young adult fiction

In this novel in verse, teen Jamie has a secret--she binds her chest every day to feel less like a girl. She questions why she feels drawn to do this, why she can't tell her friends, and if she could be genderqueer.

"Average Loser" Scott Tyler meets the mysterious and pretty Aubrey Jones, and his entire world changes. Aubrey reveals that Scott is a "Shifter," a being with the power to undo any and every decision that he ever had to make. At first Scott has great fun with his power--until the unintended, time-space-dimensional paradoxes start to rip his world apart.

Lucas dreams of getting a basketball scholarship and helping his mom out of poverty. But when his older brother lures him toward a life making "easy" money on the street, Lucas must decide what he wants.

After spending time in a juvenile detention center for a crime related to severe anger issues, seventeen-year-old Jada Robinson is sent to a foster home and enrolled in an alternative high school, and begins to move past her old life.

Mercedes Morgan could set a state record for three point shots and perhaps earn a place on a college basketball team if she can keep up the good work on the court. But when her sister winds up in a coma as a result of her gang activity, and her brother seems to be following the same path, Mercedes will have to make challenging decisions to help her family while trying to maintain her focus on her sport.

On her birthday, Minerva, a sixteen-year-old singer and songwriter, hears from the father she has never known and her placid life is disrupted.

Rachel Kelly was prepared for a high-stress, over-scheduled junior year filled with AP classes, orchestra, and an unrequited crush but after her troubled cousin Misty moves in and upsets Rachel's controlled life, Rachel finds herself becoming sympathetic toward Misty.

Eighteen-year-old Jos? serves as the bridge between his non-English speaking family and the rest of the world, and because his parents are illegal immigrants and extended family lives with them, money is tight so Jos? works nights and arrives at school so tired that teachers at his alternative high school step in to help.

A new, alternative high school, psychotherapy, a romantic interest, and a manga club help tenth-grader Jessica cope with her social anxiety disorder.

Marcus is a star basketball and football player at his athletically prestigious Baltimore high school, with his choice of Division 1 schools clamoring to give him a scholarship--however, at the state football championship, Marcus gets in a fight. Racial tensions are high, and Marcus' anger could ruin any chance he has at a collegiate future.