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Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 1
Language
English
Description
"After fourteen-year-old Eden is raped by her brother's best friend, she knows she'll never be the way she used to be"--
3) Speak
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eden and Josh never had a fair shot at a healthy relationship. When they dated in high school, they each had their own problems getting in the way of the deep connection they felt toward one another. Unbeknownst to Josh, Eden was carrying the burden of a devastating sexual assault, while Josh was dealing with his own private struggle of having an alcoholic father. Months after Eden and two other girls publicly accuse their rapist, Eden is starting...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
9) Any second
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped, abused, and brainwashed for five years, Elian is stopped in his mission to bomb a mall by Maya, who has crippling anxiety, and neither one will ever be the same again.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Two teenaged boys with very different lives find that they share a common bond--fathers they have never met who left when they were small boys--and in spite of their differences, they become close when they each need someone who understands.
14) Draw the dark
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
15) Girl in pieces
Author
Language
English
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Description
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ellen's stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother's barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We're a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. Welcome to America is a scintillating portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child in the throes of trauma, a family on the brink of implosion,...
17) Time bomb
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--
18) I will save you
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
1st Ember ed.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love"--
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