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All Eyes on Us
Frick creates an intense thriller as tension builds between Rosalie and Amanda, both of whom are dating Carter Shaw, the heir to a real-estate empire. After the two girls receive anonymous threats, they team up to end the charade and reveal the mastermind.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781534404403
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All the Bad Apples
After Deena's seventeenth birthday, she's forced to reconcile her own coming out with the death of her sister—who, clues suggest, might still be alive. Now it's up to Deena to uncover the truth and break an age-old family curse of “bad apples.”- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780525552741
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The Art of Breaking Things
Skye has a reputation for being a party girl who will get with just about anyone. What no one knows is that her drug and alcohol use helps her forget a secret about her mother's fiancé and her fears about what he might do to her little sister.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780451481115
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Aurora Rising
When Tyler Jones saves Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, he doesn't expect to be pulled into an intergalactic adventure that threatens the living universe and puts his very values to the test. Instead, he's more worried about the rag-tag squad of Aurora Academy dredges that he's been assigned after missing the Draft. But together they embark on a mission to understand Aurora's paranormal behavior, and in the process become more than just friends.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Teens' Top Ten 2020
- ISBN: 9781524720995
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Birthday
Eric and Morgan are best friends who check in every year, from ages 13 to 18, on their shared birthday. Eric struggles with his family relationships, football, and feelings for Morgan, while Morgan struggles with the death of her mother and with making the decision to live as her true self.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250129833
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The Bone Houses
Ryn manages a graveyard, hewing closely to the old superstitions about how to make sure the dead stay dead. But when Ellis, a mapmaker, comes to town, the "bone houses" become more active than ever.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780316418416
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Butterfly Yellow
It's 1981, and Hằng has taken a perilous journey by fishing boat from Việt Nam to Amarillo, Texas, to find her little brother, Linh. Her arrival is not as welcome as she had hoped, since Linh appears to have forgotten her.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062229212
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Call It What You Want
Rob and Maegan connect romantically after peeling back the layers of hurt they and their families have experienced. Rob's dad embezzled money and is now incapacitated after a failed suicide attempt, while Maegan's label as a cheater leaves her ostracized. Paired on a school project, they bond through shared struggles.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781681198095
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Color Me In
Neveah Levitz is caught between the worlds of her African American mother and her Jewish father, who are battling through a nasty divorce. As she finds herself identifying more with her Jamaican heritage, her father pressures her to also embrace her Jewishness.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780525578239
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Harper is kidnapped from Washington, D.C., and brought to the fairy-tale kingdom of Emberfall, where a prince named Rhen has been cursed for over three centuries to relive the same year—in which he turns into a monster each time—and the curse won't be broken until he falls in love.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781681195087
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Dig
Five teenagers' disparate lives weave together, unveiling long-buried secrets within a complex shared history. King's surrealistic narrative confronts themes of white privilege and its dark legacies.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Michael L. Printz Award 2020
- ISBN: 9781101994931
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The Disasters
After Nax is kicked out of Ellis Station Academy, a terrorist group attacks the school, and he—along with three other students who wash out of the academy—is framed for it, forcing him to find out who was really behind the attack.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062657671
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The Downstairs Girl
In this masterful concoction of historical fiction that mirrors contemporary social issues, Jo Kuan is a Chinese American girl living in the periphery of Southern society in 1890. When she begins using a pseudonym to write a witty advice column, she discovers more about herself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781524740955
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Echo North
In this retelling of the Norwegian fairy-tale, “East of the Sun, West of the Moon,” a girl named Echo, disfigured from a childhood accident, makes a deal with a mysterious wolf to live with him for one year in an enchanted house in order to save her father.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781624147159
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
After his mother gets a new job as a professor at the University of Texas, Norris, a Black French Canadian who has lived in Montreal his whole life, has to adjust to high school in Austin, Texas.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, William C. Morris YA Debut Award 2020
- ISBN: 9780062824110
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Forward Me Back to You
After struggling with a violent sexual episode at her school where she was not supported, Kat moves, finds a new group of friends, and takes a trip to work with trafficked girls in India, where she finds the strength to help others while helping herself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780374304928
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The Fountains of Silence
