Realistic Fiction
 Chopsticks – Jessica AnthonyTold entirely with images, this is the story of Glory, a piano prodigy. Brilliant and lonely, Glory falls in love with Frank, who moves in next door, and is soon unable to play anything but the song “Chopsticks.” |
 Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse – Lucas KlaussA fifteen-year-old high school student becomes involved with an evangelical Christian girl in spite of his father’s adamant atheism and his own confusion about life. |
 The Sky is Everywhere – Jandy NelsonIn the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician. |
 Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie – Jordan SonnenblickWhen his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, school life, and his desire to support his family. |
 How to Build a House – Dana ReinhardtSeventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father’s divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado. |
 Marcelo in the Real World – Francisco X. StorkWhen his father forces Marcelo, a seventeen-year-old who struggles with an Asperger’s-like condition, to spend a summer working at a law firm, he’s not sure if he can handle the pressures of the “real world.” |
 The First Part Last – Angela JohnsonBobby’s fun teenage life changes forever after he gets his girlfriend pregnant and has to care for his new daughter. |
 Hate List – Jennifer BrownThe Hate List, a list of people Val & her boyfriend Nick disliked, was meant to be a joke, but when Nick shoots up the school, killing students & himself, Val realizes how serious it was. How can she accept the fact that boy she loved became a murderer? |
 Mistik Lake — Martha BrooksAfter Odella’s mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, the family finally learns some of the many secrets that have haunted them for two generations. |
 Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature — Robin BrandeAfter obeying her conscience once leaves her alienated from her parents and former friends from a conservative church , Mena has to decide if it’s worth it to stand up for what she believes in a second time. |
 Sweethearts – Sara ZarrAs children, misfits Cameron and Jennifer were best friends, but after he disappeared, she reinvented herself as the popular ‘Jenna’. When he reenters her life years later, she asks herself how much she’s really changed… |
