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21) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1030L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in flashbacks, dark fairytales, and present-day prose, fourteen-year-old Emma, whose best friend has accused her father of heinous crimes, must testify against her friend's word, and her carefully constructed "truths" about what she may or may not have witnessed between father and friend start to crumble.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Managing the challenges of his fractured family by taking Adderall, sneaking drinks, and confiding in an abusive priest, Aidan finds support from new friends including a crush, a wild girl, and a swim-team captain with his own secrets.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside. Ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
25) A drop of venom
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
393 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters--she's been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King's army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom's famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe--but you would be wrong. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King's most...
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college--until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.
28) Seton girls
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seton Academic High is a prep school obsessed with its football team and their thirteen-year conference win streak. The players always say they'd never have that streak without Seton's girls, but exactly Seton girls do to make them so valuable no one ever really says. The team's quarterback, the younger brother of the Seton star who started the streak, wants more than regular season glory. He wants a state championship before his successor, Seton's...
29) Off the record
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A teen journalist uncovers the #metoo scandal of the decade: a bigshot Hollywood director is taking advantage of cast members.
Ever since seventeen-year-old Josie Wright can remember, writing has been her identity, the thing that grounds her when everything else is a garbage fire. So when she wins a contest to write a celebrity profile for Deep Focus magazine, she's equal parts excited and scared, but also ready. She's got this. Soon Josie is jetting...
30) Dear Medusa
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the...
31) You too?
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
303 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A timely and heartfelt collection of essays inspired by the #MeToo movement, edited by acclaimed author Janet Gurtler. Featuring Beth Revis, Mackenzi Lee, Ellen Hopkins, Saundra Mitchell, Jennifer Brown, Cheryl Rainfield and many more. When #MeToo went viral, Janet Gurtler was among the millions of people who began to reflect on her past experiences. Things she had reluctantly accepted--male classmates groping her at recess, harassment at work--came...
32) Greta
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Greta Goodwin's life is changing. On top of moving to a new neighborhood far away from her best friend, Lotti, she's also starting middle school. Greta isn't totally ready for boys, bras, and the chaotic cafeteria. She still feels like a little kid compared to those female classmates who have suddenly matured over the summer. Girls who are now the talk of the school--unlike Greta, who would rather fly under the radar, especially after a bad haircut...
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Rani Patel, almost seventeen and living on remote Moloka'i island, is oppressed by the cultural norms of her Gujarati immigrant parents. But when Mark, an older man, draws her into new experiences, red flags abound.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
HL 530L
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After fifteen years of horrific abuse and neglect by her mother and her mother's boyfriends, Joy struggles to understand and accept a normal life with relatives, at school, and with a boyfriend.
35) Among the fallen
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the infamous Tothill prison, Orpha is haunted by recurring flashbacks of sexual abuse, neglect, exploitation, and the horrors of a Victorian workhouse, but she refuses to be crushed. Her heartbreaking yet inspiring story tells of the resilience and courage needed to make a new life for herself against all odds with the support of the amazing women of Urania cottage and the help of famous author Charles Dickens.