Shining a light on the Spanish Civil War, Sepetys introduces Daniel, an 18-year-old American, and Ana, a native whose family has suffered under the Franco regime, whose romance takes center stage in this rich introduction to hidden history.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780399160318
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Full Disclosure
Simone Garcia-Hampton is HIV positive. After her secret gets out at school, she transfers, hoping to start over, but when she begins dating a boy and getting notes threatening to expose her, she must decide whether to keep running or face everyone head on.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781984829955
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Genesis Begins Again
Genesis struggles to accept herself as others call her names and her father's alcoholism leads to insecurities, but when a music teacher encourages her talent, the positive begins to outweigh the negative, allowing Genesis to throw out the list of things she hates about herself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, William C. Morris YA Debut Award 2020
- ISBN: 9781481465809
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Girls on the Verge
After learning she is pregnant from her first sexual encounter, Camille is forced to make a decision. When she runs out of options in her Texas hometown, she, Annabelle, and her disapproving best friend, Bea, set off on a road trip to get an abortion.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250151698
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The Good Luck Girls
Certain girls in Arketta are sold as children to work at welcome houses where, after being branded and educated, they become prostitutes on their sixteenth birthdays. Clementine's first encounter leads to murder—and an escape—but can she and her squad survive?- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250299703
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Her Royal Highness
After discovering her sort-of girlfriend kissing someone else, Millie decides to forego senior year at her Texas high school and attend a fancy boarding school. There, she's forced to room with an actual Scottish princess. Falling in love with her would be a terrible idea, though. Right?- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781524738266
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Heroine
After Mickey Catalan, a star athlete, is sidelined by a car crash, she relies on pain medicine to help her recover faster. When she discovers that it isn't enough, Mickey spirals out of control, and her need for relief leads her to lie, steal, and shoot up.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780062847195
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How Not to Ask a Boy to Prom
Nolan's sister decides to find him a boyfriend for prom, but when she forces him to attempt a “promposal” on his crush, things go sideways, and Bern, an unsuspecting ally, saves him. As the two fake their way to prom, they find that fake dating feels a lot like the real thing.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781626724013
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How to be Remy Cameron
Remy Cameron has been assigned labels. He is gay, he is Black, he is a brother, he is a friend. What happens if these labels don't feel right to him? What if they aren't enough? Through an introspective narrative, Remy finds himself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781945053801
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How to Make Friends with the Dark
Tiger Tolliver's last communication with her mother was an argument about an ugly dress. After her mother dies of an aneurysm, Tiger doesn't know who her father is or any relatives who can keep her. Facing overwhelming guilt and grief, she will have to “make friends with the dark.”- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781101934753
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I Love You So Mochi
Kimi's quest for self-discovery takes her to Japan, where during spring break she visits her estranged grandparents, falls in love, and finds her true, creative path, divergent from her mother's wishes.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781338302882
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I Wish You All the Best
After they come out as nonbinary, Ben's parents kick them out of the house, leading them to move in with their estranged sister. As Ben grapples with anxiety and depression, they navigate complicated family dynamics, moving to a new city, and falling in love for the first time- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781338306125
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The Infinite Noise
When Caleb's mood swings become too much for him, he starts therapy. There, he finds that he is an Atypical, a person with heightened abilities. After his ability draws him to Adam, he begins to feel an unexplained connection. Can Adam help Caleb control this superpower?- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250297518
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Internment
In America's not-so-distant future, Muslim citizens are forced into internment camps, including 17-year-old Layla and her parents. Once there, Layla, with the help of fellow internees and an unlikely alliance with a guard, leads a resistance movement inside the camp.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780316522694
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It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
A selection of #OwnVoices short stories about Jewish identities, from a variety of authors.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780525646167
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The Kingdom
Ana is a Fantasist—a human-android hybrid—engineered to bring pleasure to guests of the high-tech theme park the Kingdom. Designed for docility and no independent thought, Ana and her six Fantasist sisters shock the country as they begin going homicidal and suicidal.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250293855
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Last Bus to Everland
Brody's brother is an overachiever, his sister is a star, and he feels like a side character in his own life—until a cute boy named Nico introduces him to "Everland." Now Brody must decide if he would rather live in the real world or in a fantasy.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250149930
