Liza begins to doubt her feelings for Annie after someone finds out about their relationship, then realizes, after starting college, that her denial of love for Annie was a mistake.

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother, whom she believes turned into a bird.

Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle. In order to survive, they must learn to trust each other.

A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club.

Illustrated by Raul Allen | As an Oakland teenager tries to figure out his life, he and his best friend put together a basketball team to play the invincible crew from Ghosttown.

When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more.

The adventures of an unusual dog, part Saint Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, 13-year-old Marcy Lewis uses her newfound courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.

A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fundraising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.

Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, she and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.

A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, accepts her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at a cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father.

Katherine and Michael, and their friends and acquaintances in suburban New Jersey, discover the possibilities and limitations of love and personal commitment.

Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and, especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

A teenager whose life is dominated by her drug problems recounts her experiences in a diary, from her introduction to the world of drugs to three weeks before her death.

After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

A coming-of-age classic depicting a year in the life of Esperanza Cordero, a young Chicana girl whose family moves to Chicago hoping for a better life.

Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcías—Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters—must learn a new way of life in the Bronx while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.

A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by twins Jude and Noah.

Amanda Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, but she is keeping a big secret, so when she falls for Grant, guarded Amanda finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her previous life as Andrew.

After meeting at their private school in New York, Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and struggle to cope with people's reactions.

Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.

Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and heading to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan—sort of—one that's going to help her figure out this whole "Puerto Rican lesbian" thing.

The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.

There are three neighborhood rules: don't cry, don't snitch, get revenge. Will grabs his dead brother's gun, and takes the elevator. On each floor, someone connected to his brother gets in. All are dead—victims of gun violence—and all have something to share with Will.

In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, 16-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive 14-year-old writer named Ponyboy.

Charlie, a freshman in high school, is a wallflower, shy and introspective, but very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.

Tired of being singled out at her mostly white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.

Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man who harbors a terrible secret.

When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.

Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

When a school bus accident leaves 16-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

A conflict of loyalties between Gene and his fearless friend, Phineas, leads to tragedy.

When an email falls into the wrong hands, 16-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or risk having his sexual identity revealed and the privacy of the boy he's been emailing compromised.

After being diagnosed with leukemia, 13-year-old Dawn is delighted to find a friend to battle alongside with her, until her friend, Sandy, slips back from remission.

Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.

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

A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first-generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.

Having never developed romantic feelings before her junior year in high school, Persian American Leila forges deeper bonds with supportive classmates after confiding in them her newfound attachment to a sophisticated girl.

After leaving her old life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.

Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends Dirk, Duck, and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.

Sixteen-year-old Nina Faye navigates the difficult world of teenage relationships and dysfunctional family dynamics.

When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is trying to avoid her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" while Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting an arranged marriage with him.

Informed that a bully she does not know is determined to beat her up, Piddy Sanchez struggles to learn more about the father she has never met until the bully's gang forces her to confront more difficult challenges.