domestic fiction

In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.

Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor heads into seventh grade armed with advice his grandfather gave him: to find a thing he's good at and become the best at it. But Rahul struggles with his identity, including his confusing attraction to classmate Justin Emery. Rahul joins the Mathletes but it doesn't go as planned, and when Jenny asks him to a dance, Rahul spirals into depression and anxiety. With the help of his best friend Chelsea, Rahul confronts who he actually is.

Sixteen-year-old Allie has known since she was seven years old that her family is different and even feared. She struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.

Deena comes out as lesbian to her family on her seventeenth birthday, but that event is overshadowed when her older sister, Mandy, jumps off a cliff. Their extended family is surprised by neither event, having always considered the Rys sisters "bad apples." Then, Deena finds the impossible happening--she starts receiving letters from Mandy, sparking a cross-country search in the hopes of healing her family and herself.

Told through alternating voices of Alice in present day and Alice's grandmother Alina in Nazi-occupied Poland, the story tells of Alina's struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II and years later her granddaughter Alice's journey to uncover the secrets of Alice's past that still affect their family in the present.

A teen boy in upstate New York begins breaking into homes and hacking the owners' computers to learn their secrets; sometimes he even shares the secrets in prank emails. However, when a woman in the neighborhood is murdered, suspicion mounts. The neighbors will do anything to protect their secrets, to find out who the boy is and what he knows.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

In this novel in verse, Anna suffers due to her parents' constant fighting, anger, and drinking. She pushes everyone away until the family reaches a breaking point. Anna realizes that she too, needs to make some changes.

Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started. There she joins the voter registration drive and is witness to the historic events of her era--the Great Migration to the north, postwar America's racism, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and the violent confrontations that it sometimes takes to bring about real change.

Tarah Carson has hidden the secret of what her uncle did to her years ago, but an upcoming reunion is forcing Tarah's past into the present and she must choose whether to face her past and biggest fear.