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The Light at the Bottom of the World
At the end of the twenty-first century, humans live beneath the water. Leyla McQueen gets picked to participate in an obstacle course with 99 other people, and if she wins, she can pick any prize—and free her father, who has been jailed on false charges.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781368036887
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Like a Love Story
Three teens—an Iranian youth hiding his sexuality for fear of death, an openly gay photographer, and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle—all find love, along with their voices, as activists in 1989 New York during the height of the AIDS crisis.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062839367
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Love from A to Z
Adam and Zayneb, two Muslim teens, meet on a flight to Qatar. The fact that they meet at all is both a marvel and an oddity. The fact that they keep meeting again? It might just be love.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781534442726
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Lovely War
It's 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. She's a shy and talented pianist; he's a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. When they fall in love, it's immediate and deep – and cut short when James is shipped off to the killing fields.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Teens' Top Ten 2020
- ISBN: 9780451469939
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The Lying Woods
Owen Foster lives a life of luxury at his boarding school—until it all comes crashing down in this slow-burn mystery. When he finds out that his father has been stealing his clients' money and has now vanished, Owen moves home to live among people from whom his father stole.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781368014786
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The Merciful Crow
Fie, who belongs to the lowest Crow caste of mercy killers and undertakers, finds herself on a quest with Jasimir the prince and Hawk warrior Tavin. On the way, they encounter ferocious magic and a plot to kill the king in this action-packed adventure fantasy.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781250191922
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Michigan vs. the Boys
How far are you willing to go for your sport? Michigan must figure out the answer to this question when her high school cuts the girls' hockey team. After deciding to try out for the boys' team, Michigan will have to endure more than she thought to play the game she loves.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781525301483
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The Music of What Happens
A coming-of-age story about gay teens Max and Jordan, who find themselves manning a food truck. Both have their struggles but learn a lot about themselves and life through “the music of what happens.”- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781338215502
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The Never Tilting World
Twin goddesses separated on a planet broken into halves—never-ending day and never-ending night—go on their own journeys to find out what really happened when their world was cracked open.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062821799
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On the Come Up
Bri, an aspiring rapper who wants to step out of the shadow of her famous but dead father, helps her family survive after her mother loses her job.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062498564
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Patron Saints of Nothing
Jay is coasting out his senior year, about to enjoy Spring Break, and plans to start college in the Fall. Learning of his cousin's death in the Philippines, his priorities are shaken. He heads to the Philippines to find answers about his cousin and President Duterte's war on drugs.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780525554912
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Pet
Pet lives in a world without monsters, or so she thinks. After a monster shows itself to her, she must work to uncover the secrets her world has been hiding and to protect people she loves.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780525647072
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Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee
Delia and Josie run a late-night horror show on the local cable station, but with different reasons for running the show, their friendship clearly takes precedence. As the next chapter in their lives approaches, humorous and serious hijinks ensue.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781524720209
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The Revolution of Birdie Randolph
Chicago teenager Birdie Randolph studies hard and follows her parents' rules, at least until she meets Booker. Now she's sneaking out of the house and lying to her parents. With a secret boyfriend, and the arrival of a mysterious aunt bearing devastating family secrets, Birdie's summer promises to be revolutionary.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9780316448567
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Ship of Smoke and Steel
Isoka, a street thief pressured by a government spy with unbreakable leverage, is sent to steal the ghost ship Soliton, a world in itself with unexplainable magic and politics, about which very little is known. Alliances must be formed, just for survival.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780765397249
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Sick Kids in Love
Isabel has a long list of reasons why she doesn't date, including her chronic illness, rheumatoid arthritis. But when she meets another sick kid while getting her monthly infusion, she finds she may be willing to bend—or break—her one rule.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781640637320
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SLAY
Kiera is a 17-year-old Black gamer who, in response to a gaming industry that often excludes marginalized individuals, built an RPG that celebrates all things "black excellence.” Her identity is a secret in the real world, until a troll infiltrates the game to destroy it.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781534445420