YA Fiction (Young Adult)
What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
Carol Plum-Ucci | What Happened to Lani Garver | Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd
What Are Ya? by Jenny Pausacker
Jenny Pausacker | What Are Ya? | Leith and Barbara have been close friends since childhood, but now, at 16, they are discovering a new world an adult world in which difficult choice
Define ‘Normal’ by Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters | Define ‘Normal’ | This thoughtful, wry story is about two girls–a ‘punk’ and a ‘priss’–who find themselves facing each other in a peer-counseling program and discover
Sugar Rush by Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill | Sugar Rush | Fifteen-year-old Kim is horrified when her dad tells her she’s got to leave her posh private school and go to infamous Ravendene Comprehensive, ‘the s
Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters | Between Mom and Jo | Jo promised Nick they’d always be together. So did Mom. When you’re a stupid little kid you believe what your parents tell you. You want to believe th
Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko
Bonnie Shimko | Letters in the Attic | Lizzy McCann is a feisty 12 year old who lives with her mother and father in a fleabag hotel. A divorce leads to mother and daughter moving to upstate
Gravity by Leanne Lieberman
Leanne Lieberman | Gravity | Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties. Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she
In Thrall by Jane DeLynn
Jane DeLynn | In Thrall | So the sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter, and they embark on one of the funniest– and saddest– love af
Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson | Bermudez Triangle | Lifelong best friends Nina Bermudez, Avery Dekker, and Melanie Forrest face their first separation the summer before their senior year when Nina atten