Coming of Age - Teens Ficton

"I used to find the phrase 'my past haunts me' a bit dramatic. A little over the top, especially for mundanities.But now, my past is sitting by my window. Haunting me.Literally."Celia Greene watched Bennet March die.It's not something she'll sugarcoat, and it certainly isn't...

Love is a powerful emotion. It can defeat hate. To love so deeply to give your life is biblical. True love can be so strong that it reaches from the grave to speak to us.Spirit Keeper 2: "Exoneration" is Mary Diggs' second installment of...

This is an LGBTQ+ apocalyptic coming of age. A boy is trying to help his brother escape the same treatment at the hands of his father he did, so with a friend, they make a daring escape. But the darkness of their homes is...

Mina's summer is shaping up well: she's got her dream job and, with the way her new coworker is flirting, maybe a new girlfriend as well. The lingerie store where they both work might threaten to ruin it all though. Centering around first love,...

"A lyrical and moving debut...A magical book that feels like your favorite song playing on the radio." -- Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet ApartA queer YA Mamma Mia! with a dash of Maureen Johnson, The Last Love Song...

For fans of Becky Albertalli and Kelly Quindlen, We Got the Beat is the perfect queer friends-to-enemies-to-lovers tale. With romance, fat representation, and a meaningful exploration on how past hurts can affect our future, Jenna Miller's novel is sure to deliver all the feels....

Twelve-year-old Sam Ingram is in love with the boy across the street. The six blocks between home and school she walks with Tobias Howard are the best part of her day.But Sam's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident puts both of...

Caroline thought her big high school challenges were maintaining grades and a social life. Did she look fat in that outfit? Should she break up with her boyfriend? Did she belong in honors English? Questions hard enough and simple enough. That was before senior...

He calls it fate. She calls it blackmail.Rory has a secret: she's the vandal who paints graffiti lions all over her small town. If her policeman dad knew, he'd probably disown her. So when Hayes, a former screw-up on the path to recovery, catches...

As children, sisters Jane and Lily were inseparable. But as Lily grew up, older sister Jane wanted to forever stay in the makebelieve worlds they had created when they were young. For Jane, the line between fantasy and reality had always been blurred. Then...

Eleventh-grader Jacob Wasserman is just trying to get by. Under the radar, he spends his weekends at home by himself, leaning on TV and video games to distract himself from the weight-- these days we would call it depression-- inside him. But he's secretly...

From the author of The Long Run comes another unflinchingly raw and boldly hilarious novel about an unlikely group of teens coming together to exact revenge on the person who wronged them.All's fair in love and revenge...Phil Reyno is a "troublemaker." With a punk...

Nova's job is to harvest dream threads from unaware humans to sustain her sunless planet against a malicious parasite. But on one particular night, she enters the dream of a boy who knows her-who has been dreaming of her for a long time. And...

Sixteen-year-old Rae's life is a disaster. Her mom is a recovering alcoholic, her best friend is a real-life Hollywood mean-girl, and her dad recently ditched her for his thirtysomething girlfriend. Is it any surprise she's perpetually one crisis away from an anxiety attack? Everything...

Barbara's starting over.She's happy to leave high school behind, but doesn't know how she'll make new friends when her bandmates leave town for college. She has no plans for the future beyond driving school, a part-time summer job, and community college in the fall....

Warning!Don't get trapped!Warnings are included with almost every device, tool, toy, food, and package in our world today. We hardly ever read them.Some are silly but we should never forget that real dangers doexist. Many of these dangers have no warning on them. Theyare...

From the author of Counting Down with You and A Show for Two comes a new YA contemporary about a girl who accidentally sabotages an up-and-coming local band and falls for the guitarist while secretly trying to make up for her mistake.Liana Sarkar lives...

"Family secrets, broken friendships, spirit possession, and natural magic. This book will haunt you until the very end and long after you finish." - Rachel Menard, award-winning author of Game of Strength and Storm & Clash of Fate and Fury"Neilson's sophomore novel is a...

When all hope is lost, home is no longer just a place to be, but a place to belong...Esmari has made the choice to walk away from everything. Her friends, mentors, and the life she had just started to understand. In doing so, she...

With echoes of Marieke Nijkamp and Jason Reynolds, acclaimed author Marie Myung-Ok Lee's stunning YA homage to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men tells the tragic story of a Korean American teen who fights to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile...

One brave-hearted boy and one starry-eyed girl dare against all odds to be friends. But their friendship must be lived in whispers and shadows.At a young age, Samuri discovers the spritely Jewel just beyond his yard. Though he knows nothing of friendship or the...

The hilarious and heartening story of a teen girl who makes several astonishingly terrible decisions in an effort to find the support she needs. A spectacular YA novel from a long-time teacher and debut author, perfect for fans of coming-of-age stories like Radio Silence...

Growing up in a lower-class bakery in the heart of Lumierna, the capital of the kingdom Isles of Wyvern, Stirling Bakere, a 19-year-old boy, refuses to accept the standards of the oppressive society. At the age of ten, every child is tattooed an insignia...

Shadows linger where light is obstructed, and truth is veiled. Evil is an untreated disease in the once beautiful realm of Alandria.Kaeleigh is faced with a revelation that she must reconcile. She will decide if discovering the truth is worth the unknown consequences to...

A dying realm.The ancient evil of the Droch-Sh仡l has been unleashed. The Orchids have been silenced... but for how long?Daegan, elite of the Ferrishyn warrior tribe of Faeries, is charged with a mission to find the Sol-lumieth, a mysterious new power that could change...

