YA Contemporary Fiction

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter is trying to balance her suburban prep school life with the poor, black neighborhood where she lives when she witnesses her childhood best friend Khalil get shot and killed by a police officer. As tensions mount and her city erupts in protests, the only person who knows the truth of that night is Starr, and what she does or doesn't say can change everyone's lives forever.

Sixteen-year-old misfits Eleanor and Park tell in alternating voices their deep feelings for each other, which have developed over the course of a school year, and that they hope will help them survive when Eleanor begins having serious problems at home.

When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

Poor Maddy has one of the rarest conditions in the world, most easily summed up as being allergic to the outside. For seventeen years she has never left her house, seeing only her mother and her nurse--until one day out of a moving truck next door jumps Olly, the boy with whom she quickly falls in love and decides to literally risk her life for by going out of her house.

Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.

Just as Lara Jean Song is navigating a new relationship with Peter, a former crush reenters her life and causes her to question which boy she is really meant to be with.

Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.