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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.