Flattered by the attentions of Nick, the cutest guy in school, seventeen-year-old Grace Warren, captain of the math team, lets down her guard and gets pregnant the night she loses her virginity. Hopeful that Nick will drop to one knee and propose when she breaks the baby news to him, Grace is heartbroken - Nick wants nothing to do with her. Her best friend, Jennifer, thinks she should get an abortion, but Grace is certain that her morally upright parents will insist that she keep the baby. After...
Dicey's Song (The Tillerman Cycle, #2) (Lions S.)
by Cynthia Voigt
The Newbery-winning novel in Cynthia Voigt's timeless Tillerman cycle. When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing, she left her four children no choice but to get on by themselves. They set off alone on foot over hundreds of miles until they finally found someone to take them in. Gram's rundown farm isn't perfect, but they can stay together as a family-which is all Dicey really wanted...
When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn t have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she ll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-mechanical one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program.
Seventeen-year-old Mabel Shepley loves working at Past Perfect, a sleek, high-tech store in San Francisco, where she helps customers view their memories-or mems-through lens recordings in the privacy of a state-of-the-art VR booth. Mabel hasn't recorded her own mems since the Very Bad Event of the previous year, but the customers are cool and it pays well. Mabel's life is easy-breezy until Charlie is hired for the summer. Charlie and Mabel bond over the course of their shared shifts, and soon th...
Pamela Collins, a fourteen-year-old girl living near Lynn Canyon Park in Canada, struggles to deal with changing friendships, school, growing up, and her future while coping with her mother's death.
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.
The Supernormal Legacy (Supernormal Legacy, #3)
by Leeann McLennan
If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? (A Harper keypoint book) (Horizons)
by M E Kerr
Alan, a popular senior high school student, faces painful changes after a new student, Duncan "Doomed" Stein, comes to town and starts an influential underground newspaper.
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
'A delicious, evocative story' THE GUARDIAN From the author of THE POET X comes a sumptuous prose novel, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas' On the Come Up, Justin Reynolds' Opposite of Always and Nicola Yoon Ever since she got pregnant, seventeen-year-old Emoni's life has been about making the tough decisions - doing what has to be done for her young daughter and her grandmother. Keeping her head down at school, trying not to get caught up with new boy Malachi. The one place she can let every...
A vain teenaged girl is obsessed with beauty and perfection until she uncovers a devastating family secret.
Tenley "Ten" Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girlwho has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she'll liveafter she dies.