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Young Adult About Growing Up

Explore young adult books about growing up for children.

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Frankly in Love #1

Frankly in Love

Frank Li enters a fake-dating pact to hide his white girlfriend from his traditional Korean parents, only to find himsel

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Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

Six teenagers share their personal histories through honest interviews and photographs, chronicling their emotional and

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Better Than the Movies #2

Nothing Like the Movies

Wes is armed with grand rom-com gestures to win Liz back at college, but she isn't interested in his movie-style scripts

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A Thousand Steps into Night

Traci Chee

An ordinary innkeeper's daughter must outfox gods and monsters to reverse a demonic curse, only to realize she might not

Ages 12–18

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Ask Amy Green #3

Bridesmaid Blitz

Amy escapes her hectic life of new siblings and wedding meltdowns for a spontaneous trip to Paris, only to find her boyf

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Stoner & Spaz #1

A cinema-loving teen with cerebral palsy finds his solitary life disrupted by an unlikely, intense connection with a str

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The Klaatu Diskos #2

The Cydonian Pyramid

Raised for sacrifice beneath a massive pyramid, Lah Lia seizes a moment of chaos to escape through time and rewrite her

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The Beautiful #2

Vampires and immortals face the brink of war in New Orleans as Celine and Bastien struggle with broken treaties and memo

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The Heartbreak Bakery

After a bad breakup, Syd's magical brownies accidentally cause every couple in the community to split, and only new reci

Cover of Journey

Patricia MacLachlan

Searching through old photographs and torn memories, eleven-year-old Journey looks for the truth behind his mother's sud

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The First to Die at the End

Two strangers find an instant connection in Times Square on the fateful night Death-Cast begins predicting the exact mom

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You'll Be the Death of Me

Karen M. McManus

Three former friends ditch class to relive their glory days, only to stumble upon a murder scene that reveals they all s

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Orphaned and living with difficult foster parents, sixteen-year-old Ted finds a lifeline through his unique ability to c

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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea #1

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

Maggie Tokuda-Hall

An orphan hiding as a pirate and a lady fleeing an arranged marriage form an unlikely bond while planning a daring escap

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Great Britain #2

The Drowned Woods

Emily Lloyd-Jones

The last living water diviner joins a lady of thieves and a suspicious corgi on a high-stakes heist to destroy the magic

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Letters of Enchantment #2

Separated by a brutal war and lost memories, Iris and Roman must find their way back to each other through secret letter

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Claiming Georgia Tate

Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate struggles to protect her hope and find healing while carrying a painful secret after being

Cover of Untamed

House of Night #4

P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast

Life at the House of Night gets dangerous as Zoey Redbird faces new threats in this high-stakes chapter of her vampyre t

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The Boy Who Couldn't Die

William Sleator

After his best friend dies, sixteen-year-old Ken undergoes a ritual to become invulnerable to pain and death. But the my

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Better Than the Movies #1

Better Than the Movies

Liz teams up with her annoying next-door neighbor to win over her crush, only to realize that real love looks nothing li

Cover of Falling Like Stars

Falling Like Stars

A quiet stargazer and a boy with a camera find a spark under meteor showers, but rumors and heartache test whether their

Cover of Divine Rivals

Letters of Enchantment #1

Iris writes secret letters to her brother on the frontlines of a war between gods, never expecting her cold office rival

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Maximum Ride #10

James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet

In the ruins of New York City, seventeen-year-old Hawk has spent years waiting for parents who never returned, until a d

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The Inheritance Games #4

The Brothers Hawthorne

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Hawthorne brothers are pulled into dangerous games across the globe, from high-stakes London gambling clubs to famil

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