Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues

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Early to Death, Early to Rise

Kim Harrison

Seventeen, dead, and in charge of heaven's dark angels—all itching to kill someone. Madison Avery's dreams of ever fitting in at her new school died when she did. Especially since she was able to maintain the illusion of a body, d...

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Published: May 2011

Once Dead, Twice Shy (Madison Avery, ...

Kim Harrison

My name is Madison Avery, and I'm here to tell you that there's more out there than you can see, hear, or touch. Because I'm there. Seeing it. Touching it. Living it. Madison's prom was killer—literally. For some reason she's been t...

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Published: May 2010

L.A. Candy

Lauren Conrad

Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer . . . everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she wo...

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Published: Jan 2010

Sweet Little Lies: An L.A. Candy Nove...

Lauren Conrad

How Sweet it is? Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Now the girls have an all-access pass to Hollywood's hottest everything. But there...

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Published: Sep 2010

Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

Holly Black

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway...

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Published: Sep 2006

Party Princess (Princess Diaries #7)

Meg Cabot

Princess just want to have fun . . . And Mia does too, despite the fact that the student government over which she presides is suddenly broke. But Grandm're's got a wacky scheme to raise the money, catapult Mia to theatrical fame, and...

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Published: Jul 2008

I Even Funnier: A Middle School Story...

James Patterson

In James Patterson's follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller I Funny, middle schooler Jamie Grimm has big dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world--and he won't let the fact that he's wheelchair-bound stand in his w...

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Published: Dec 2017

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of...

Ann Brashares

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will ...

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Published: Apr 2008

Blonde Ambition: An A-List Novel (A-L...

Zoey Dean

Having gone out to L.A. to experience the real party scene, Upper East Side socialite Anna Percy learns important lessons about friendship and love after her new beau makes a sudden departure from her life and she is left to deal with...

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Published: Sep 2004

13 Little Blue Envelopes

Maureen Johnson

Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket. In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat. The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist. Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a...

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Published: Oct 2006

Viola in Reel Life

Adriana Trigiani

I'm marooned. Abandoned. Left to rot in boarding school . . . Viola doesn't want to go to boarding school, but somehow she ends up at an all-girls school in South Bend, Indiana, far, far away from her home in Brooklyn, New York. N...

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Published: Aug 2010

Public School Superhero

James Patterson

"A smart and kind story topped with just the right amount of social justice," according to Kirkus, James Patterson's newest hit illustrated novel is a genuinely funny, poignant look at middle school in a challenging inner-ci...

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Published: May 2016

Where the Lilies Bloom

Vera Cleaver

Mary Call has promised her dying father to keep her brother and sisters together forever on the mountain, and never to take any help from strangers. She is determined to keep her word. No matter what. At first she is sure she can mana...

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Published: Oct 1989

Clifford Makes A Friend (level 1)

Norman Bridwell

Because Clifford, the big red dog, imitates everything the boy does, he quickly makes a friend.

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Published: Nov 1998

Exit Here.

Jason Myers

Enter apathy.Travis is back from college for the summer, and he's just starting to settle in to the usual pattern at home: drinking, drugging, watching porn, and hooking up. But Travis isn't settling in like he used to; something isn'...

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Published: May 2007

Bright Young Things

Anna Godbersen

The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwes...

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Published: Aug 2011

Whatever Happened to Janie?

Caroline B. Cooney

No one ever paid attention to the faces of missing children on milk cartons. But as Janie  Johnson glanced at the face of the little girl who had been taken twelve years ago, she recognized that little girl--it was herself.The myste...

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Published: Sep 1994

Bloom

Elizabeth Scott

There's a difference between falling and letting go.Lauren has a good life: decent grades, great friends, and a boyfriend every girl lusts after. So why is she so unhappy? It takes the arrival of Evan Kirkland for Lauren to figure out...

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Published: Apr 2007

I Want to Live (Dawn Rochelle Novels)...

Lurlene McDaniel

Dawn Rochelle has just turned fourteen, and her cancer has been in remission for almost a year. This summer, as she helps prepare for her brother's wedding and goes to camp, her life seems almost normal again.But when Dawn returns ho...

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Published: Sep 2003

Love, Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of 'the world's longest letter,' in diary form, going fro...

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Published: Apr 2009

Becoming Naomi Leon

Pam Munoz Ryan

Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, and her status at school as 'nobody special.' But accordi...

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Published: Oct 2005

Dragon Heir

Cinda Williams Chima

The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack.  Everyone is doing their part -- Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls; Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army; even ...

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Published: Sep 2009

Sugar and Spice: An L.A. Candy Novel

Lauren Conrad

Sugar and Spice . . . Not everyone's nice. Fresh from being betrayed by one of her closest friends, new reality-television celebrity Jane Roberts has learned a few lessons. Most important: know who to trust. And in Hollywood, that l...

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Published: Apr 2011

You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl N...

Cecily Von Ziegesar

While busy working to get herself an acceptance letter from an Ivy League college, seventeen-year-old Blair Waldorf has only recently begun to notice that Nate, her gorgeous boyfriend for the past three years, has been secretly seeing...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Princess Diaries, Volume IV: Prin...

Meg Cabot

Never before has the world seen such a Princess. Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. But Genovian politics are nothing next to Mia's real troubles. Between canceled dates with her long-sought-after royal consort, a second s...

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Published: May 2008

Alt Ed

Catherine Atkins

Due to their inappropriate behavior, a group of six students are sent to meet with a school counselor once a week for a semester in order to avoid expulsion from their schools while learning how to deal with their emotions and persona...

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Published: Sep 2004

Gossip Girl #6: You're the One That I...

Cecily Von Ziegesar

With ski weekend over, it is time for the moment of truth when the girls begin to get their acceptance/rejection letters from their Ivy League schools, but when personal issues soon take precedents over everything else, the close frie...

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Published: Oct 2004

Dead Is the New Black

Marlene Perez

Welcome to Nightshade, California—a small town full of secrets. IIt's home to the pyschic Giordano sisters, who have a way of getting mixed up in mysteries. During their investigations, they run across everything from pom-pom-sh...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner Trilog...

James Dashner

The Scorch Trials picks up where The Maze Runner left off. The Gladers have escaped the Maze, but now they face an even more treacherous challenge on the open roads of a devastated planet.And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variabl...

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Published: Sep 2011

The Luxe

Anna Godbersen

Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan, 1899. Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Dian...

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Published: Oct 2008
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