All We Can Do is Wait by Richard Lawson In the hours after a bridge collapse rocks their city, four teens are forced to face their pasts and the prospect of very different futures as they wait at Boston General Hospital for news of their loved ones.
American Panda by Gloria Chao A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents’ expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths–that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she […]
Last to Let Go by Amber Smith When her mother is arrested for killing Brooke’s abusive father, Brooke must confront the shadow of her family’s violence and dysfunction.
Winner Take All by Laurie Devore Attracted to Jackson by their rivalry to be the top student at their private high school, Nell falls into an intense relationship with him, but victory in their new private game may have a higher cost than she anticipates.
Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis Seventeen-year-old Evan struggles to deal with his mother’s abuse and his new feelings for his friend Henry.
This is Not a Love Letter by Kim Purcell Jessie and Chris are taking a one-week break to get some perspective before graduation and the big, scary decisions about their future. Then, Chris vanishes; the police think he’s run away. He was about to head off to college on a full-ride baseball scholarship. And he disappeared on a run along […]
You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone by Rachel Lynn Solomon Eighteen-year-old twins Adina, a viola prodigy, and Tovah, a future surgeon, find their relationship tested when they learn that one of them will develop Huntington’s, the degenerative disease ravaging their mother.
A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard Steffi doesn’t talk. Rhys can’t hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn’t always a lightning strike. Sometimes it’s the rumbling roll of thunder … Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life – she’s been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new […]
Don’t Cosplay with My Heart by Cecil Castellucci Edan Kupferman’s life is coming apart: her father is being “sequestered” because the company he works for in Hollywood is in legal trouble, her best friend is in Japan for the summer, and the boy she has a crush on is just plain confusing, so she escapes into the world of comics, […]
Here, There, Everywhere by Julia Durango Zeus would rather be anywhere than here–Buffalo Falls, the tiny town his family moved to at the end of the school year. Having left all his friends back in Chicago, and with nothing to look forward to except helping out at his mother’s cafe and biking around town with his weird little brother, Zeus […]
