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100 Sideways Miles
Finn Easton is trying to find his own story, but between epileptic blank-outs and his doomed first love, he has a hard time seeing his path. Heyborne's angsty, discontented teen guy narration perfectly expresses Finn's frustration with the universe.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9781442444966
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Afterworlds
With a contract in hand for her YA novel, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel arrives in New York City. Over the course of a year, Darcy finishes her book, faces critique, and falls in love in love with the enigmatic Imogene. Woven into Darcy's personal story is her novel, Afterworlds, a suspenseful thriller about a teen who slips into the “Afterworld” to survive a terrorist attack. -
And We Stay
Reeling from her boyfriend's dramatic suicide, Emily hides her anguish at a new boarding school, where she finds healing through poetry. Hubbard's gem-like prose beautifully balances Emily's poetry.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015, Michael L. Printz Award 2015
- ISBN: 9780385740579
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Breakfast Served Anytime
Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted students, Gloria struggles with the recent death of her beloved grandmother as she strives to make new friends.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780763667917
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The Carnival at Bray
Moving from Chicago to Ireland hasn't been easy. Maggie particularly misses Uncle Kevin, who shares her love of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. When tragedy falls, will Maggie's new life help her to survive?
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Everything Leads To You
Emi and her best friend Charlotte are invited to stay at Emi's brother's apartment in LA for the summer after graduation, with one condition: they must do something “epic” while he's gone. When they discover a cryptic letter from a world-famous celebrity, Emi thinks that this mystery might be what they're looking for. -
Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders
When the school's band program is cut to fund the cheerleader dance team, Gabe, the band's “fat kid,” decides to make a stand.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9781402291418
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Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
During Gabi's senior year of high school, she navigates her family's ideas about “good girls” and “bad girls” while figuring out who she wants to be. -
Girls Like Us
After graduating from their high school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy learn to trust each other as they navigate an often dangerous world. -
The Gospel of Winter
As Aidan's family disintegrates, he turns to Father Greg for love and comfort, an act that transforms into something dark and unexpected.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9781442484894
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How it Went Down
When Tariq, a black teenager, is gunned down by a white man, everybody has a different perspective on how it went down. -
I'll Give You the Sun
Artistic twins Jude and Noah each have only half the story of why they broke apart. Their art becomes a force of its own as they negotiate love, loss, lies and the possibility of reuniting their lives. -
The Impossible Knife of Memory
Hayley and her veteran father have just returned to his hometown, but life at a new school and the ever increasing severity of her father's PTSD make Hayley's life unpredictable and uncontrollable.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780670012091
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Lost Girl Found
Her village in war-torn Sudan destroyed, Poni walks to a refugee camp, where she must make difficult choices to survive.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9781554984169
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Road Rash
Drummer Zach has the best summer of his life when he goes on the road with his band, Bad Habit.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780385753425
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The Scar Boys
In a college admission essay, Harry Jones reveals the physical and psychological scars of his childhood and the solace and self-confidence he found in friendship and punk music.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015, William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2015
- ISBN: 9781606844397
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Tease
Sara Wharton is a bully but not, she insists, a murderer. But Emma Putnam is dead from a suicide—she was literally bullied to death—and Sara has been criminally charged.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780062305305
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Threatened
Hired by a professor to help him research chimpanzees, Luc is left alone in the jungle when the professor vanishes, setting of a struggle for survival.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780545551434
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A Time to Dance
When an accident leaves Veda, a classical dancer in India, a below-knee amputee, she becomes determined not to give up her passion.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780399257100
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The Tyrant's Daughter
Laila's father, the king of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, was killed in a coup. Now living in exile, Laila searches for the truth about her family's past and its prospective future.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780449809976
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The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
When their school decides to host a reality TV show of dubious distinction, four students band together to save the school and its students from commercial exploitation.- Realistic Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780385753784
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When I Was the Greatest
Ali and brothers Noodles and Needles are neighbors. While those on the street accept Needles (who suffers from Tourette's), the three boys—attending a forbidden party—discover that not everyone is so forgiving.