The Cat Came Back by Hilary Mullins
Hilary Mullins | The Cat Came Back | From Publishers Weekly
Set in 1980, Mullins’s first novel takes the form of a journal kept by 17-year-old Stephanie (Stevie) Roughgarden during he
YA Fiction (Young Adult)
Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lois-Ann Yamanaka | Name Me Nobody | Named after Emmylou Harris because her mother used to ‘do it’ to the Profile album, 14-year-old Emi-Lou Kaya feels like a nobody in her Hawaiian town:
I Kiss Girls by Gina Harris
Gina Harris | I Kiss Girls | Joanie’s got all of the problems of an almost seventeen year old girl. She’s trying to get her driver’s license, her mom and dad are pressuring her ab
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Ellen Wittlinger | Hard Love | John Galardi is a loner, unable to express his feelings except in the pages of his zine, ‘Bananafish.’ He finds inspiration in another zine, ‘Escape V
The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson | The Bermudez Triangle | ‘Their friendship went so far back, it bordered on the Biblical-in the beginning, there was Nina and Avery and Mel.’ So says high school senior Nina B
Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters | Keeping You A Secret | With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Hol
Trying Hard To Hear You by Sandra Scoppettone
Sandra Scoppettone | Trying Hard To Hear You | Sixteen-year-old Camilla Crawford tells about a crucial summer in which her close-knit theater group discovers that two of their members are gay.
It’s Our Prom by Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters | It’s Our Prom | Told in separate voices, Azure, who is a lesbian, and Luke, who is bisexual, help plan an inclusive senior prom while Luke is writing and producing a
Flick by Wendy Ann Kesselman
Wendy Ann Kesselman | Flick | A young adolescent is confused by the behavior of her schoolmate Felicity, on whom she has a passionate crush.
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Finding H.F. by Julia Watts
Julia Watts | Finding H.F. | Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt