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In this "engaging" teen romance From a #1 New York Times bestseller, "a high school senior falls for the boy who accidentally killed her sister" (Kirkus Reviews).
Beth's life hasn't been the same since her sister died. Her parents try to lock her down, believing they can keep her safe by monitoring her every move. When Beth sneaks out to a party one night and meets the new guy in town, Chase, she's thrilled to make a secret...
Beth's life hasn't been the same since her sister died. Her parents try to lock her down, believing they can keep her safe by monitoring her every move. When Beth sneaks out to a party one night and meets the new guy in town, Chase, she's thrilled to make a secret...
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Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper." --
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for... and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl... and she's made of fire. Lei is a member of the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She's forced to go with...
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Three dark crowns volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Katharine sits on the throne of Fennbirn. Dead bodies have washed up on the shore, but the real Mirabella and Arsinoe are in hiding. There are murmurs of dissent among the people of Fennbirn. The crown has been won, but unexpected renegade is about to wage a war of her own. The battle to be queen is far from done. -- adapted from jacket
When she finally gets the crown, Queen Katharine faces murmurs of dissent among her people and the threat of her...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex." Cole fantasizes about whomever he's looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with...
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Bring me their hearts trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven, but when Biz's almost-normal life turns upside-down and her father disappears again, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--
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Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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In Hawaii, Jaya Mehta is a transgender outsider with depressive tendencies. The stunningly beautiful Rasa Santos thinks sex is her only power. Rasa meets Xander, who beats her, cuts her, and makes her prostitute herself. Will their love transcend and pull them forward or will they remain stuck, separate, in the chaos of their pasts?
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Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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As a preacher's daughter, Monique is expected to be an example at church although she hates its restrictive rules. When she discovers she physically cannot have sex, and after her boyfriend breaks up with her for that reason, two unexpected teens from church become her main supports as she desperately tries to break the rules against all the odds.
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Baylee goes from having never been kissed to navigating two potential relationships, one with her long-time crush Freddie and the other with funny barista Alex, as the world begins to shut down from COVID-19.
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Best friends Liv and Morgan are dating brothers, Nathan and Clay. On their way home from a party in Clay's convertible, four lives change forever in a sudden impact, a screech of brakes, and shattering glass. Live wakes up in the hospital, confused when people call her Morgan. But when the bandages come off her face, it's Morgan's face in the mirror. Morgan always seemed to have the perfect life, but as Liv tries to fit herself into Morgan's world,...
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Traitor's trilogy (Erin Beaty) volume 3
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After an assassination attempt, Sage and her fiancé attempt to undercover who the traitor is and work to avoid a war with another country.
Once a spy and counselor to the throne, Sage Fowler secured victory for her kingdom at a terrible cost. Now an ambassador representing Demora, Sage faces her greatest challenge: avoiding a war with a rival kingdom. After an assassination attempt destroys the chance for peace, Sage and her fiancé Major Alex Quinn...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Everyone, including Zee's classmates, gym buddies, and even her so-called best friend assume that she is a lesbian. Everyone who takes a look at Art's nice clothes and pretty face assume that he is gay. But there is more to Zee and Art than anyone realizes. What develops is a powerful connection between two people who are beautiful in all the ways they've been told are strange. As they explore their own complex relationships to gender, sexuality,...
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Series
House of secrets (V. C. Andrews) volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fern and her mother live as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family. And her friendship with Dr. Davenport's son Ryder was never a problem... until they came of age. An intimate encounter following the high school prom brings the pair near-tragic consequences. But the real threat to their happiness is something no one can control: the past, and the truths that lurk there. -- adapted from jacket
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14) Boys I know
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Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"June Chu is the 'just good enough' girl. Good enough to line the shelves with a slew of third-place trophies and steal secret kisses from her AP Bio partner, Rhys. But not good enough to meet literally any of her Taiwanese mother's unrelenting expectations or to get Rhys to commit to anything beyond a well-timed joke. While June's mother insists she follow in her (perfect) sister's footsteps and get a (full-ride) violin scholarship to Northwestern...
15) The towering sky
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Series
Thousandth floor volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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English
Description
Leda, Watt, Rylin, Avery, and Calliope struggle with their relationships, expectations, and the secrets they are all hiding.
New York, 2119, is a skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams. A new investigation on what happened in Dubai forces Leda to seek help from the person she's spent all year trying to forget. Rylin is reunited with an old flame, but when she starts seeing Cord again, she finds herself torn between two worlds, and two very...
16) Breathless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
17) Rave
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Author Jessica Campbell (XTC69) uses frankness and dark humour to articulate Lauren's burgeoning crisis of faith and sexuality. She captures teenage antics and banter with astute comedic style, simultaneously skewering bullies, a culture of slut-shaming, and the devastating impact of religious zealotry. Rave is an instant classic, a coming of age story about the secret spaces young women create and the wider social structures that fail them."--
18) Kissing lessons
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hayden Vargas is a girl with a bad reputation who really just wants to finish high school and get away from her alcoholic mother and the whole boring high school dating scene, so when Emmaline Martin offers to pay her for lessons in attracting and managing boys it seems like a way to pick up some easy money for her post-high school life--but she did not count on the attraction she feels for her client's brother, Nolan, who is not only gorgeous, but...
19) Blood moon
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Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin - and gets her period. It's only blood, they agree. But soon a gruesome meme goes viral, turning an intimate, affectionate afternoon into something sordid, mortifying, and damaging. In the time it takes to swipe a screen, Frankie's universe implodes. Who can she trust? Not Harriet, her suddenly cruel best friend, and certainly...
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