Reality Boy
A.S. King
An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania, who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell.
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Fat Angie
E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Angie overeats to cope with the taunts of the ultra-mean girls, her attempted suicide in front of a packed gym, and the status of her captured war-hero sister, until KC Romance comes to town and sees Angie for who she really is.
Dr. Bird’s Advice For Sad Poets
Evan Roskos
A sixteen-year-old boy wrestling with depression and anxiety tries to cope by writing poems, reciting Walt Whitman, hugging trees, and figuring out why his sister has been kicked out of the house.
The Lightning Dreamer
Margarita Engle
In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba.
Darius & Twig
Walter Dean Myers
Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem.
Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass
Meg Medina
Informed that a bully she does not know is determined to beat her up, Latin American teen Piddy Sanchez struggles to learn more about the father she has never met, until the bully’s gang forces her to confront more difficult challenges.
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Royal Ranger
John Flanagan
Taking place at least 16 years after the original 10 volumes of the Ranger’s Apprentice series, this sequel sees Will training 15-year-old Maddie, the first girl to become a ranger’s apprentice.
No One Else Can Have You
Kathleen Hale
As sixteen-year-old Kippy of Friendship, Wisconsin, reads her best friend Ruth’s diary, she is shocked at what she learns and spurred to solve Ruth’s murder, certain that the boy who was arrested is innocent.
Independent Study
Joelle Charbonneau
In the second book of The Testing series, the government has wiped Cia’s memory clear of the grueling and deadly initiation into higher learning that she experienced; and though ignorance is bliss, now Cia has to discern whether her so-called friends are trusted allies or traitors.
Rookie Yearbook Two
Tavi Gevinson
A collection of articles, interviews, photo editorials, and illustrations from the highly praised online magazine RookieMag.com.