Category: Children + YA
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Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’Dell: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1986 Synopsis: Sacagawea, a Shoshone Indian, guided and interpreted for explorers Lewis and Clark as they traveled up the Mississippi, but she had adventures long before that one, like the time she was captured by the Minnetarees, and taken away from her family and everything that she…
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ASAP by Axie Oh: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2024 Synopsis: Sori has worked her whole life to become a K-pop idol, until she realizes she doesn’t want a life forever in the spotlight. But that’s not actually up to Sori—she’s caught between her exacting mother’s entertainment company and her father’s presidential aspirations. And as the…
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The June Boys by Court Stevens: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: March 2020 Synopsis: The Gemini Thief could be anyone. Your father, your mother, your best friend’s crazy uncle. Some country music star’s deranged sister. Anyone. The Gemini Thief is a serial kidnapper, who takes three boys and holds them captive from June 1st to June 30th of the…
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The Upside of Falling by Alex Light: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2020 Synopsis: It’s been years since seventeen-year-old Becca Hart believed in true love. But when her former best friend teases her for not having had a boyfriend, Becca impulsively pretends she’s been secretly seeing someone. Brett Wells has it all. As captain of the football team and…
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P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2015 Synopsis: Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter. They were just pretending. Until they weren’t. And now Lara Jean has to learn what it’s like to be in a real relationship and not just a make-believe one. But when another boy from her past returns to…
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Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2010 Synopsis: “I’ve left some clues for you.If you want them, turn the page.If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.” So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of…
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Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2018 Synopsis: Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding and hoping she can stop thinking about the one horrible thing that left her miserable and heartbroken—and threatens her future. But her brother, Ian, isn’t about to let her forget, and his constant needling leads…
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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2014 Synopsis: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day…
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Something I Am Not by Cher Gatto: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2019 Synopsis: A father who never loved him. A woman who stole his worth. A brother he couldn’t protect. Where does someone run in the face of his deepest shame? Billy McQueen works hard to keep his life together and concealed. At seventeen, he dreams of an…
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2012 Synopsis: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about…
