Coming of Age - Teens Ficton

The hilarious and heartening story of a teen girl who makes several astonishingly terrible decisions in an effort to find the support she needs. A spectacular YA novel from a long-time teacher and debut author, perfect for fans of coming-of-age stories like Radio Silence...

Growing up in a lower-class bakery in the heart of Lumierna, the capital of the kingdom Isles of Wyvern, Stirling Bakere, a 19-year-old boy, refuses to accept the standards of the oppressive society. At the age of ten, every child is tattooed an insignia...

Shadows linger where light is obstructed, and truth is veiled. Evil is an untreated disease in the once beautiful realm of Alandria.Kaeleigh is faced with a revelation that she must reconcile. She will decide if discovering the truth is worth the unknown consequences to...

A dying realm.The ancient evil of the Droch-Sh仡l has been unleashed. The Orchids have been silenced... but for how long?Daegan, elite of the Ferrishyn warrior tribe of Faeries, is charged with a mission to find the Sol-lumieth, a mysterious new power that could change...

Being one of King Arthur's knights involved far more running for your life than Finn could have imagined. Reading the book was never this invigorating ... or painful. But reading was easy for Finn. It was falling into his favorite King Arthur book that...

now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, and Milk) It was an accident. He didn't mean to kill the security guard with his skateboard--it was self-defense. But there's no one to back up his...

The Adventures of Jeremiah Pickleworth is about an eleven-year-old boy who discovers he has been blessed with a special gift. Follow his journey throughout his life as he discovers his powers and the characters he meets along the way. Fasten your seatbelt as Jeremiah...

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen AgeA California Book Award Winner for Juvenile LiteratureAn ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young AdultsA Booklist Top Ten Youth Romance Clara Wilson and Amos MacKenzie are finding their lives turned upside down: by each...

"A lyrical and moving debut...A magical book that feels like your favorite song playing on the radio." -- Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet ApartA queer YA Mamma Mia! with a dash of Maureen Johnson, The Last Love Song...

When 17-year-old June wakes up alone and confused on a hill after-well, she can't really remember-she quickly finds herself unable to leave. While exploring the boundaries of her new reality, people from her life arrive, reintroducing June to memories she's forgotten. When it becomes...

It's the summer of 1926 when eleven-year-old Shelby Laird first visits his grandparents in the small Virginia town of Claptrapia. An old castle there sparks his imagination, but it is the mansion's exotic inhabitants who surprise him. All is not well with the old...

Everyone deserves a place to feel welcome and safe-it's common sense. Perry, Gael, Dawson, Marina, and Valentina fight for the creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance club.Author: Jamie ToddISBN-10: 1642611425ISBN-13: 9781642611427Publisher: Storyshares, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2022Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d

Angela just wants to make her Ma happy, but it's an impossible task. Everything she does, everything she says, is wrong. Will she snap under the pressure and expectations or find a way to grow from the chaos?Author: Caroline GeeISBN-10: 1642614637ISBN-13: 9781642614633Publisher: Storyshares, LLCLanguage:...

Huda and Asif have grown up together among the rivers and deserts of Mosul. When they find their friendship tested by segregation, discrimination, and societal hierarches, they are not longer able to recognize one another.Author: Kaitlyn O'MalleyISBN-10: 1642612022ISBN-13: 9781642612028Publisher: Storyshares, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2022Pages: 34Format:...

Is this really happening? Is Jana moving AGAIN? Every time she gets used to a place and really starts to like it and make new friends, her mom tells her it's time to leave again. Jana would do anything to stay, but her mom...

On Celebration Day Emma Pureheart and her best friend Rina join students all across Salvoa in choosing a Career Path to study. Emma strives for a path where she can help people, and pushed her evaluations hard to get choices that would present those...

If you can't trust your parents, who can you trust? Cameron and Lewis Larsen are identical twins living normal, suburban lives ... until their mom and dad kill two uninvited guests at a neighborhood barbecue and then disappear. Following cryptic instructions their parents left...

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that's "a gem of a book" (Booklist, starred review) "perfect for fans of Outlander and Bridgerton" (Kirkus Reviews). What if...

Follow Dani's journey as it takes her from a house built over an old graveyard to a circus by the glittering sea. A standalone novel of a young woman's friendships, losses, and bond with a sparkling man on the flying trapeze.In a future where...

Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages. Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's tough, resourceful,...

Devaney Diamond and Chase Mackenzie's relationship has been like a Taylor Swift song. Best friends in elementary school. First loves in high school. Friends with benefits while Dani was away at college.But deep down, they have always loved each other. Have always been drawn...

The year is 2086. The Mars Station, a cold and colorless interior city of ten thousand on the Red Planet is ruled by a ruthless Governor bent on creating a future dedicated solely to scientific advancement. The population includes several hundred children, all of...

The chaos of life seemed too much for the illusionist Tenn Peller. Everyone sees him as a trickster and a con artist, and when he finally fulfills his teacher's dying wish, his past creates a misunderstanding that causes everyone to see him as a...

Two years ago, Jayde Holloway discovered she had the power to erase memories by accidentally wiping the memories of her best friend Jenny at the end of their senior year. Now, shut off from the world, Jayde exists solely for her role as the...

Biology Lessons is a heartfelt and profound contemporary young adult novel about the strength and importance of female friendship in a time when bodily autonomy is outlawed, from acclaimed author Melissa Kantor. Grace Williams has her future all mapped out. A high school senior...

