Fiction
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A Certain Slant of Light
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| Author: |
Laura Whitcomb |
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After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts. |
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A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
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| Author: |
Emily Horner |
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As she tries to sort out her feelings of love, seventeen-year-old Cass, a spunky math genius with an introverted streak, finds a way to memorialize her dead best friend. |
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| Title: |
Along for the Ride
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| Author: |
Sarah Dessen |
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When Auden goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having fun new experiences. |
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Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
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| Author: |
Morgan Matson |
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Told in a loose scrapbook style, this story follows the journey of Amy Curry as she relocates to Connecticut from California. Attempting to recover from the tragic death of her father, the last thing she expects is fall for her childhood friend. |
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| Title: |
Anna and the French Kiss
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| Author: |
Stephanie Perkins |
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When Anna's father sends her to an American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets a boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more. |
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| Title: |
Chopsticks
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| Author: |
Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral |
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Mentally faltering teenage piano prodigy, Glory, disappears after what looks like a passionate affair with the new neighbor boy, as told through photos, IM sessions, and other ephemera. |
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| Title: |
Climbing the Stairs
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| Author: |
Padma Venkatraman |
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Fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of going to college, but that fantasy is destroyed when her father is injured. Vidya has to move into her grandfathers traditional house, where women are supposed to get married, not educated. |
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| Title: |
Crazy Beautiful
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| Author: |
Lauren Baratz-Logsted |
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A teenage boy, whose hands were amputated in an explosion, and a girl, whose mother has recently died, form a connection when they meet on their first day as new students. |
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| Title: |
Flipped
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| Author: |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
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Juli Baker drives Bryce crazy for six years with her schoolgirl crush, but in eighth grade, just as he starts to notice her, she seems to lose interest |
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| Title: |
Impossible: a Novel
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| Author: |
Nancy Werlin |
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Discovering that the women of her family have been cursed for centuries upon their seventeenth birthday, Lucy decides to tackle the impossible by completing the three dangerous tasks necessary to break free from the spell and rid her family of its madness once and for all. |
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| Title: |
Jane
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| Author: |
April Lindner |
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In this contemporary retelling of "Jane Eyre," an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past. |
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Keeping the Castle: A Tale of Romance, Riches, and Real Estate
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| Author: |
Patrice Kindl |
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Seventeen-year-old Althea knows she needs to make a wealthy marriage to support her family, but when a potential suitor moves into the neighborhood she discovers that love might prove more important than keeping the castle. |
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| Title: |
Kimi Ni Todoke: From Me To You Vol. 1
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| Author: |
Karuho Shiina |
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Sawakos ghost-in-a-horror-film looks make her shy around her peers, especially Kazehaya, the most popular boy in her class. |
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| Title: |
Matched
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| Author: |
Allyson Braithwaite Condie |
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On her 17th birthday, the Society matches Cassia with her ideal husband-to-be. The Society never makes mistakes, so why did her friend Ky mistakenly appear on her match disk instead of her best friend, Xander? |
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| Title: |
Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist
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| Author: |
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan |
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Nick meets Norah for the first time when he asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes (to make an ex jealous). The rest of the evening passes in a blur of music-infused romantic misadventures. |
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| Title: |
North of Beautiful
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| Author: |
Justina Chen Headley |
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Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her new Goth friend, Jacob. |
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| Title: |
Perfect Chemistry
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| Author: |
Simone Elkeles |
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When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and gang member, Alex Fuentes, from the other side of town, develop a relationship, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others. |
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| Title: |
Played
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| Author: |
Dana Davidson |
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When one of Ian's boys dares him to sleep with plain-faced, nobody Kylie Winship, he thinks it will be a snap. If he succeeds, he'll be down with the most popular crew in his school. |
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| Title: |
Pride and Prejudice
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| Author: |
Jane Austen |
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Intrigue, misunderstandings and proper manners abound as Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy engage in a lively courtship that reveals the hypocrisy and comedy of polite society in eighteenth century England. |
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| Title: |
Princess of the Midnight Ball
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| Author: |
Jessica Day George |
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A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse. |
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| Title: |
Shiver
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| Author: |
Maggie Stiefvater |
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In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. |
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| Title: |
The Fault in Our Stars
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| Author: |
John Green |
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Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at a cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. |
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| Title: |
The Sky is Everywhere
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| Author: |
Jandy Nelson |
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In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician. |
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| Title: |
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
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| Author: |
Jennifer E. Smith |
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When Hadley misses her flight to London to attend her dads second wedding, she runs into Oliver, a charming British college student, with whom she falls in love during their ten hour flight together from New York to London. |
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| Title: |
The Story of Us
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| Author: |
Deb Calleti |
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Crickets mother is finally marrying a decent guy, but as her family gets ready for the wedding at an inn on the Washington Coast, Cricket is distracted by sorting out her feelings for her ex-boyfriend, the innkeepers son and making plans for her future. |
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| Title: |
Tutored
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| Author: |
Allison Whittenberg |
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Wendy, a black girl growing up in a white Philadelphia suburb, upsets her overprotective class-conscious father when she falls for Hakiam, a foster kid from the hood, who she meets while tutoring at a community center. |
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| Title: |
Wait for Me
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| Author: |
An Na |
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When her mother hires Ysrael, a Mexican immigrant, to work in their dry cleaning store, Mina finally finds someone she can be herself with as she continues to hide her true grades from her Korean-American mother and steals money from their store till to save for an apartment. |
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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| Author: |
John Green and David Levithan |
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Meet Tiny Cooper, flamboyant, loveable, and anything but tiny who is always looking for the boy of his dreams. Disillusioned with his own affairs he matches his best friend Will Grayson up with a great girl. However, while producing his musical autobiography, he meets another lonely boy who he falls for. |
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