Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
By: Olivia A. Cole
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a…
Want to Read $ 8.99"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the earth."-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR THROAT ATTENTION! I MAY LOOK LIKE PREY BUT I WILL END YOUR LIFE"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywhere, sometimes visible and sometimes only popping out at the eye when a light is shined from a specific angle."-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes through a stained-glass window. My hair is the color of a fire engine driving through a burning building. My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison. It’s called aposematism— we learned about it in bio. It’s when an animal advertises to predators that it is not worth the attempt to consume. Bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR THROAT ATTENTION! I MAY LOOK LIKE PREY BUT I WILL END YOUR LIFE My mother says I want attention and maybe she’s right My mother says I am just making a statement and maybe she’s right But in my mind it’s not saying please— it’s saying don’t and this is how I know men are not really wolves because maybe a wolf would listen."-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
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1. Nocne godziny
By: Marta Bijan
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
To miał być najpiękniejszy horror na świecie... Salla, Lamia i Kail są rodzeństwem i zupełnie na… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
2. Plan A
By: Deb Caletti
4.02
Format: 416 pages, Library Binding
A sixteen-year-old girl’s road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative … read more
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- feminism
- realistic fiction
- young adult
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3. Osobliwy dar Vanilli Bourbon
By: Mańka Smolarczyk
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Jak pachnie miłość? Vanilla Bourbon nie jest zwykłą szesnastolatką. Po stracie ojca mieszka z ni… read more
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- young adult
4. Chaos Theory
By: Nic Stone
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
By: Ellen O'Clover
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A clever, charming, and poignant debut novel about a girl who must decide whether to pursue her dre… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"We're always just looking for each other."-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
"You will become people you can’t even fathom yet. I wish I could be here to meet every version of you, Rosie. I know I would love each one more than the last"-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
"We heard each other in that language between two people who’ve never known a life without the other in it. He didn’t have to speak to tell me he was upset. I didn’t have to show him my hurt for him t…"-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
6. All the Fighting Parts
By: Hannah V. Sawyerr
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
7. 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
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
8. 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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- mental health
9. Invisible Son
By: Kim Johnson
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Library Binding
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more
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- fiction
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- young adult
- contemporary
10. Wszyscy byliśmy za młodzi
By: Maria Lichoń
4.21
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Wszystko stało się bardzo szybko. Nagle staliśmy się dorośli – choć nie całkiem. Nie byliśmy już dz… read more
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- young adult
- mental health
11. Bliźniaczy płomień
By: Maksymilian Kuznowicz
3.47
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Zamknij oczy. Wyłącz myślenie. Posłuchaj serca. Życie Daikiego wywraca się do góry nogami po tym… read more
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- queer
- young adult
- lgbt
12. Zanim wybuchnie słońce
By: Józefina Płotka
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Jak potoczy się twoje życie, gdy dopuścisz do głosu serce? Leon, zbuntowany nastolatek, który ma… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
13. We Are All So Good at Smiling
By: Amber McBride
3.88
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more
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- poetry
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"Sorrow is no one's fault."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"The only way out is through."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
14. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
By: Olivia A. Cole
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
15. The Name She Gave Me
By: Betty Culley
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Three Things I Know Are True comes a new novel in verse, a deeply emot… read more
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- poetry
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Douglas is safe and Dad knew all along that I hid from Mom under the porch. He saved Douglas, but he never saved me. “And right there on the ground I decide I’m going to save anyone I can. It won’t m…"-Betty Culley, The Name She Gave Me
16. Star Splitter
By: Matthew J. Kirby
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Crash-landed on a desolate planet lightyears from Earth, sixteen-year-old Jessica Mathers must unra… read more
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- lgbt
17. Enter the Body
By: Joy McCullough
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Broken people can be loved."-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body
"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body
"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body
"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body
18. An Appetite for Miracles
By: Laekan Zea Kemp
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must co… read more
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- poetry
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"...Faith doesn't work without common sense."-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles
"Dear God. I know our relationship is not supposed to be transactional. But, You are the one who invented an eye for an eye, so, maybe I can entice you with a good deal."-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles
"Because there are people in our lives; rare unexpected people who don't just walk beside us through life; they witness our lives too. They hold our memories in their DNA. So that when one body forget…"-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles
19. Cracking the Bell
By: Geoff Herbach
3.79
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
Friday Night Lights meets Concussion in this powerful and important novel by Geoff Herbach, author … read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
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- contemporary
20. Wakacje pod morzem
By: Marta Bijan
3.67
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
To mogłoby być kolejne zwyczajne lato nad polskim morzem, gdyby nie Hotel Bursztyn. Leo prawie n… read more
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- young adult
21. Mchy i paprocie będą naszym grobem
By: Hania Czaban
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Będzie duszno... Niepokojący thriller, który sprawi, że zwątpisz w to, co widzisz. Pięć lat t… read more
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- fiction
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