Two friends in love, a third miserable, and a fourth raging mad. Will Gabriel find a way to save their friendship? After the treasure hunt that brought Gabriel together with his friends over the summer, a new adventure lurks on the horizon. When Eddie...

Award-winning author Amra Pajalic showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental...

Winner of the 2019 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult LiteratureListed in Kirkus Reviews' Best 100 Indie Books of 2019 and the top five (5) Best Indie Middle-Grade & YA Books of 2019"An engrossing sci-fi/fantasy that breathes new life into old tropes." -...

Author: Sonora ReyesISBN-10: 0063060310ISBN-13: 9780063060319Publisher: Balzer & Bray/HarperteenLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2024Pages: 320Format: PaperbackAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.7Point Value: 11Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 521086 / Luis Ortega Survival Club

Jacinta never planned to stumble into the world of the giants...or to throw herself back into the prince's lifeFor Jacinta and her mother, life is a daily struggle in the frozen north, right in the shadow of Battlement Wall. She can barely remember the...

"A real forward-driven, exciting adventure for young readers." Readers' Favorite ReviewI know where my birth parents are.And no, I haven't met them yet.Because if I want to, I'm going to have to save them first. ***** With the help of her friends Quince, Cam,...

'Tis the season for holiday hijinks in the newest sapphic rom-com about a rising star and a small town girl going on twelve fake holidates from the New York Times bestselling authors of She Gets the Girl, Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick! Twelve days...

In High heels, broken hearts, and antidepressants, we explore the realities of living in a society that is ill-suited towards teenage girls. A story told in three parts, the collection of poetry looks into the struggle of growing up and falling in love, all...

Not Missing a Single Thing is the story, the comprehensive story, of Ray and his journey from 'car crash' to triumph! Ray is a precocious ten year old boy who has had to endure numerous obstacles and difficulties, including the cruelties of bullies and...

The dead body found in the river has nothing to do with Todd. Sure, a murder is big news, but what would really interest him? A paying job. Then he meets Rat, who's already been to Vietnam. And when he offers Todd a gig...

Perfect for fans of Ben Philippe and Mary H. K. Choi, this charming, insightful YA novel follows two high school students who form a complicated, ground-shifting bond while filming a movie.High school junior Felix Ma wants to prove to his parents that he's not...

Fifteen-year-old Toaoleā has always been jealous of his sister. But when he accidentally sends her to the underworld, he must learn to overcome his own insecurities and cross the ocean to find her, before it's too late.Dysfunctional family dynamics come to life in this...

16-year-old Edelweiss Chapel is hopeless of escaping the life pre-written for her, but all of this changes one hot summer day. Edelweiss's life seems to become perfect, but what dangers await her when she meddles with romance, politics, and the most formidable empire- The...

In this heartfelt and hilarious debut from Ambika Vohra--that's Netflix's Never Have I Ever meets Jenny Han--one girl tackles a question that changes the trajectory of her senior year: "How have you gotten out of your comfort zone?" That's the Stanford admissions prompt that...

From Andrew J. Brandt, the Pencraft Award-winning author of Mixtape for the End of the World, a coming-of-age tale for fans of John Green set to the sounds of a galaxy far, far away. Eighteen year-old aspiring comic book artist Josh McCreary has a...

Amidst the deafening silence of loss, can a "Shy Girl" find her voice once more? Dive into a poignant journey of grief, resilience, and the healing power of music.In the aftermath of a heartbreaking loss, a once-vibrant teen becomes the whispered subject of school...

With refreshing echoes of golden age fantasy, Fog & Fireflies is a novel that brings together an imaginative world and fantastical cast of characters to explore the difference between growing older and growing up."Why do we grow more scared as we get older?"Hundreds of...

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With refreshing echoes of golden age fantasy, Fog & Fireflies is a novel that brings together an imaginative world and fantastical cast of characters to explore the difference between growing older and growing up.Why do we grow more scared as we get older?Hundreds of...

Quick-witted Tanner Malone has bombed the Test, an all-important exam that establishes how much he owes for his corporate-funded education. With his future plans crushed under a mountain of debt, Tanner enlists in the navy of his home star system of Archangel. But he...

One prince charming searching for his true love.Twelve beautiful damsels, elves, a dwarf & a commoner competing for the prince's hand in marriage.One shadow lurking behind the scenes, trying to assassinate the royal family and take control of the empire. Warning: if you're susceptible...

A charming romantic dramedy from the author of The Art of Insanity High schooler Skyler Davidson spends most of her time with her pet rat, Five. The daughter of scientists, she's determined to finish her late mother's research on neutron stars. So she teams...

Two very different boys, one new family, a shared struggle and a big secret. Tommy is talented, cool, a young offender, and dyslexic. Ryan is smart, uncool, well-behaved, and dyslexic. The two develop an unlikely friendship. As Ryan helps Tommy to read, a secret...

We're still on school break, and a lot is happening in the upcoming week before we have to head back to classes. My parents are arriving from New York, and we're moving into our new penthouse apartment. Noah wants to meet my parents-as my...

Social anxiety, her parents' divorce, and messy friendships won't stop Millie's pursuit of what she wants--in roller derby or in love. But her own lies might . . . Sixteen-year-old Millie Novak is stuck in an "if only" rut. If only she were stronger...