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1) Shooter
Author
Language
English
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Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
2) Boy toy
Author
Language
English
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Description
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.
3) Beetle Boy
Author
Language
English
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Description
Terrible memories resurface when Charlie's girlfriend asks questions about his childhood.
4) America
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.
5) Hate list
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Series
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
Author
Series
If I stay volume 2
Language
English
Description
It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit...
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
New to the small town of Lawton, Alabama, Maggie Carlton begins to help Lawton High quarterback West Ashby open up about his grief as well as finally beginning to confront her own.
Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 1
Language
English
Description
"After fourteen-year-old Eden is raped by her brother's best friend, she knows she'll never be the way she used to be"--
10) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"--
12) Belzhar: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief and guilt in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they...
14) Take me there
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.
15) Going under
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Alternating passages that draw on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus juxtapose the differing viewpoints of a teenaged girl and her older brother as she tries to prevent a manipulative psychotherapist from using her journal as material in a book.
16) After the woods
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of the year anniversary of the Shiverton Abduction, two former best friends grapple with the consequences of that event"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Seniors Rosaline Caplet and Rob Monteg, neighbors and best friends, have finally become a couple at their Southern California high school, but when Rosie's estranged cousin Juliet moves back into town and pursues Rob in an unstable, needy, and vindictive manner, Rosie starts to worry not just about Rob's emotions, but about his very life.