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2018., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: REALISTIC F CHA Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In Makersville, Indiana, people know all about fifteen-year-old Ronney--he's from that mixed-race family with the dad who tried to kill himself, the pill-popping mom, and the genius kid sister. Can Ronney figure out a way to hold it together as all his worlds fall apart?"--
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[2017], Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: MYSTERY F WER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An unlikely group of allies comes together to save themselves when their parents seem to be plotting to have them all killed.
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2013., Adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: REALISTIC F KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she's trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers' lives, and her own, for the better"--
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By Braden, Ann[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Sky Pony Press Call No: REALISTIC F BRA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out.
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By Braden, Ann[2018], Pre-adolescent, Sky Pony Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out.
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2012., Adolescent, Flux Call No: REALISTIC F GIB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: High school senior William "Wee Wee" Tucker may not be able to meet his pastor-father's expectations, stop his mother's drinking, or protect his gay brother, but his heroism as a volunteer firefighter has a big impact on his small Alabama town.
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2016., Adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL F PAT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly - thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows among them. Then, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family - and suddeenly the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control.
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Ã2014., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed.: April 2015. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy of Texas wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fiction, she'd know how to solve her problems at school; take care of her family when her dad has to spend time in the hospital; and deal with her family's secret: that her mother is agoraphobic and never leaves the house"--Provided by publisher.
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2010, Pre-adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
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[2013]., Adolescent, Harlequin Teen Call No: Romance FIC McGarry Genre: Romance Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hiding a deep-rooted secret about her mother, seventeen-year-old Beth Risk is forced into a new home in exchange for keeping her mother's secret safe. At her new school, she meets Ryan Stone, a popular boy with a spotless outer image who is hiding secrets of his own. As they grow closer, their lives -- and the hidden things that drive them -- begin to intersect.
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2018., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: MYSTERY F WAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twin brothers Cory and Ty Bic, seventeen, search for an escape from criminals in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
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By Key, Watt2018., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: ADVENTURE F KEY Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
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By Key, Watt2018., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: FIC KEY Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Adventure fiction Availability:7 of 9 At Location(s) Summary Note: When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: REALISTIC F KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: FIC AIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prairie EversSummary Note: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prairie EversSummary Note: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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[2020]., Dutton Books Call No: REALISTIC F ILO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it's the first time she's been so far from her family--and the first time that she's been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past--her mother's struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father's attempts to make a home for her. Ultimately, Ada discovers she needs to brush off the destiny others have chosen for her and claim full ownership of her body and her future"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- Girl in pieces2014., Cinco Puntos Press Call No: REALISTIC F QUI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
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2018., Adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: SPORTS F GRE Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While thirteen-year-old Teddy fights for his life after a football injury at training camp, his friends and family gather to support him and discuss events leading to his coma. Told through dialogue, text messages, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy's inner thoughts.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Call No: HISTORICAL F WIL Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
