Just Our Luck
By: Julia Walton
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Words on Bathroom Walls— now a major motion picture—comes a romance in the spiri…
Want to Read $ 7.99"She wasn't loud per se, but she filled a room. I knew she was there before I heard her, and I guess she filled more than the physical space. She filled my childhood."-Julia Walton, Just Our Luck
"She wasn't loud per se, but she filled a room. I knew she was there before I heard her, and I guess she filled more than the physical space. She filled my childhood."-Julia Walton, Just Our Luck
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1. Extraordinary Means
By: Robyn Schneider
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
When he's sent to Latham House, a boarding school for sick teens, Lane thinks his life may as well … read more
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2. The Upside of Falling Down
By: Rebekah Crane
3.91
Format: 528 pages,
Set in Southwest Ireland and features a girl who is the lone survivor of a plane crash. She wakes u… read more
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3. Towers Falling
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 a… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
"Home. It's where we come from. Who we are."-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Towers Falling
"Home is our starting point for connecting to the past."-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Towers Falling
"When asked a question, class, it's important to consider how it's framed. Sometimes a question is a door to another question, another way of seeing. Understanding."-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Towers Falling
4. The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
By: Chelsea Sedoti
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
A teenage misfit named Hawthorn Creely inserts herself in the investigation of missing person Lizzi… read more
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5. Ellen Outside the Lines
By: A.J. Sass
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a neurodivergent thirteen-year-old navigating changing friendships, a school trip, an… read more
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- realistic fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Not every person fits neatly into categories. Life doesn't always stick to a planned itinerary."-A.J. Sass, Ellen Outside the Lines
6. Rules for Being a Girl
By: Candace Bushnell
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl. . . . Marin has al… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Remember, girl: It's the best time in the history of the world to be you. You can do anything! You can do everything! You can be whatever you want to be! Just as long as you follow the rules."-Candace Bushnell, Rules for Being a Girl
"It starts before you can remember: you learn, as surely as you learn to walk and talk, the rules for being a girl... Put a little color on your face. Shave your legs. Don’t wear too much makeup. Don’…"-Candace Bushnell, Rules for Being a Girl
7. Hot British Boyfriend
By: Kristy Boyce
3.38
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
After a horrifying public rejection by her crush, Ellie Nichols does what any girl would do: she fl… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
8. Four Found Dead
By: Natalie D. Richards
3.45
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning. … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
9. Starfish
By: Akemi Dawn Bowman
4.19
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushi… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
"I feel like I'm the one made out of paper."-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish
"I'd rather have an ugly face than an ugly heart."-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish
"I live my life in the small space between "uncomfortable and "awkward."-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish
"If I can’t figure out how to live on my own一how to do things on my own一how am I supposed to live at all?"-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish
10. 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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- romance
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
11. 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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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
12. Dress Coded
By: Carrie Firestone
4.17
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie , an eighth grade… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"What if, instead of seeing us as covered or uncovered body parts, you saw us as people and you learned our names?"-Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded
13. The Silence that Binds Us
By: Joanna Ho
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Maybelline Chen isn't the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May pre… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
14. 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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- romance
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
15. Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)
By: Victoria Fulton
3.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This addictive YA horror about a group of teen ghost hunters who spend the night in a haunted LA ho… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
"It's nice to have someone who knows you that well and still wants to see your face every day."-Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)
"I don't want to escape. I want to face him. And then, one by one, the girls he killed begin to show me their faces."-Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)
"Sometime they like to show me how they died. I don't know why, maybe it makes them feel less alone, less isolated. Maybe they just want someone to know, to witness it, so it gives their short life a …"-Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)
"He's the endgame boy. The one you make your dad be nice to at dinner, even if dinner is only Kentucky Fried Chicken. He's the boy you tell every secret to in the quiet of night and under the blanket …"-Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)
16. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
By: Nathalia Holt
