Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes
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Smoke and Rain
by Katelyn Terlie
Sixteen-year-old Bree wants to get out. Her family has moved, yet again, to a new town, but their problems have followed them to Kitimat. In an attempt to escape her manipulative and volatile father, Bree turns to pot and alcohol, but her stash...
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Because Of You
by Fiona Brands
Liv and her best friends Travis and April have just started their last year of high school and things have gotten complicated—Liv has feelings for Travis, April is getting into trouble already, and Travis has a new girlfriend. But then Liv’s mom...
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Zebra-Girl
by Pearl Lee
Seventeen-year-old Nessa Harding’s world—previously filled with light and colour has faded to black and white. Her father, a frustrated poet, has left home. Her mother, a talented seascape painter, is in the midst of a nervous breakdown. Nessa’s...
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The Black Knights
by Tammy J. Coulter
Rick “Moneyman” Attison wants out of the Black Knights, a vicious teen gang led by the notorious Johnny “Blade” Chilton and his friends at Colonial High School. Rick’s life isn’t easy; his mother and brother have left the family, he rarely sees...
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Sunflower
by Emily Morra
Fifteen-year-old Liv Morgan has moved with her mom from Buffalo to rural Kansas after her parents’ divorce in the late-1980s. Soon after she arrives, she meets Jack Lindt, who very quickly becomes her best friend and boyfriend. But the innocence...
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Chasing Through Time
by Tara Hodgson
In the tumultuous world of high school, Emma grapples with a devastating breakup, a damning social media scandal that threatens her reputation, and an overwhelming sense of isolation. Her parents are distant, she has no true friends, and her...
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The Deadly Intruder
A Kingdom In Terror by Karen E. Mosier
Take me far, far away, Faster than a wink of an eye I pray, To the land where the Darach roam, To the land of the magical stones, To the peoples of the mountain, Forest, bog, hill, and river, Great Everything, bring me thither. This fantasy...
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Darragh: Dragon
by Arden Erimitis
Everything within her quarreled over whether she wanted to be more gnome than dragon, or more dragon than gnome. ----- Quiet and curious, Dragon Gaelen isn’t a typical dragon. For one, she was raised by gnomes. Having lost everything before she...
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For Josh
by Patty Mepham
Trish had dreams once: dreams of graduating high school, getting into ballet school, and becoming a renowned dancer, with her parents and big brother cheering her on all the while. But those dreams died with her brother. Ever since Josh’s fatal...
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