family problems

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Ice

1996
When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.

Jasper Jones

a novel
2009
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.

Some kind of normal

In a story told from their separate viewpoints, popular Trevor, who suffered traumatic brain injury in a drunk driving accident, and his assigned tutor Everly, a pastor's beautiful daughter who is hiding a devastating family secret, not only begin to redefine themselves, they find common ground and even love.

Tell the story to its end

2015
No one will tell Oli why he and his mother are staying with relatives in the country without his father, but when he finds a secret of his own, that lurking in the attic is Eren, a creature hungry for stories, Oli begins to make sense of what is happening with his family and faces the choice of learning the truth or abandoning himself to Eren's world forever.

Still a work in progress

Life at Noah's small school is pretty simple - especially for Noah's two best friends. When it comes to girls, don't always agree - except when it comes to Noah's older sister, Emma, whom they all acknowledge is perfect.

Bang

a novel
A new friend and their YouTube cooking channel help fourteen-year-old Sebastian move on from accidentally shooting his infant sister ten years earlier.

Crazy messy beautiful

2017
Sixteen-year-old Neruda Diaz, influenced by his namesake, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, yearns to fall in love but has yet to find the right girl.

Fire color one

2015
Following her fortune-hunting mother's plan, a teenaged arsonist meets her wealthy, dying father, the owner of a priceless art collection, only to discover that the stories she has been told about him all her life might not have been true.

Very in pieces

Very is tired of following the rules "like a sucker," while the rest of her family cuts out on basic responsibilities. It's time to stop keeping everyone else afloat and do what she wants.

Ask me something easy

Natalie Honeycutt
1991
After her father leaves the family, Addie must cope with her increasingly hostile, distant mother, perfect older sister, and sensitive younger twin sisters.

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