Grades 9-12
Lily is starting her junior year of high school as the “new kid.” She soon becomes friends with a boy named Cole who tells her about the thirty year old murder-suicide of a senior named Ben who also happened to be Cole’s uncle. The killer was Amber, Ben’s girlfriend. Lily feels a connection to Amber and has a feeling that there’s more to her story. She then embarks on a mission to investigate the truth about Cole’s death.
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Grades 9-12
Francesca and Mira Cillo drown themselves in a nearby lake. Their friend Ben finds a note that Mira left which sends him on a quest to find the seven places where they touched. Through his journey, Ben finds a secret that Mira and Francesca kept and realizes that some things are better left unsaid.
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Grades 9-12
Adam Blake is enrolled in his high school’s most coveted elective: Assistant to the school psychologist. At first he spends the period on his cell phone, but then the psychologist asks him to track down a student. The student is Julian, Adam’s foster brother whom he hasn’t seen in years. Upon reconnecting with Julian, Adam sees that he is the same kid he always was. However, as the two get close again, Adam realizes that Julian has a lot of secrets that he’s not willing to open up to him about. Adam decides to help Julian, but will he make it better or make it worse?
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Grades 9-12
Alicia has been diagnosed with a plethora of mental illnesses and idolizes Sylvia Plath. Alicia hallucinates many worlds that are very different from her own reality. She meets a boy named Jax in on of her hallucinations, only to find out later that he is not actually a hallucination, but someone she is connected to in real life. She then starts out on a journey to find true self and save all those around her that she loves.
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Grades 9-12
Jess’s life has changed dramatically since the last time she saw her father; for one she was a boy named Jeremy. Now that she’s graduated from high school, she wants to try to make amends with her father who rejected her after she came out to him as trans. She believes that his wedding is the perfect place to do that. She starts out on a journey with her best friend Chunk to show up to her father’s wedding, which, she was fully invited to. Will her father come around? Or will it be a complete disaster?
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Grades 9-12
Viv has always been an over-achiever and has a plan to get the perfect grades, the perfect SAT scores, and get into the perfect college. But when she meets a new group of friends at her job at the community pool, she realizes that she can be whoever she wants, because they don’t know anything about her past. She just doesn’t know who that person is yet, but she starts to understand that she is allowed to be less than perfect.
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Grades 9-12
This is a sassy and romantic story! Aurora Skye has a strategic plan on how to keep all the boys who try to kiss her from doing so. She’s never been kissed, and, though she’s had plenty of opportunity, she is waiting for the right guy. When she finds out that she has a secret admirer, she is certain that he is the one she’s been waiting for. Then, she is cast in the school play “Much Ado About Nothing” as the lead role opposite her former friend and current archenemy, Hayden. She’s horrified. He can’t be her first kiss! And in a play, in front of the whole school, no less. Will she be able to keep him away until she finds her secret admirer, or will it all come crashing down and end up being a complete disaster?
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Ages 14+
Sloane moves to Florida from New York and becomes involved in a close knit group of friends. Two of those friends are twins Gabs and Vera. When a painting by the twins’ late mother goes missing, Sloane takes it upon herself to bring it back to the twins. She started on the journey feeling like the twins needed her to do this for them, but what she doesn’t realize is how much she needs them to help her in return.
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Grades 9-12
Libby Strout is known for one thing: being America’s fattest teen. No one bothered or cared to get to know her for who she really is. After her mother’s death, she is done with home-schooling and now ready to attend high school after a long while of staying home all the time.
When Libby gets mixed up with Jack Masselin, a boy who goes to her school, the two of them end up in group counseling and community service. Jack knows how to give people what they want, but he has a secret: he is unable to recognize faces. Because of this, he spends his time trying to “get by,” and he constantly reminds himself not to get too close to anyone. As time goes on, Libby and Jack’s relationship starts to change. Will Jack be able to come clean to Libby about his secret?
Ages 14+
Despite her difficult past, Lily moved on from the small town she grew up in, graduated from college, and then moved to Boston to start her own business. There she meets Ryle, a neurosurgeon who she falls for, and hard. Their relationship is great, until an old flame of Lily’s shows up and threatens everything that she and Ryle have. Will she be able to truly move on from her past to secure her future?
Michelle’s Bookish Life 