4.18
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
In The Queens of Animation, author Nathalia Holt recounts the stories of a group of women who have … read more
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"Sadness transforms comedy, tingeing its edges with emotion and thus delivering fewer laughs but more real humor."-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
"It doesn't matter whether one's limbs are wooden or flesh; it is not out bodies that make us human but the way we treat one another."-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
17. The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel
By: Salva Rubio
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this graphic novel tells the in… read more
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- young adult
18. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
By: Stacy McAnulty
4.29
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A lightning strike gave her a super power... but even a super genius can't solve the problem of mid… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
19. Artifice
By: Sharon Cameron
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of Wor… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
20. A Danger to Herself and Others
By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel
3.86
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Only when she’s locked away does the truth begin to escape… Four walls. One window. No way to e… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Fractured Tide
By: Leslie Lutz
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lost meets Stranger Things in this eerie, immersive YA thriller, thrusting seventeen-year-old Sia i… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"You told me once the mind is an ocean, and most of us live on the surface. But the currents beneath, that’s what moves everything around. The currents make the boats shift position in the night, push…"-Leslie Lutz, Fractured Tide
22. Immortal Games, The
By: Annaliese Avery
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Blood Moon marks the start of the Immortal Games. The Gods of Olympus randomly select humans as… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
23. Picture Perfect Boyfriend
By: Becky Dean
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Two strangers, one tropical island, and lots of lies in this funny beach romance from the author of… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Why do you care?"-Becky Dean, Picture Perfect Boyfriend
"I’m sorry, I was rude?"-Becky Dean, Picture Perfect Boyfriend
"I knew you were spying on me."-Becky Dean, Picture Perfect Boyfriend
"The world needs more women in STEM"-Becky Dean, Picture Perfect Boyfriend
24. Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You)
By: Jessie Weaver
3.53
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds hide the darkest—and bloodiest—secrets.Social media influen… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
25. Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)
By: Katie Cotugno
3.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fresh new take on Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery The Mysterious Affair at Styles , with… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"There were a lot of different versions of the truth."-Katie Cotugno, Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)
"Every day I think about committing a murder just to spice things up."-Katie Cotugno, Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)
26. Planet Earth Is Blue
By: Nicole Panteleakos
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
27. Love, Comment, Subscribe (Ponto Beach Reunion, #1)
By: Cathy Yardley
3.76
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Back in high school, Lily Wang wanted to be popular, but she considered herself lucky to be part of… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Valley and the Flood
By: Rebecca Mahoney
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Rose Colter is almost home, but she can't go back there yet. When her car breaks down in the Nevada… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- young adult
- mental health
"I understand that better when I go to speak and I can't get the words out. I don't cry though, not yet. Crying I think is going to take time, unwrapping those layers of performances and straight face…"-Rebecca Mahoney, The Valley and the Flood
"We don't just talk about terrible things to purge them from ourselves. We talk about them so that the people who love us can tell us when we're wrong. That we're being unkind to ourselves, or unfair,…"-Rebecca Mahoney, The Valley and the Flood
29. Facing the Sun
By: Janice Lynn Mather
3.38
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A Caribbean-set story about four friends who experience unexpected changes in their lives during th… read more
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- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"...through the windows, the day is gathering it's pinky-orange skirts together, and making room for the night."-Janice Lynn Mather, Facing the Sun
"Written down, a poem becomes land, a thing that can be fenced off and taken away...Better for it to stay like water, free."-Janice Lynn Mather, Facing the Sun
"That's the thing with fences, though—where properties touch, only on person has to create a divide for both to feel the separation."-Janice Lynn Mather, Facing the Sun
"I hear music coming from across. the way, music unlike anything I've heard before. Neither church music nor island music, it lacks drums but seems heavy and sticky and sweet, like guava duff sauce, s…"-Janice Lynn Mather, Facing the Sun
30. Just Our Luck
By: Julia Walton
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Words on Bathroom Walls— now a major motion picture—comes a romance in the spiri… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- sports
"She wasn't loud per se, but she filled a room. I knew she was there before I heard her, and I guess she filled more than the physical space. She filled my childhood."-Julia Walton, Just Our Luck
31. Watch You Burn
By: Amanda Searcy
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Jenny didn't want to move to the creepy, possibly haunted town with her dad. But the cops are on to… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- young adult
- mental health
