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YOUNG ADULT / FICTION / COMING-OF-AGE / EATING DISORDERS
Big Fat Disaster
By Beth Fehlbaum
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
286 Pages; hardcover, paperback, eBook
Insecure, shy, and way overweight, Colby hates the limelight as much as her pageant-pretty mom and sisters love it. It's her life: Dad's a superstar, running for office on a family values platform. Then suddenly, he ditches his marriage for a younger woman and gets caught stealing money from the campaign. From a mansion, they end up in a poor relative's trailer, where her mom's contempt swells right along with Colby's supersized jeans. Then, a cruel video of Colby half-dressed, made by her cousin Ryan, finds its way onto the internet. Colby plans her own death. A tragic family accident intervenes, and Colby's role in it seems to paint her as a hero, but she's only a fraud. Finally, threatened with exposure, Colby must face facts about her selfish mother and her own shame.
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YOUNG ADULT / FICTION / CONTEMPORARY / Ages 14+
The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent
By Ann Jacobus
Carolrhoda Lab / Lerner Publishing Group
Audiobook produced by Penguin Random House Listening Library
332 pages; audiobook, hardcover, eBook
18-year-old Del is in a healthier place than she was a year and a half ago: She’s sober, getting treatment for her depression and anxiety, and volunteering at a suicide-prevention hotline. Her own suicide attempt is in the past and living in San Francisco with her beloved aunt has helped her see a future for herself. But when Aunt Fran is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Del’s equilibrium is shattered. She struggles to help care for her aunt—while also dealing with a crush, her looming first semester at college, and her shifts at the crisis line. After Aunt Fran asks for her help with a mind-boggling final request, Del must confront her own demons and rethink everything she thought she knew about life and death.
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YOUNG ADULT / FICTION / HISTORICAL / SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY
Einstein’s Compass: A YA Time Traveler Adventure
By Grace Blair
Modern Mystic Media, LLC
400 pages; paperback, audiobook, eBook
Take a YA time traveler adventure with young Albert Einstein.
When young Albert Einstein’s father gives him a jeweled compass, he has no idea the adventure that awaits. Spanning from 10,400 BCE on the Islands of Poseidon to Switzerland in 1903, Einstein’s Compass sweeps across dimensions all while Albert Einstein is growing into his destiny. But a dangerous creature hunts Albert and the compass. In this fantasy adventure, cosmic forces of good and evil clash around a budding scientist on the cusp of his greatest discovery.
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YOUNG ADULT / FICTION / FANTASY / FABLE / COMING-OF-AGE
Ephemeral Wings
By Eva Silverfine; illustrated by Taina Litwak
Black Rose Writing
Audiobook produced by Penguin Random House Listening Library
Like many of us, Maggie is navigating her path through a complex world—except, her world is the stream. Having lost her home to changes in the current, Maggie, a mayfly, is searching the stream for the richest of foods to nourish her flight in the world of air. But the stream, with its ever-changing currents, seems a confusing array of possibilities. Where are the richest of foods? How might she find them? And what are the qualities that makes one’s forage truly rich? As Maggie travels the stream, she meets other streamlings who offer her advice based on their own experiences. Through these meetings, Maggie, unsure of herself, must define her own vision or risk missing the fulfillment that she seeks.
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YOUNG ADULT / FICTION / COMING-OF-AGE / SOCIAL ISSUES / AGES 14+
Find the Moon
By Beth Fehlbaum
Progressive Rising Phoenix Press
For as long as she can remember, Kylie Briscoe's been searching for the moon even though she has no idea why it soothes her. Placed in an impossible situation by her mother, Kylie cries for help. It brings rescuers and a new life, but it feels more like a death sentence when she is separated from her three-year-old sister Aliza, the only person Kylie's ever really loved.
When the authorities make a mistake that could cost her everything, Kylie must decide whether to tell the truth-all of it-in order to save herself and her sister.
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YOUNG ADULT / FICTION / ROMANCE / THRILLER
The Marshall Morris Has Done It Again Series
By Robert John Deluca
audiobook, paperback, eBook
The Battle for Sam Jacinto, Alliance Publishing & Media, 134 pages
The COVID Kid, Stanley Kramer Books, 277 pages
An affable Texas high schooler blunders into one amusing predicament after another always, eventually, coming out on top and much wiser for the experience
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YOUNG ADULT / FICTION / COMING-OF-AGE / SOCIAL ISSUES
By Beth Fehlbaum
Steady On Books
paperback, eBook
Courage in Patience, 237 pages
Hope in Patience, 281 pages
Truth in Patience, 251 pages
Tenacious 14-year-old Ashley Asher claws her way back to normalcy after enduring six years of an unimaginable Hell. Uprooted from her negligent and selfish mother, Ashley finds solace in the safety of her father's home. Building a relationship with her stepmother, she's finally able to open up and confront the past that haunts her. With the help of her stepmom, therapist, and a group of troubled adolescents, Ashley battles her demons, struggling to find the normal teenage life she's always wanted. Can Ashley find the strength and courage to overcome the horrors of her past while fighting for the future she so deserves?
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YOUNG ADULT / HISTORICAL FICTION / MYSTERY / SCIENCE-FICTION / AGES 13-18
Rise! A Girl's Struggle for More
By Diann Floyd Boehm
OC Publishing
The main character, Ruby Pearl, is mature beyond her years, born at least a decade too soon. Growing up in a family of nine children in Oilton, Oklahoma, with her nose constantly in a book, she's the girl who would rather read than can tomatoes.
Ruby's story unfolds amidst the backdrop of a horse and buggy town welcoming its first motor cars. She becomes a pioneer for girls her age, following the inspiration of the suffrage movement, breaking all norms, defying tradition-and her parents-to become a truly independent woman.
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