated on her charismatic and lo… read more
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- audiobook
20. Chlorine Sky
By: Mahogany L. Browne
3.82
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best… read more
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- poetry
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"Everybody wants to be a hero But most of us are just misunderstood villains"-Mahogany L. Browne, Chlorine Sky
"A friend is someone seeing you And hearing you Without you having to say Everything Every time"-Mahogany L. Browne, Chlorine Sky
"When you live where we live You say what it is & if you can't say what it is Or if it hurt too much, Or maybe it's too confusing You just say "whatever" That way you ain't no lie"-Mahogany L. Browne, Chlorine Sky
"When I was younger I thought I had superpowers Thought if I sat real still and stared at a book No one would be able to see me I got so good at it I forgot that I’m the only one playing the game Sit …"-Mahogany L. Browne, Chlorine Sky
21. Why We Fly
By: Kimberly Jones
3.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight comes a compelling YA novel about th… read more
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