But when Delaney manages to secure both of them full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash will have to grapple with his need to protect and love Delaney, and his love for the grandparents who saved him and the town he would have to leave behind. Theo Mackey only remembers one thing for certain about the fire that destroyed his home: he lit the match. And the photograph that was supposed to show Pup a way out of his grief ultimately reveals someone else who is still stuck in their own. Only one choice will put her in a killers sights. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Literature has helped me in my most challenging moments, allowing me to confront and explore difficult emotions in a safe space, and its my sincerest wish that the novels in todays post will be able to provide that same comfort, consolation and help to a young reader when they need it most of all. Until last summer, when one tragic event turned their idyllic world upside down. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Now, the only people who seem to understand what shes going through are Lukes best friend and his ex-girlfriend, who she bonds with over their desire to figure out where Luke went when he walked out of their lives. But neither the estate nor the monster are what they seem. This book is about grief. When tragedy strikes, Tessa wakes up alone in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there. Stevie Rosenstein has never made a true friend. She cant stay in Havnestad or on two legs without Evies help. David: In the 622 days Ive attended Mapleview High, Kit Lowell is the first person to sit at my lunch table. Everyone has a fear of missing out on something a party, a basketball game, a hangout after school. But to move forward after losing Maggie, Corinne will have to learn to be honest with the people in her lifestarting with herself. Publication Date February 27th 2018 by Wednesday Books As captain of the Ellis Hollow Diving Team, with straight As and solid friends, hes only one semester away from securing a scholarship, and leaving his past behind. A secret society of so called Legendborn students that hunt the creatures down. What do you do when you want to run away but you end up finding yourself? It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Publication Date August 6th 2019 by Swoon Reads For fans of Love, Simon and Eleanor & Park, a tender, beautifully told (Julie Buxbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things) novel about a transgender boy who falls in love for the first time and how first love changes us all from New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith. Relatable, heartbreaking, and real, this is a story of resilience the perfect novel for readers of powerful contemporary fiction like Girl In Pieces and Every Last Word. Sixteen-year-old Eline Davis knows its true. Now Rachel has returned to the city and to the bookshop to work alongside the boy shed rather not see, if at all possible, for the rest of her life. It feels like no one here gets what Im going through. Every month theyd take her lucky quarter, select lucky card 505, and dominate the heatedly competitive bingo night in their small, quirky town of Huckabee. Autumn always knew exactly who she was: a talented artist and a loyal friend. On her second, she discovers the lock on her window is broken. Until his death. Their mother is ill with leukemia and the girls spend a lot of time with her at a Mexican clinic across the border from their San Diego home so she can receive alternative treatments. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Theres a secret attached to this boy that only Sasha and now Raquel knows. But no one, neither her loyal best friends nor her sweet new boyfriend, can help her forgive them. To escape, Dani takes long walks in the merciless heat. New Years Eve. Jonah was the only boy shed told she loved and the only boy to say it back. Her brother drowned months ago, and she cant feel anything anymore. But what if its life that youll be missing out on? As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity. Is it really better to have loved and lost? Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. Yet the boy, Adam, feels there is something familiar about Lily and Lily must admit that she feels a strange connection to him as well. Can the boy who thinks forgiveness makes him weak and the girl who thinks love is for fools find something real together? Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster care system. An authors note includes numerous sources detailing actual events portrayed in the story. Kyle and Kimberly have been the perfect couple all through high school, but when Kimberly breaks up with him on the night of their graduation party, Kyles entire world upends literally. The burden Munro carries, however, is not so easily cast aside. And moving on will mean sorting the truth from the lies the lies Ellory has been telling herself. Through blood and sacrifice, Amora Montara has conquered a rebellion and taken her rightful place as queen of Visidia. Steven Gerald Gabel a.k.a. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. A teen copes with her grandmothers coma by becoming obsessed with a mystery bird that she cannot identify in Adrienne Kisners sharp and poignant YA novel, The Confusion of Laurel Graham. And maybe thats a start. Stuck with only each other, they explore a world with no parents, no friends, and no school and realize that they can be themselves instead of playing the parts everyone expects of them. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. But a second chance awaits, if she can only find the strength within herself. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Debut author and Vanity Fair film critic Richard Lawson makes your heart stop and time stand still in his extraordinary and life-affirming novel thats perfect for fans of If I Stay and We All Looked Up. And who will stop at nothing to have Frances by his side. When Row wakes up to a world of snow and her sisters empty bedroom, she is left to piece together the mystery behind where Ariana went and why, realizing along the way that she might be part of the reason Ariana is gone. To make matters worse, Evie soon learns the reason her father was going to leave: he had been dating his twenty-two-year-old receptionist, Bree, who is now six months pregnant. As Eden falls deeper into her relationship with Will, she hardly notices as her real life blooms around her. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. As friendships deepen and love finds its way in, Hazel also learns that when you truly love someone, they are never really gone. It is there, at an assisted living residence called Fair Go Community Village, that Munro discovers the Coyote can be silenced. The Voice insists that if she takes Violet to a remote rock formation in the Arizona desert, her sister will live. Marley is suffering from her own loss, a loss she thinks was her fault. Victoria must figure out how to experience joy and grief at once, trusting all the while that Nicholas will hold up his end of the bargainbecause the alternative is too impossible to imagine. With Livs mom suing Clays family, there are divisions in the community that Liv knows shes not supposed to cross. Three appealing and relatable characters. