Nothing but Life
By: Brent van Staalduinen
3.24
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
During a sweltering summer, Dills must come to terms with a horrific crime and the parent he loves …
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1. The Female of the Species
By: Mindy McGinnis
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft kno… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
2. The Whole Thing Together
By: Ann Brashares
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
We live in the same place, but never together. Summer for Sasha and Ray means the sprawling old hou… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
3. Asking For It
By: Louise O'Neill
3.16
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, … read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity, #2)
By: Victoria Schwab
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
THE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY. KATE HARKERisn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And sh… read more
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5. Under This Red Rock
By: Mindy McGinnis
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in h… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- young adult
- mental health
6. The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
By: Soman Chainani
3.99
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some yea… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"Hold on to me!"-Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
"Beauty is a full-time job."-Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
"I've been beautiful all along."-Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
"A slave to his hearts mistakes."-Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
7. Blood Like Magic (Blood Like Magic, #1)
By: Liselle Sambury
3.97
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
8. 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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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
By: Nic Stone
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the stunning and hard-hitting sequel to the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin, incarcerated … read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Resist when the world tries to convince you otherwise."-Nic Stone, Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
10. Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava, #2)
By: Roshani Chokshi
4.32
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Aru is only just getting the hang of this whole Pandava thing when the Otherworld goes into full pa… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"But I am more than my moment of anger."-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava, #2)
"Answering a wrong with a wrong doesn't make it right."-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava, #2)
"What is fair and what is just do not always look the same."-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava, #2)
"Don't forget that misguided intentions are often the most dangerous."-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava, #2)
11. The Forest of Stolen Girls
By: June Hur
3.75
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur's The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
12. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
By: Jen Ferguson
4.05
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more
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- canada
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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- canada
- mental health
14. Don't Breathe a Word
By: Jordyn Taylor
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Present Day: Eva has never felt like she belonged... not in her own family or with her friends in … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
15. Be Not Far from Me
By: Mindy McGinnis
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhe… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help."-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me
"I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips…"-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me
16. What Unbreakable Looks Like
By: Kate McLaughlin
4.32
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Lex was taken – trafficked - and now she’s Poppy. Kept in a hotel with other girls, her old life is… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"Me against the world is frightening. Us against the world is comforting."-Kate McLaughlin, What Unbreakable Looks Like
"It must be nice to live in a world where you don’t see the darkness in people."-Kate McLaughlin, What Unbreakable Looks Like
"You did nothing wrong. I’m going to keep telling you that until you believe it."-Kate McLaughlin, What Unbreakable Looks Like
"I can’t imagine what you’ve been through, but I want to understand you, okay? I want to help you get through this. If you want to talk, I’m here. If you don’t . . . well, I’m still here. Always."-Kate McLaughlin, What Unbreakable Looks Like
17. The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)
By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When Moira Dreyfuss's parents announce that they're sending her to an all-girls boarding school dee… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- young adult
- mental health
18. Gutter Child
By: Jael Richardson
3.86
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award Cityline Book Club Pick … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- canada
"What if greatness only happens when we're together, when we don't let them pull us apart?"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"It takes a particular kind of strength to exist in a world where you are not wanted that doesn't feel like strength at all."-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"When I drew pictures of Mother and me, I used Peach for her and Chestnut for myself. "Why is your skin named after something soft and sweet and mine is something hard and bitter?" "Because you are so…"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"A girl learns who she is from the woman she sees loving her," Ida says. "She learns what's good and what's lovely about herself, and the further apart she is from that woman, and the more different t…"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
19. Aftermath
By: Kelley Armstrong
4.06
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye Gilchrist is moving home. But … read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
20. Delicious Monsters
By: Liselle Sambury
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller fo… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
21. The Witch's Hand (The Montague Twins, #1)
By: Nathan Page
4.00
Format: 352 pages, None
Brothers. Detectives. Witches? Meet Pete and Alastair Montague in the first installment of a new gr… read more
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- young adult
22. To Best the Boys
By: Mary Weber
3.68
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The task is simple: don a disguise. Survive the Labyrinth. Best the boys. In a thrilling new fan… read more
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- young adult
"You follow your dreams, not your guilt, Rhen."-Mary Weber, To Best the Boys
"I’m just tired of feeling like the way things are is the only way they can ever be."-Mary Weber, To Best the Boys
"Any young men you specifically hope will win Rhen?" the old cat biddies ask. "No". Because Seleni and I aren't men."-Mary Weber, To Best the Boys
"You take this world and make it what it should be. And don’t let the beliefs of a backward system define you. You are the one who has to live with the future, baby girl. So you live it. You understan…"-Mary Weber, To Best the Boys
23. Sorry For Your Loss
By: Joanne Levy
4.11
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Evie Walman is not obsessed with death. She does think about it a lot, though, but only because her… read more
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- canada
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Someone else’s grief is not for you to solve."-Joanne Levy, Sorry For Your Loss
"But even though I didn’t think he liked me very much, at least he hadn’t called me any names or told me I smelled like death. So that was an improvement."-Joanne Levy, Sorry For Your Loss
"I took some comfort in thinking about how when I grew up and became a funeral director like my parents, I wouldn’t have to worry about my clients being mean to me. Because they’d already be dead."-Joanne Levy, Sorry For Your Loss
"Part of being a good funeral director— and even a good friend—is knowing that someone may not want to be consoled. They may not welcome your words of support, and you need to respect that. Someone el…"-Joanne Levy, Sorry For Your Loss
24. Bruised
By: Tanya Boteju
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an acci… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
25. Daughter
By: Kate McLaughlin
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Scarlet’s life is pretty average. Overly protective mom. Great friends. Cute boy she’s interested i… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
26. The Wild
By: Owen Laukkanen
3.45
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
With an instantly compelling protagonist who finds herself fighting for her life in the wilderness … read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
27. Fight Like a Girl
By: Sheena Kamal
3.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Beauty of the Moment meets Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Award-winning thriller writer Sheena Kamal … read more
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- young adult
- canada
- contemporary
28. Nothing but Life
By: Brent van Staalduinen
3.24
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
During a sweltering summer, Dills must come to terms with a horrific crime and the parent he loves … read more
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- canada
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Lightning Circle
By: Vikki VanSickle
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An intimate coming-of age novel for teens, told in verse with delicate line art, chronicling the be… read more
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- canada
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
30. Decoding Dot Grey
By: Nicola Davison
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Eighteen-year-old Dot Grey doesn’t hate people; she’s just not especially fond of their company. I… read more
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"The thing that makes people themselves is partly in their muscles, the way they smirk, hold their eyebrows just so when delivering a terrible joke or talking for a hairless rat."-Nicola Davison, Decoding Dot Grey
31. Wrong Side of the Court
By: H.N. Khan
3.57
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Fawad has big dreams about being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into th… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
