Beyond High School
 Piper’s Son – Melina MarchettaAfter his favorite uncle’s death, Tom watches his family implode, quits school, and turns his back on music and everyone who matters, and while he is in no shape to mend what is broken, he fears that no one else is, either. |
 An Off Year – Claire ZulkeyUpon arriving at her dorm room, eighteen-year-old Cecily decides to postpone her freshman year of college and return home, where she spends a year pondering what went wrong while forging new relationships with family and friends. |
 Vast Fields of Ordinary – Nick BurdThe summer after graduating from high school, eighteen-year-old Dade watches his parents’ marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love. |
 I am the Messenger – Markus ZusakAfter capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness. |
 The Ivy – Lauren KunzeWhen Callie arrives for her freshman year at Harvard, she encounters her three vastly different roommates, new friendships, steamy romance, and scandalous secrets. |
 Psych Major Syndrome – Alicia ThompsonCollege freshman and psychology major Leigh finds her problem-solving skills woefully inadequate when it comes to her increasingly tangled and complicated romantic relationships. |
 Sophomore Switch – Abby McDonaldTake an administrative snafu, a bad breakup, and what shall heretofore be known as “The Hot-Tub Incident,” and you have got two unprepared sophomores on a semester abroad. |
 Sweetness of Salt – Cecilia GalanteAfter graduating from high school, class valedictorian Julia travels to Vermont to visit her older sister, and while she is there she learns about long-held family secrets that have shaped her into the person she has grown up to be. |
 Jane – April LindnerIn this contemporary retelling of “Jane Eyre,” an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past. |
 First Semester – Cecil Cross“JD” Dawson grew up in the hood, but left a life of violence behind to make something of himself in college. After showing up late to class & not studying, he gets assigned a tutor, the luscious Katrina Turner. Can he show her he’s more than his bad behavior? |
