Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes
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The Warehouse
by Bea Oertel
In a post-COVID world a hundred years in the future, wars and drought have created food scarcity, and a tyrannical world government has taken over. Teenager Kim has been imprisoned with her family in a labour camp for ten years, but she manages...
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Words and Actions
by Ekam Tarang
“Come out!” Victor called again. “Talk with me face to face. I’m here, you don’t have to stare at me from a distance! Show yourself!” He heard his name once again: Victor! “Stop shouting,” called Victor. “Come forward. Face me!” He got hit on the...
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Flower
by Cheris Piper
Aly’s a music major, just finishing up her third year of college. And now that exams are done, all she wants to do is pick up some extra shifts at work, write music, and hang out with her best friend. All summer. She doesn’t have time for guys....
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Promisero Academy
by L.M. Robertson
What if our hero wasn’t the Boy Who Lived, but the Girl Who Inconveniently Survived? On the eve of a coming-of-age ceremony that will determine her magical powers, thirteen-year-old Ariana Seaborne’s life is suddenly changed forever. When a...
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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...