Being one of King Arthur's knights involved far more running for your life than Finn could have imagined. Reading the book was never this invigorating ... or painful. But reading was easy for Finn. It was falling into his favorite King Arthur book that...

now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, and Milk) It was an accident. He didn't mean to kill the security guard with his skateboard--it was self-defense. But there's no one to back up his...

The Adventures of Jeremiah Pickleworth is about an eleven-year-old boy who discovers he has been blessed with a special gift. Follow his journey throughout his life as he discovers his powers and the characters he meets along the way. Fasten your seatbelt as Jeremiah...

High school seniors Cin and Henri, seemingly worlds apart, find themselves drawn together by a twist of fate. Meet Cin, a half-Japanese rock musician whose enigmatic aura hides a world of secrets. Tattoos, long hair, piercings, and pet snakes make him the enigma of...

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen AgeA California Book Award Winner for Juvenile LiteratureAn ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young AdultsA Booklist Top Ten Youth Romance Clara Wilson and Amos MacKenzie are finding their lives turned upside down: by each...

"A lyrical and moving debut...A magical book that feels like your favorite song playing on the radio." -- Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet ApartA queer YA Mamma Mia! with a dash of Maureen Johnson, The Last Love Song...

When 17-year-old June wakes up alone and confused on a hill after-well, she can't really remember-she quickly finds herself unable to leave. While exploring the boundaries of her new reality, people from her life arrive, reintroducing June to memories she's forgotten. When it becomes...

It's the summer of 1926 when eleven-year-old Shelby Laird first visits his grandparents in the small Virginia town of Claptrapia. An old castle there sparks his imagination, but it is the mansion's exotic inhabitants who surprise him. All is not well with the old...

The Second Book in the Greysons of Grimoire series sends our heroes into their most dangerous trials yet Chelsea and Delilah have successfully brought Isabelle back to her home: The Library of Solitude. But the little girl's homecoming is far from a happy one....

Everyone deserves a place to feel welcome and safe-it's common sense. Perry, Gael, Dawson, Marina, and Valentina fight for the creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance club.Author: Jamie ToddISBN-10: 1642611425ISBN-13: 9781642611427Publisher: Storyshares, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2022Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d

Angela just wants to make her Ma happy, but it's an impossible task. Everything she does, everything she says, is wrong. Will she snap under the pressure and expectations or find a way to grow from the chaos?Author: Caroline GeeISBN-10: 1642614637ISBN-13: 9781642614633Publisher: Storyshares, LLCLanguage:...

Huda and Asif have grown up together among the rivers and deserts of Mosul. When they find their friendship tested by segregation, discrimination, and societal hierarches, they are not longer able to recognize one another.Author: Kaitlyn O'MalleyISBN-10: 1642612022ISBN-13: 9781642612028Publisher: Storyshares, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2022Pages: 34Format:...

Is this really happening? Is Jana moving AGAIN? Every time she gets used to a place and really starts to like it and make new friends, her mom tells her it's time to leave again. Jana would do anything to stay, but her mom...

On Celebration Day Emma Pureheart and her best friend Rina join students all across Salvoa in choosing a Career Path to study. Emma strives for a path where she can help people, and pushed her evaluations hard to get choices that would present those...

Every shy ninth-grader has dreams-to fit in, to talk to their crush, maybe even to become popular. For Ana, those dreams are overshadowed by a nightmare when her only friend, Heloise, falls into a coma after a suspicious bus accident. Her world crumbles. School...

If you can't trust your parents, who can you trust? Cameron and Lewis Larsen are identical twins living normal, suburban lives ... until their mom and dad kill two uninvited guests at a neighborhood barbecue and then disappear. Following cryptic instructions their parents left...

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that's "a gem of a book" (Booklist, starred review) "perfect for fans of Outlander and Bridgerton" (Kirkus Reviews). What if...

Follow Dani's journey as it takes her from a house built over an old graveyard to a circus by the glittering sea. A standalone novel of a young woman's friendships, losses, and bond with a sparkling man on the flying trapeze.In a future where...

Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages. Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's tough, resourceful,...

Devaney Diamond and Chase Mackenzie's relationship has been like a Taylor Swift song. Best friends in elementary school. First loves in high school. Friends with benefits while Dani was away at college.But deep down, they have always loved each other. Have always been drawn...

The year is 2086. The Mars Station, a cold and colorless interior city of ten thousand on the Red Planet is ruled by a ruthless Governor bent on creating a future dedicated solely to scientific advancement. The population includes several hundred children, all of...

The chaos of life seemed too much for the illusionist Tenn Peller. Everyone sees him as a trickster and a con artist, and when he finally fulfills his teacher's dying wish, his past creates a misunderstanding that causes everyone to see him as a...

In On a Rooftop in Beijing, Sloane finds her heart beating for more than just swimming. It is pounding to be with a guy who is off limits and whose very existence in her life could be dangerous.Jae Sung is anything but just a...

Two years ago, Jayde Holloway discovered she had the power to erase memories by accidentally wiping the memories of her best friend Jenny at the end of their senior year. Now, shut off from the world, Jayde exists solely for her role as the...

Biology Lessons is a heartfelt and profound contemporary young adult novel about the strength and importance of female friendship in a time when bodily autonomy is outlawed, from acclaimed author Melissa Kantor. Grace Williams has her future all mapped out. A high school senior...