Realistic Fiction

Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.

Price of Duty by Todd Strasser A young man, injured and home from the war, is lauded as a hero. But he doesn’t feel very heroic in the face of all that he witnessed. Hailed as a hero, twenty-year-old Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured physically and emotionally, unsure if he can return to active duty but uncomfortable with the alternative.

The Other Side of Lost by Jessi Kirby When she comes to the realization that she has no real friends despite her many followers on social media, Mari decides to hike the John Muir Trail using her cousin’s boots and trail diary.

The Fragile Ordinary by Samantha Young I am Comet Caldwell. And I sort of, kind of, absolutely hate my name. People expect extraordinary things from a girl named Comet. That she’ll be effortlessly cool and light up a room the way a comet blazes across the sky. But from the shyness that makes her book-character friends more appealing than real people to the parents whose indifference hurts more […]

Not the Girls You’re Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi A Muslim-American teen goes into denial mode about her role in an out-of-control party that occured during Ramadan, a situation that escalates until she incurs damage that is harder to repair, forcing her to come to terms with her true self.

Your Destination is on the Left by Lauren Spieller Offered her longed-for opportunity to leave the RV caravan and study art, seventeen-year-old Dessa Rhodes questions whether she is ready to leave her family, the open road, and the boy she loves.

Running Full Tilt by Michael Currinder Sixteen-year-old Leo Coughlin’s life is increasingly stressful because his autistic older brother Caleb’s behavior is becoming more bizarre and even violent, and their parents’ marriage is falling apart–but Leo finds an escape in long distance running, and in two new friends: Curtis, himself a potential state champion who teaches him the strategy of running, and Mary, […]

Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal that she is pregnant by rape and then, turned out by relatives, must find a way to survive on her own in Nassau.

The Museum of Us by Tara Wilson Redd Sixteen-year-old Sadie is lucky to survive an accident, but it changes her world forever when it reveals her secret life and the mysterious, thrilling boy at the center of it.

Fat Girl on a Plane by Kelly Devos High school senior Cookie Vonn’s post graduation dreams include getting out of Phoenix, attending Parsons and becoming the next great fashion designer. But in the world of fashion, being fat is a cardinal sin. It doesn’t help that she’s constantly compared to her supermodel mother and named after a dessert. Thanks to her job at a fashion blog, Cookie scores a trip […]