Tough Topics in Teen Novels
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the The Hate U Give Secrets of the Universe By Angie Thomas By Benjamin Alire Sáenz YA THOMAS YA SAENZ After witnessing her friend's Tough Topics Ari is an angry loner with a death at the hands of a police brother in prison, but when he officer, Starr Carter's life is meets Dante and they become complicated when the police and in Teen Novels friends, Ari starts to ask a local drug lord try to intimidate questions about himself, his her in an effort to learn what parents, and his family that he happened the night Kahlil died. has never asked before. My Heart and Other Black Holes The Lines We Cross I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican By Jasmine Warga By Randa Abdel-Fattah Daughter YA WARGA YA ABDEL-FATTAH By Erika L. Sánchez Aysel's hobby, planning her own Basketball enthusiast Michael YA SANCHEZ death, takes a new path when attends anti-immigration rallies When the sister who delighted she meets a boy who has a with his parents until a their parents by her faithful similar plan of his own. friendship with a Muslim refugee embrace of Mexican culture dies, newcomer from Afghanistan Julia, who longs to go to college, Eliza and Her Monsters compels him to question his discovers that her sister may not By Francesca Zappia family's politics. have been as perfect as believed. YA ZAPPIA Eliza Mirk is the anonymous Speak Between Shades of Gray creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly By Laurie Halse Anderson By Ruta Sepetys popular webcomic, but when a YA ANDERSON YA SEPETYS new boy at school tempts her to A traumatic event near the end In 1941, Lina and her family are live a life offline, everything she's of the summer has a devastating pulled from their Lithuanian worked for begins to crumble. effect on Melinda's freshman home by Soviet guards and sent year in high school. to Siberia, where they must fight American Street for their life. By Ibi Zoboi Wintergirls YA ZOBOI By Laurie Halse Anderson The Way I Used to Be Separated from her detained YA ANDERSON By Amber Smith mother after moving from Haiti to Lia and Cassie are best friends, YA SMITH America, Fabiola struggles to wintergirls frozen in matchstick After being raped by her brother’s navigate the home of her loud bodies, competitors in a deadly best friend, Eden must learn to cousins and a new school on contest to see who can be the embrace the power of survival Detroit's gritty west side. skinniest. When Cassie she never knew she had hidden succumbs to the demons within, within her heart. Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend's restless spirit. Dear Martin Waukesha Public Library By Nic Stone Thirteen Reasons Why YA STONE 321 Wisconsin Avenue By Jay Asher YA ASHER Writing letters to the late Dr. Waukesha, WI 53186 Martin Luther King Jr., college- After receiving a box containing (262) 524-3682 thirteen cassette tapes from his bound Justyce McAllister www.waukeshapubliclibrary.org struggles to face the reality of dead friend, Hannah, Clay Find us on Facebook! race relations today and how they spends a night recounting the are shaping him. www.facebook.com/WPLTeenZone 7/18 cr events leading up to her death. Far From the Tree Turtles All the Way Down This is Where it Ends By Robin Benway By John Green By Marieke Nijkamp YA BENWAY YA GREEN YA NIJKAMP Feeling incomplete as an Aza Holmes, a high school Minutes after the Opportunity adopted child after placing her student with obsessive- High School assembly, someone own baby up for adoption, teen compulsive disorder, becomes starts shooting as four teens tell Grace tracks down her biological focused on searching for a the tale from separate siblings and finds herself fugitive billionaire. perspectives. struggling with the dynamics of being a middle child. Crank All the Bright Places By Ellen Hopkins By Jennifer Niven Little & Lion YA HOPKINS YA NIVEN By Brandy Colbert Kristina Snow is the perfect Theodore Finch and Violet YA COLBERT daughter, but she meets a boy Markey meet on the ledge of the Suzette returns home to Los who introduces her to drugs bell tower at school and begin Angeles from boarding school and becomes a very different an unlikely relationship, where and grapples with her bisexual person, struggling to control her each feels as if they can save identity when she and her life and her mind. the other. brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's Sold The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly bipolar disorder to spin out of By Patricia McCormick By Stephanie Oakes control. YA MCCORMICK YA OAKES Lakshmi is sold to a brothel in A handless teen escapes from a I Have Lost My Way India by her stepfather. She cult, only to find herself in By Gayle Forman remembers her mother's juvenile detention and YA FORMAN wisdom, "Simply to endure is to suspected of knowing who Three teenagers, Freya, Harun, triumph," until the day comes murdered the leader of the and Nathaniel feel lost in that she can reclaim her life. Kevinian cult. various ways and when they collide in Central Park, they The Female of the Species Long Way Down begin to find purpose in their By Mandy McGinnis By Jason Reynolds lives. YA MCGINNIS YA REYNOLDS Alex Craft knows how to kill Driven by the secrets and You’re Welcome, Universe someone. And she doesn't feel vengeance that mark his street By Whitney Gardner bad about it. When her older culture, Will contemplates over YA GARDNER sister, Anna, was murdered the course of 60 seconds When Julia finds a slur about her three years ago and the killer whether or not he is going to best friend scrawled across the walked free, Alex uncaged the murder the person who killed his back of the Kingston School for language she knows best. The brother. the Deaf, she covers it up with language of violence. graffiti and is expelled. The Education of Margot I’ll Give You the Sun Sanchez Under Rose-Tainted Skies By Jandy Nelson By Lilliam Rivera By Louise Gornall YA NELSON YA RIVERA YA GORNALL A story of first love, family, loss, Margot Sanchez is paying off her Norah, who has agoraphobia and betrayal told from different debts by working in her family's and OCD, develops feelings for points in time, and in separate South Bronx grocery store, but Luke, but wonders if she can voices, by artists Jude and her she must make the right choices conquer her inner demons twin brother Noah about her friends, her family, enough to be with him. and Moises. .