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-- Negative onec2010., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab Call No: Realistic FIC Brezenoff Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Four teenagers relate their experiences as they try to cope with problems in school and at home by smoking, drinking, using drugs, and running track.
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-- One hundred days2017., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Realistic FIC McInnes Edition: First Square Fish edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Agnes, a girl born with progeria--which causes her body to age ten times faster than normal--doesn't know she has only 100 days to live. Her best friend, Moira, has been her protector from a young age, but now Moira has grown much bigger than Agnes, too big, she thinks. Boone is a boy who used to be friends with both girls--before he did something awful and turned Moira and Agnes against him. Now events conspire to bring the three back together. Romantic feelings spark, and friendship is put to the test.
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-- One hundred sideways miles[2014]., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: Realistic FIC Smith Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Finn feels like a character in his father's best-selling cult-classic book, especially when his first love, Julia, moves away. Finn and his best friend, Cade, go on a road trip to clear Finn's mind, attempting to visit the college they both want to go to. An accident along the way puts them on a different course.
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-- Forty-five pounds (more or less)2013., Adolescent, Viking Call No: Realistic FIC Barson Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Ann Galardi tries to lose forty-five pounds before being a bridesmaid in her aunt Jackie's wedding with unexpected results.
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-- Ninety days of different2017., Juvenile, Orca Book Publishers Call No: Realistic FIC Walters Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Ella is going to take the ninety days between high school and college to help Sophie explore her spontaneous side. The only rules are that Sophie cannot say no to anything Ella suggests, and everything they do must be posted to social media.
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By Dean, Zoeyc2003., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Realistic FIC Dean Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A-listSummary Note: Seventeen-year-old blueblood Anna Percy leaves Manhattan to spend the second half of her senior year with her father in Los Angeles and quickly becomes tied up in the lives of the rich and famous at Beverly Hills High School, incurring the wrath of the "A-list" girls her first night in town for dating the boy they want.
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c2007., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Realistic FIC Alexie Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view Summary Note: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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By Coll, Susan2008., Picador Call No: Realistic FIC Coll Edition: 1st Picador ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Harry and his mother take a tour of potential colleges, they decide to visit Yates University where Harry runs into two high school classmates. Together the three students and their parents must navigate the ups and downs of senior year while the Yates admissions officer, Olivia Sheraton, looks for the ideal applicant.
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2006., Holt Call No: Realistic FIC Johnson Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world while attending a summer camp for children with disabilities.
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2014., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: Realistic FIC Crompton Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Hailing from a family of risk-takers, seventeen-year-old Dyna is mountain biking one day when she falls and shatters her ankle. Two opposite guys--one who wants her to slow her life down, another an Afghanistan War veteran who encourages her to take chances again--force her to reassess her life and which one of them she loves.
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c2006., Adolescent, Harper tempest Call No: Realistic FIC Oates Oates Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.
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2010., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: Realistic FIC Woodson Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
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2007., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Easton Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In shock and unable to speak after being in a car accident in Oregon which has killed his parents, seventeen-year-old Adam journeys across the country to his home in Rhode Island.
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-- I got a handle on it[2017]., Adolescent, Cinco Puntos Press Call No: Realistic FIC Mixon Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Tim is a sophomore in a high school on the tough streets of Newark. With an alcoholic father who recently left the family, his home life can be rough. Already two years behind in school, Tim struggles to read and tries to fight the rage that boils inside his frustration with life and academics. But a fight with some gang members in his neighborhood leads to the death of another boy, and now Tim has to find a way back from the brink.
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2015., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: Realistic FIC Brugman Edition: First American edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Alex has somewhat of a split personality, one which thinks she is a girl, the other which thinks he's a boy. Slowly, painfully, the girl-persona wins out. Alex changes schools, gets new clothes, and tries to deal with the fallout of her parents' and friends' confusion. However, the other Alex is still alive and well, making his or her decisions that much harder.
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2008., Adolescent, Lee & Low Books Call No: Realistic FIC Delacre Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the life of Alicia, a popular sixteen-year-old, in the aftermath of a fatal car crash, as her friends, family members, and others recall key episodes that show her impact on their lives. Includes author's note about the real Alicia and how she inspired the book, as well as resources on teen grief.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Realistic FIC Kiely Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:5 of 7 At Location(s) Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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c2007., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: Realistic FIC Hautman Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie Hart.
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2017., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Young Edition: First Simon Pulse paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: After stabbing a pencil into her ex-boyfriend's hand when he makes fun of her disabled little brother Evan, Savannah Sutton is sent to Brooks Academy alternative high school and detention center. Brooks is a miserable place for Savvy, but home life is worse, especially when her aunt tries to take custody of her beloved brother. Then, Cameron, a new, troubled student at Brooks, starts breaking down Savvy's relationship walls.
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c2006., Adolescent, James Lorimer ; Distributed in the U.S. by Orca Book Publishers Call No: Realistic FIC Polak Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: SideStreetsSummary Note: Eleventh-grader Todd Lerner needs lots of cash to date Claire Labelle so he uses his weekly poker game to fund their dates but his love of the game turns into a dangerous addiction.