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. When Raquel follows the instructions to return to Sashas grave, a mysterious stranger with striking eyes is waiting for her. Ultimately, she must decide if she can embrace his last wish for their family legacy along with forgiveness. And now shes spending her senior year running social media for her dads chain of super successful gaming cafs which mostly consists of trading insults with that decrepit old pinball arcade across town. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. by. Its the only way she can go on. But then Maggie dies, and Corinne quickly learns that the only thing worse than losing Maggie is being left heartbroken over a relationship no one knows existed. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. Publication Date February 23rd 2021 by Razorbill Publication Date May 15th 2018 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Publication Date May 7th 2019 by Dial Books Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. For fans of Serpent & Dove and A House of Salt and Sorrows comes a darkly atmospheric and romantic fantasy about an untrained witch who must unlock her power to free her brothers from a terrible curse and save her home. Love and loss coexist in this memorable young adult debut about a girl who moves to a new country to live with a father shes never met and how new friends help her leave the past behind. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Funny, romantic, and heartfelt, this is a story about secrets, lies, friendship, found family, an expired passport, a hidden VHS tape, fried pickles, the weird and wild city of Memphis, and, most of all, love. Then Tallie comes across a letter in the mail, and it only takes two words to crack the careful faade shes built up: Two words that had apparently been checked off on her brothers drivers license; two words that her parents knew about and never revealed to her. When Aggi Frank and Max Granger finally admitted their feelings for each other last December, it felt like love was beautiful and endlessuntil it wasnt. The revelation unravels Sabines world, while practical Blythe seems to take everything in stride. Publication Date October 17th 2017 by Orca Book Publishers Her best friend. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Publication Date June 15th 2021 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers They are determined to break down the walls she has so carefully built up. Then theres the girl next door: Dane cant quite define their relationship, and he doesnt know if hes got the courage to leave the friend zone. Francess newfound power attracts the attention of the leader of an ancient order who yearns for magical control of Manhattan. Publication Date December 5th 2017 by Poppy Publication Date April 4th 2017 by Harry N. Abrams Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. The doctors tell her she was lucky to survive. But Emilys moms luck ran out three years ago when she succumbed to cancer, and nothing has felt right for Emily since. Ev desperately wants to return to the Woodlands, and Philippa just wants to move on. Publication Date April 7th 2020 by Delacorte Press Neither can offer each other much supportat least not until their emotionally detached mother moves them into a ramshackle Bay Area mansion owned by a stranger named Charlie. Fans of Jewell Parker Rhodess Ninth Ward and Karen Hesses Out of the Dust will embrace this moving story. But when Olivia discovers a scavenger hunt orchestrated by Marley before she died, the group must come together again to complete it, reopening old wounds and unearthing new questions about what really happened. Required fields are marked *. But when the Northern Lights are visible over the Cape for just one night, she cant resist the possibility of seeing her mother again. The winner of the 2016 Text Prize, Beautiful Mess is funny and sad and a bit screwed up and romantic and absolutely real. But charming girl-magnet Ambrose isnt about to be discouraged now that hes met the one he really wants. However, this route only offers her a few years. Now, with only seven days until the spell wears off and the girls return to their graves, Mila must wrangle the distracted group of undead teens and work fast to discover their murdererbefore the killer strikes again. Instead, she walks the campus alone, still not having found her place or her people so far away from home. But there are some places Will cant walk by: The blessings store with the chest of 100 Chinese blessings in the back, the bridge on Fourth Street where his father died, and his childhood friend Playas house. Or will tragedy drive them apart for good? As an unexpected friendship blossoms between them and the two girls navigate the increasingly uncertain political situation in Zimbabwe, Tanyaradzwa helps Shamiso confront her fear of loss. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Six years ago, sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept away to a strange and beautiful kingdom called the Woodlands, where they lived for years. Who knew living, took more courage than dying? Do they even want to? Soon, hes opening up to a perfect stranger, and their connection is immediate. Chris and Maia arent off to a great start. Publication Date November 5th 2019 by Tor Teen The painful death of Shanes dad. The trace amount of alcohol in her bloodstream. Rowena feels like her family is a frayed string of lights that someone needs to fix with electrical tape. Maia is grieving the loss of her older sister and trying to find her place in the world without her. When Lotties beloved Aunt Helen dies of cancer, it upends her careful, quiet life. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Her friends seem to have changed overnight. As Lottie sets about following them, she realizes theyre meant to make her take a risk, and, for once in her life, really live. Magnetic, spontaneous, David is a gravitational force. But how can she when the past keeps threatening to drag her back? Trust in anything. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. When their unexpected split, the loss of her job, and her parents announcement that theyre separating coincide, Lees plans, her art, and her life are thrown into turmoil. He has a constant ache in his right hand. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. Goodreads Amazon Chapters The Book Depository Barnes & Noble IndieBound. He never thought that it would lead to their death. This acclaimed, darkly funny debut for fans of Jesse Andrews and Robyn Schneider about a teen whos consumed by love, grief, and self-destructive behavior is now in paperback. She watches as Jamie easily rejoins their former friends a group of magnificently silly theater nerds while avoiding her so intensely that it must be deliberate. Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Katie Cotugno, this is a story of loss, romance, and the time it takes to become who you really want to be. There are three beautiful blond Babcock sisters: gorgeous and foul-mouthed Adrienne, observant and shy Vanessa, and the youngest and best-loved, Marie. Since Ava lost Kelly, things havent been going so well. A beautiful exploration of first love and first loss, this novel effortlessly weaves together past and present to tell a profound story about how you can become whole again when it seems like youve lost the most important part of yourself.