Orbiting Jupiter
By: Gary D. Schmidt
3.83
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost kill…
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1. Life in a Fishbowl
By: Len Vlahos
3.54
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Jackie Stone is a prisoner in her own house. Everything she says and does 24/7 is … read more
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- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"Love can make us weak-kneed and wobbly, but when it needs to, it can make us stronger than steel."-Len Vlahos, Life in a Fishbowl
"While time doesn’t necessarily heal all wounds, it does provide just enough scar tissue to allow people to move on."-Len Vlahos, Life in a Fishbowl
"Ethan also knew that denying Jared medical care would be tantamount to murder, and while that would make for good television, it wouldn't resonate with the sponsors."-Len Vlahos, Life in a Fishbowl
2. We Were Liars
By: E. Lockhart
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, po… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
3. If He Had Been with Me
By: Laura Nowlin
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August ni… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
4. House Arrest
By: K.A. Holt
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
Stealing is bad. Yeah. I know. But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
5. Long Way Down
By: Jason Reynolds
4.25
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RU… read more
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- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"How do you tell water ain't nothing funny about drowing?"-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Best to become invisible in times like these. Everybody knows that."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"just because they were dead. People always love people more when they’re dead."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Pretended like yellow tape was some kind of neighborhood flag that don't nobody wave but always be flapping in the wind."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
6. This Is Where It Ends
By: Marieke Nijkamp
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
10:00 a.m.The principal of Opportunity High School finishes her speech, welcoming the entire studen… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
7. The Way I Used to Be
By: Amber Smith
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition
There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN . In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary … read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
8. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
By: Sara Pascoe
4.30
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more
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- fiction
- teen
- young adult
"What’s “ague?"-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
9. Orbiting Jupiter
By: Gary D. Schmidt
3.83
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost kill… read more
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- teen
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
10. Holding Up the Universe
By: Jennifer Niven
4.07
Format: None pages,
Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's… read more
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11. The Outsiders
By: S.E. Hinton
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Pon… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"We saw the same sunset."-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
"Nothing sparkly can stay."-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
"Things are rough all over."-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
"Okay greasers, you've had it."-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
12. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By: Stephen Chbosky
4.23
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see wha… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- teen
- young adult
"We accept the love we think we deserve."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"It’s much easier not to know things sometimes."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
13. Every Last Word
By: Tamara Ireland Stone
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of… read more
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14. Girl in Pieces
By: Kathleen Glasgow
5.00
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifet… read more
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15. All the Bright Places
By: Jennifer Niven , None
4.12
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story a… read more
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- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Is today a good day to die?"-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
"Never bullshit a bullshitter."-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
"People rarely bring flowers to a suicide."-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
"Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel."-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
16. Speak
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"I have never heard a more eloquent silence."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
17. How It Feels to Float
By: Helena Fox
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And sh… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Truth and truth split in two and walk side by side."-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float
"Here I am, in borrowed bones, in makeshift skin, looking out it eyes that are a construct, breathing with lungs that are only a step–a basic rearrangement–away from leaves. How funny, to have a body …"-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float
18. If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)
By: Laura Nowlin
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
If only I’d told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn’t be here now. Finn has always lo… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"I'll love her even if she turns out to be cruel. That's my curse."-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)
"Finn, it's high school. It's an ecosystem, and you just stot right to the top of the food pyramid!"-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)
"Why did you have to leave me like that?" is what comes out . "I was tired. You were reading." "No." I'm not holding back. I say it. "After we turned thirteen. Why did you leave me like that?"-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)
"Like, fairy-tale love? Cartoon character with hearts floating all around him? Or a movie montage with the best song? That's what you were to him. You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him."-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)
19. How to Make Friends with the Dark
By: Kathleen Glasgow
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
Here is what happens when your mother dies. It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outsi… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"Always the universe, against you."-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
"Are you going to kill yourself, Grace? Are you going to wrist, hang, gun?"-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
"Last night scared me, how calm I felt, thinking about killing myself. The S word"-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
"Somewhere in those hours, those minutes, those seconds, your mom was, and then she wasn't"-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
20. You'd Be Home Now
By: Kathleen Glasgow
4.15
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a tow… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- family
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"The air was better then."-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now
"Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else."-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now
21. Louder Than Hunger
By: John Schu
4.55
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as… read more
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- middle grade
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