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Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
Author
Series
The perfectionists volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forging a friendship based on their mutual hatred of a philandering boy, five girls imagine a perfect way to kill him and must prove their innocence when he is killed in the exact manner they envisioned.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Celia, hurt by her parents' separation, the loss of her only friend, and a classmate's cruelty, has only her poetry for solace until newcomer Drake Berlin befriends her, comes out to her, and seeks her help in connecting with the boy he left behind.
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 4
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
10) Devil in Ohio
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Language
English
Description
Mae moves in with fifteen-year-old Jules' family and seems to be taking over Jules' life, but Mae's past in a nearby cult soon threatens them all
11) Empty
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Deeply depressed after her father cheated on and divorced her mother, seventeen-year-old Adele has gained over seventy pounds and is being bullied and abused at school--to the point of being raped and accused of being the aggressor.
12) Emory's gift
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the loss of her mother, high school junior Soledad finds herself struggling to balance classes and her new job in California to support her family in Tijuana, Mexico, in this thoughtful story about identity, immigration, and family"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Rainbow boys
Author
Series
Rainbow trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First media tie-in edition.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, she is surprised to find that they have a lot in common.
16) Radio silence
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A studious girl and a quiet, straight-A boy start a controversial podcast together that challenges their courage and forces them to confront issues in the form of backlash and censorship.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Juggling the pressures of college applications and friendships, neurotic overachiever Jules's plans for her senior year are thrown off track when she starts dating the new guy at school and finds herself at the center of a rivalry between her high school's newspaper and its just-launched TV news show"--
18) Rez ball
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
YA Genres: Contemporary Fiction (Realistic Fiction)
YA Reads: Books about Grief and Loss
YA Reads: Books by Indigenous Authors
YA Reads: Books about Grief and Loss
YA Reads: Books by Indigenous Authors
Description
When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up--not on the court, not in school and not in love.
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Lisa Yee) volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When the world's honey supply starts to drop and some of her old tech disappears, super student Bumblebee enlists her friends Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Poison Ivy, and Beast Boy to help her find out why"--
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