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  • Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

    Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off...
  • The Words We Keep by Erin Stewart

    The Words We Keep by Erin Stewart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alice hurting herself. Ever since then, Lily has been desperately trying to keep things together, for herself and for her family. But now Alice is coming home from her treatment program and it is becoming harder for Lily to ignore all of the feelings she's been trying to outrun...
  • Night Road by Kristin Hannah

    Night Road by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone’s needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable...
  • Sabtu Bersama Bapak by Adhitya Mulya

    Sabtu Bersama Bapak by Adhitya Mulya

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Hai, Satya! Hai, Cakra!” Sang Bapak melambaikan tangan. “Ini Bapak. Iya, benar kok, ini Bapak. Bapak cuma pindah ke tempat lain. Gak sakit. Alhamdulillah, berkat doa Satya dan Cakra. … Mungkin Bapak tidak dapat duduk dan bermain di samping kalian. Tapi, Bapak tetap ingin kalian tumbuh dengan Bapak di samping kalian. Ingin tetap dapat bercerita kepada kalian...
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  • Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller

    Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Escape to the Gulf Coast of Florida with Georgia Carpenter as she gets a second chance at life, love, and happiness. In the middle of an awful divorce, fifty-three-year-old Georgia Carpenter finds herself out of luck, time, and money. Then her phone rings with the news that her great aunt has died and left her a cottage in the Gulf Coast town of Blackbird Beach...
  • Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne

    Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    All Evie wants is to be normal. She’s almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as the girl-who-went-crazy. She’s even going to parties and making friends. There’s only one thing left to tick off her list…But relationships are messy – especially relationships with teenage guys. They can make any girl feel like they’re going mad...
  • The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle

    The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New town, new school, new friends. It was difficult for Ginny at first, but her senior year is finally starting to feel kind of normal. That is, until she sees him—the beautiful mystery in her English class. He has never spoken a word to anyone. He moves through each day at school without making eye contact. His name is Smitty Tibbs, but everyone calls him the Alien...
  • Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

    Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A William C. Morris Award Finalist A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens of 2017 A Junior Library Guild Selection “An empowering novel that will speak to many mixed-race teens.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Dazzling.” —Bustle “One of the most compelling reads of the year.” —Paste Magazine “This book is a gem...
  • The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati

    The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Catherine Pulaski knows Zero is coming for her. Zero, the devastating depression born of Catherine’s bipolar disorder, almost triumphed once; that was her first suicide attempt.Being bipolar is forever. It never goes away. The med du jour might work right now, but Zero will be back for her. It’s only a matter of time...
  • How to Disappear by Sharon Huss Roat

    How to Disappear by Sharon Huss Roat

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Vicky Decker has perfected the art of hiding in plain sight, quietly navigating the halls of her high school undetected except by her best (and only) friend, Jenna. But when Jenna moves away, Vicky’s isolation becomes unbearable.So she decides to invent a social life by Photoshopping herself into other people’s pictures, posting them on Instagram under the screen name Vicurious...
  • It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

    It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life--which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job--Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy...
  • All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

    All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning! 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...
  • Christina by Leanne Davis

    Christina by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My entire life I’ve lived with shadows lurking behind what otherwise appears like the perfect family. My mother often disappears into her bedroom for days at a time because her life becomes too much to deal with. I never understood it. I know there are family secrets. I hear the whispers and innuendos. But no one wants me to know the truth. The thing is: I’m not a little girl anymore...
  • The Last Goodbye by Kay Lyons

    The Last Goodbye by Kay Lyons

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    SOMETIMES THE PAIN OF LIFE BRINGS A NEW BEGINNING...Widower Dominic Dunn isn’t sure what to think of his wife’s pre-planned trip for him a year after her death. It’s her effort to force him from his work desk to the coast and the peacefulness she’d found at the Carolina Cove Inn...
  • Hunger for Life by Andy Marr

    Hunger for Life by Andy Marr

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the day of his graduation, James says goodbye to the future and moves back to his parents’ house in Myreton, the sleepy village of his childhood. He’s not happy, but the thought of continuing his life anywhere else seems unthinkable while his sister, Emma, continues to suffer with the illness that’s plagued her since she was a child...
  • Stronger Than You Know by Jolene Perry

    Stronger Than You Know by Jolene Perry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After police intervention, fifteen-year-old Joy has finally escaped the trailer where she once lived with her mother and survived years of confinement and abuse. Now living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in a comfortable house, she’s sure she’ll never belong. Wracked by panic attacks, afraid to talk to anyone at her new school, Joy’s got a whole list of reasons why she’s crazy...
  • Heartsong Cottage by Emily March

    Heartsong Cottage by Emily March

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Daniel Garrett is no stranger to heartache or tragedy. Once a successful detective, his world fell apart with his son's murder and his wife's suicide. Leaving the police force, Daniel devotes his life to finding missing children, but when a case goes sour on the anniversary of his personal tragedy, he returns to Eternity Springs hoping for some of the town's fabled healing...
  • All Our Broken Pieces by L.D. Crichton

