Ardelius, Gunnar                                                                                                                  ARD YA

                I need you morte than I love you and I love you to bits

Morris and Betty, two teens living in Stockholm, Sweden, meet and fall in love but the darkness within each of them at times makes it hard to maintain their love affair, especially after Betty compares Morris’s behavior to that of his bipolar father.

Friedman, Robin                                    Nothing                                                                 FRI YA

Despite his outward image of popular, attractive high-achiever bound for the Ivy League college of his father's dreams, high school senior Parker sees himself as a fat, unattractive failure and finds relief for his overwhelming anxieties in ever-increasing bouts of binging and purging.

Mass,Wendy               Heaven Looks Alot Like the Mall                         MASS YA

When high school junior Tessa Reynolds falls into a coma after getting hit in the head during gym class, she experiences heaven as the mall where her parents work, and she revisits key events from her life, causing her to reevaluate herself and how she wants to live

Applegate, Katherine                         Home of the Brave                         APP YA

Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.

Hopkins, Ellen                                        Glass                                        HOP YA

Sones, Sonya          When of those horrible books where the mom dies          SON YA

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Darrow, Sharon                              TRASH                                             DAR YA

Graffiti artists Sissy Lexie and younger brother Boy try to maintain a sense of family while living in a series of foster homes and staying with their older sister, until a tragic accident forces Sissy to make decisions about her future. For sixteen-year-old Sissy and her brother Boy, trash is a reminder of one too many sorry foster placements they've endured, a way of life they can't wait to escape. Now on the run in search of their big sister Raynell, ironically they are forced to rely on their trash-picking skills for sustenance and shelter. Reunited at last with Raynell in St. Louis, Boy and Sissy shed their old identities, reinvent themselves as graffiti artists, and splash their new names on city bridges and walls. But one night's expedition goes horribly wrong, and Sissy looks again to trash, this time as the beginning of something artful and beautiful.

Sones, Sonya                    What my mother doesn't know                         SON YA

Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right.

Sones, Sonya                    One of those hideous books where the mother dies                       SON YA     

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Myers, Walter Dean               Street Love                                        MYE YA

This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.

Yeoman, Ellen                              Rubber Houses                         YEO YA

A novel in verse that relates seventeen-year-old Kit's experiences as her younger brother is diagnosed with and dies of cancer and as she withdraws into and gradually emerges from her grief.