family problems

Best friends almost since birth, Zoe and Hank navigate the shifting boundaries of their relationships during high school as one of them struggles with an eating disorder and self-harm.

"High school senior Nic, seventeen, tries to salvage her tattered reputation by helping her Ivy League-obsessed classmates with college admission essays and finds herself in the process"--Provided by publisher.

When Flor Hidalgo breaks up with her boyfriend Zach, her best friend, Willa Evans, has no intention of letting herself fall for her handsome and newly available next-door neighbor. And Flor has no intention of falling for her hot, know-it-all tutor. But the girls learn that sometimes love happens even when you don't mean for it to.

High school senior Rooney Harris's life gets complicated when her mother loses her job and spends all her time with a cultish group who claim aliens will be arriving on November 17th to take believers to a new world paradise on an alien planet. Rooney does her best to keep herself, her younger brother--also a believer--and her mother intact, but as the deadline approaches, and their financial situation becomes more desperate, Rooney is faced with abandoning her own dreams to support her family, and keep her mother's mental illness from ruining all their futures.

In Crystal Springs, Louisiana, when sixteen-year-old James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead, he tries to run the household by himself, hiding his mother's death from the authorities, caring for his little brother, and scrounging for food until things become increasingly desperate.

"Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined"--Provided by publisher.

When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.

"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"--Provided by publisher.

"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--Provided by publisher.

It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first African American Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.