    All Our Broken Pieces by L.D. Crichton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "You can’t keep two people who are meant to be together apart for long...”Lennon Davis doesn’t believe in much, but she does believe in the security of the number five. If she flicks the bedroom light switch five times, maybe her new L.A. school won’t suck. But that doesn’t feel right, so she flicks the switch again. And again...
  • Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes

    Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Maguire is bad luck.No matter how many charms she buys off the internet or good luck rituals she performs each morning, horrible things happen when Maguire is around. Like that time the roller coaster jumped off its tracks. Or the time the house next door caught on fire. Or that time her brother, father, and uncle were all killed in a car crash—and Maguire walked away with barely a scratch...
  • Letting Ana Go by Anonymous

    Letting Ana Go by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction.She was a good girl from a good family, with everything she could want or need. But below the surface, she felt like she could never be good enough. Like she could never live up to the expectations that surrounded her. Like she couldn’t do anything to make a change...
  • Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton

    Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy). An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world...
  • The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

    The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    There's death all around us.We just don't pay attention.Until we do.The last time Lex was happy, it was before. When she had a family that was whole. A boyfriend she loved. Friends who didn't look at her like she might break down at any moment.Now she's just the girl whose brother killed himself. And it feels like that's all she'll ever be...
  • The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah

    The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always “the princess” of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High School. College. Marriage. Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didn’t work out that way for Angie...
  • The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us...Their rise was meteoric.Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.But on one Hollywood evening in 1993, they were on the world’s biggest stage, accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.That night was the beginning of their careers...
  • I Will Save You by Matt de la Peña

    I Will Save You by Matt de la Peña

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there’s nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn’t belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay.   Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff...
  • What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard

    What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A searing yet ultimately uplifting young adult novel about a teenage girl's recovery from anorexia.Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has honed a dangerous skill: starving herself. Even when her parents send her to a treatment center, she can't stop. Then she begins receiving packages from someone she doesn't know...
  • Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall

    Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Norah has agoraphobia and OCD. When groceries are left on the porch, she can't step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He's sweet and funny, and he just caught her fishing for groceries. Because of course he did. Norah can't leave the house, but can she let someone in? As their friendship grows deeper, Norah realizes Luke deserves a normal girl...
  • The Beach Trees by Karen White

    The Beach Trees by Karen White

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of After the Rain, Sea Change, and The Color of Light...From the time she was twelve, Julie Holt knew what a random tragedy can do to a family. At that tender age, her little sister disappeared-never to be found. It was a loss that slowly eroded the family bonds she once relied on...
  • Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

    Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A heart-wrenching novel about a sixteen-year-old girl trapped in an abusive relationship—and the path she takes to freedom and happiness, from award-winning author Heather Demetrios.“Like Speak, it is one of those rare books that can have a real, lasting impact on readers, and can start important conversations.” —Adi Alsaid, author of Let’s Get Lost and Never Always SometimesGrace wants out...
  • Lucy in the Sky by Anonymous

    Lucy in the Sky by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal.The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything...
  • Underwater by Marisa Reichardt

    Underwater by Marisa Reichardt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In order to move on after a traumatic experience, Morgan must learn to forgive - first someone who did something that might be unforgivable, and then herself.But Morgan can't move on. She can't even move beyond the front door of the apartment she shares with her mother and little brother. Morgan feels like she's underwater, unable to surface. Unable to see her friends. Unable to go to school...
  • Where the River Runs by Patti Callahan Henry

    Where the River Runs by Patti Callahan Henry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meridy Dresden was once a free-spirited, fun-loving girl.All that changed when the boy she loved was killed in a tragic fire. Now, years later, Meridy must return to the South Carolina Low Country and summon the courage to make a decision that may destroy everything she's worked so hard to protect-including her heart...
  • The Pause by John Larkin

    The Pause by John Larkin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Declan seems to have it all: a family that loves him, friends he’s known for years, a beautiful girlfriend he would go to the ends of the earth for. But there’s something in Declan’s past that just won’t go away, that pokes and scratches at his thoughts when he’s at his most vulnerable. Declan feels as if nothing will take away that pain that he has buried deep inside for so long...
  • The Red Sheet by Mia Kerick, C. Kennedy

    The Red Sheet by Mia Kerick, C. Kennedy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One October morning, high school junior Bryan Dennison wakes up a different person helpful, generous, and chivalrous a person whose new admirable qualities he doesn't recognize. Stranger still is the urge to tie a red sheet around his neck like a cape.Bryan soon realizes this compulsion to wear a red cape is accompanied by more unusual behavior...
  • Ten Birthdays by Kerry Wilkinson

    Ten Birthdays by Kerry Wilkinson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Young Adult Novel of the Year 2018*"There are going to be so many things I wish I could’ve told you in person, Poppy. I won’t get the chance to do that, so perhaps this is my only way…"It’s Poppy Kinsey’s birthday...
  • The Art of Insanity by Christine Webb

