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Real, compulsive and intense: Cat Clarke is the queen of emotional suspense. For fans of Paula Hawkins, Gillian Flynn, Megan Abbott and Jandy Nelson. Jem Halliday is in love with her gay best friend. Not exactly ideal, but she's learning to live with it. Then the unspeakable happens. Kai is...

In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction. On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in...

Something horrible happened to Cali, but she was healing—emancipated from her mother and employed by a company dedicated to saving the bee population. Cali was healing until her trauma reappeared. He had stalked her, waited until she was on a secluded farm tending to bees before confronting...

A lighthearted and swoony contemporary YA novel with a 2000s throwback about a cheerleader who’s determined to make a comeback … and the ex-boyfriend who might get in her way. From USA Today bestselling author Janette Rallison comes All’s Fair in Love, War, and High School, a hilarious and...

Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs - it can’t give her Reeve Hartt. Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that draws Johanna’s fluttering moth. Johanna is determined to get her, against all advice, and to help her, against all reason. But love isn’t always reasonable, right? In the precarious place where attraction and need collide, a teenager experiences the dark side of a first love, and struggles to find her way into a new light.

Jaya’s a rich kid. Rasa’s broke and without guidance. On the edge of adulthood and on the opposite sides of the tracks. Romeo and Juliet, on fair Oahu. Seventeen-year-old Jaya Mehta detests wealth, secrets, and privilege, though he has them all. His family is Indian, originally from Gujarat...

This heartfelt coming of age story follows Michie, a high school junior who begins to grapple with big questions of love, purpose, and family while working on something that could change her life. High school junior Michie is struggling to define who she is for her scholarship essays, her big...

Heartache, betrayal, and abuse: These are Mia’s lifelong companions, inflicted upon her by parents who wish she’d never been born. The night she was kicked out of the house, Mia would have frozen to death—if not literally, then emotionally—were it not for the love of her best friend’s family. Intuition, love, and wonder: These are Sophie’s gifts, unleashed by her struggle with Cystic Fibrosis and her determination to live fully. When Mia tells Sophie about the long walk down the mountain in the snow, Sophie instinctively knows there is more to the story of Mia’s survival.

A week ago, Jewel Jacob’s biggest worry was making it into the high-stakes Teen Arts Fest. Now, all the winning paintings lie in tatters while she lies in a hospital bed, her arms throbbing and absolutely no recollection of trying to kill herself. When a caring therapist helps her unearth buried memories, she must maneuver between her old life as a smart, talented, "normal" freshman and her new reality of whispers, stares, and a misfit support group with other kids who attempted to end their lives.

I’d do anything for Bianca...except introduce her to my family. I know she wants to meet them, but I can’t predict what my dad might do. How can I tell her that? Our ugly family secret stays locked within our house, just the way Mum wants it to be. I won’t expose Bianca to it. But she’s starting to pull away from me. I can feel the wedge growing between us, and I don’t know how to stop it. Maybe she’s hiding something from me too. The light in her eyes doesn’t shine so bright these days. I wish I could figure out what is eating at her.

I was drowning when I met him, hoping he could be my life raft. Little did I know that he was already at the bottom of the sea, adrift in pain. But then he offered me a hand, and you know what they say: "Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased." So, I took it and gladly let myself get pulled to the bottom of the ocean, but what I found there is more shocking than I could ever imagine.

Nadie está a gusto en su propio cuerpo. Pero Dylan siente que el suyo es demasiado. Demasiado alto, demasiado peludo, demasiado grande. En terapia conocerá a Jamie y, por primera vez en su vida, encajará. Ella le mira como nadie lo ha hecho antes. Y cuando él la mira, ve en ella todo lo que siempre ha querido. En cambio los demás, cuando miran a Jamie, ven algo completamente distinto. Y cuando la presenta como «su chica», sus amigos se ríen. Demasiado.

Kaelen is the perfect boyfriend. Smart, athletic, attentive, and willing to keep their secret. Abigail is the only girl at his high school smarter than him. With his 165 IQ, he can talk to her about anything; science, math, social issues...chemistry. He just can’t date her. Until the day he gives up trying to pretend he isn’t in love and the chemical equation that burns between them gets too hot to ignore.