    The Art of Insanity by Christine Webb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    High schooler Natalie Cordova has just been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. Her mom insists she keep it secret.Putting up a front and hiding her mental illness from her classmates is going to be the hardest thing high schooler Natalie Cordova has ever done. It’s her senior year, and she’s just been selected to present her artwork at a prestigious show...
  • The Ordinary Us by DomLuka

    The Ordinary Us by DomLuka

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is the story of seventeen-year-old Quinn Moore. He has a loving family, good friends and a girlfriend he's deemed as perfect. Quinn's also gay, not that he's about to admit it. He likes things just the way they are, thank you. But then he meets Jude Landon, and everything in Quinn's comfortable world is turned upside down.Status: Complete Word count: approx...
  • The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes

    The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, a novel about a lost girl and her horse, the enduring strength of friendship, and how even the smallest choices can change everythingWhen Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo--hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London...
  • The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane

    The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place—and she’s just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head—and her home state—and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens.Zander does not fit in—or so she thinks. She has only one word for her fellow campers: crazy...
  • A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

    A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A girl who can’t speak and a boy who can’t hear go on a journey of self-discovery and find support with each other in this gripping, emotionally resonant novel from bestselling author Sara Barnard. Perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Jandy Nelson.Steffi doesn’t talk, but she has so much to say. Rhys can’t hear, but he can listen. Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life...
  • My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

    My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness...
  • Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson

    Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking, bestselling novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen.Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why...When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong...
  • What Happens Next by Colleen Clayton

    What Happens Next by Colleen Clayton

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How can you talk about something you can’t remember?Before the ski trip, sixteen-year-old Cassidy “Sid” Murphy was a cheerleader (at the bottom of the pyramid, but still...), a straight-A student, and a member of a solid trio of best friends...
  • What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson

    What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    JAMES AND ALEX have barely anything in common anymore—least of all their experiences in high school, where James is a popular senior and Alex is suddenly an outcast. But at home, there is Henry, the precocious 10-year-old across the street, who eagerly befriends them both. And when Alex takes up running, there is James's friend Nathen, who unites the brothers in moving and unexpected ways...
  • 52赫茲的鯨魚們 by Sonoko Machida, 町田苑香

    52赫茲的鯨魚們 by Sonoko Machida, 町田苑香

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    52赫茲的鯨魚，是世界上最孤獨的鯨魚。其他鯨魚無法接收到牠發出的高頻率叫聲。雖然有很多同伴，但其他同伴聽不到牠的呼喚，牠也聽不到其他同伴的聲音。就像總是無比孤單、無人理解，無人在乎的我一樣⋯⋯ 沒有人能理解、無法將內心呼喊、求救傳達出去的你，並不孤單。「我會傾聽你那無法傳達給任何人的52赫茲的聲音。」　　日本九州一處偏遠的海邊小鎮。斷絕所有一切，獨自移居此地的貴瑚，在某個下雨天遇到了跟自己一樣散發孤單感的一名少年。 他身上有和我相同的氣味。那是沒有父母關愛的孤獨氣味。這種氣味很棘手，無論再怎麼仔細清洗都洗不掉。孤獨的氣味不是滲進皮膚或是肌肉，而是滲進內心。 她彷彿從少年身上看見當年的自己──悲慘、絕望、被踐踏、了無生趣。當時的貴瑚遇見了這世上唯一能聽到她求救呼喊的人，她才得以倖存。如今，貴瑚想要對少年伸出援手……...
  • All of It by Kim Holden

    All of It by Kim Holden

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Veronica Smith has it all: a loving family, a funky car named Jezebel, and a plan to go to college after graduation. On the first day of senior year she meets Dimitri Glenn-a mysterious transfer student with gray eyes and a mischievous smile who seems determined to win her heart...
  • Your Voice Is All I Hear by Leah Scheier

    Your Voice Is All I Hear by Leah Scheier

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I was the one he trusted. I was the one he loved, the only one who believed him, even when his own mother had locked him up and thrown away the key.And now, I was going to pass down the white tiled hallway, knock on his doctor’s office door, slam his secret notebook on her desk and make her read it, make her understand what he was hiding, make her see what only I had seen...
  • On Little Wings by Regina Sirois

    On Little Wings by Regina Sirois

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is a story of the countless ways we get love wrong. And why, despite every disappointment, we keep fighting to get it right. Jennifer must do the impossible – bring her mother home. When a family is torn apart by death, two sisters take violently divergent paths and the story of their family appears to end terribly and abruptly...
  • Reasons to Be Happy by Katrina Kittle

    Reasons to Be Happy by Katrina Kittle

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    REASONS TO BE HAPPY 21. Cat purr vibrating through your skin 22. Jumping on a trampoline in the rain 23. Raw cookie dough 24. Getting yourself all freaked out after a scary movie 25. Dancing like an idiot when no one is watching What happened to the girl who wrote those things? I miss that girl. She used to be bold and fun. Now she's a big chicken loser...
  • In Sight of Stars by Gae Polisner

    In Sight of Stars by Gae Polisner

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Klee’s father was the center of his life. He introduced Klee to the great museums of New York City and the important artists on their walls, he told him stories made of myths and magic. Until his death...
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