If you liked "Turtles All the Way Down"
The Agathas
Glasgow, Kathleen, 1969-, author
2022
Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School--until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie.
All our broken pieces
Crichton, L. D., author.
2019
If Lennon Davis flicks the bedroom light switch five times, maybe her new LA school won't suck. Ten more flicks and maybe her new stepfamily will accept her. Kyler Benton witnesses this pattern of lights from the safety of his tree house in the yard next door. There he fills his notebooks with lyrics that reveal the true scars of the boy behind the oversize hoodies and caustic humor.
Ariel crashes a train
Cole, Olivia A., author
2024
Ariel grapples with her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Chaos theory
Stone, Nic, author
2023
"Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn't resist reaching out. And there's no doubt their connection has them both seeing stars... but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull their universes apart."-- Provided by publisher.
Darius the Great is not okay
Khorram, Adib, author
2018
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
The edge of anything
Carpenter, Nora Shalaway author
2020
"Len is a loner teen photographer haunted by a past that's stagnated her work and left her terrified she's losing her mind. Sage is a high school volleyball star desperate to find a way around her sudden medical disqualification. Both girls need college scholarships. After a chance encounter, the two develop an unlikely friendship that enables them to begin facing their inner demons. But both Len and Sage are keeping secrets that, left hidden, could cost them everything, maybe even their lives."-- Provided by publisher.
The falling girls
Krischer, Hayley, author
2021
Seventeen-year-old Shade learns that friendship can be toxic after she joins the cheerleading team over her best friend's objections.
Harley in the sky
Bowman, Akemi Dawn, author
2020
Eighteen-year-old Harley, dreams of quitting school to join her parents' Las Vegas circus and when they refuse, she joins a rival circus where she must learn hard truths and face consequences.
Highly suspicious and unfairly cute
Hibbert, Talia, author
2023
Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes... except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine. Celine Bangura is conspiracy-theory-obsessed. Social media followers eat up her takes on everything from UFOs to holiday overconsumption--yet, she's still not cool enough for the popular kids' table. Which is why Brad abandoned her for the in-crowd years ago. (At least, that's how Celine sees it.) These days, there's nothing between them other than petty insults and academic rivalry. So when Celine signs up for a survival course in the woods, she's surprised to find Brad right beside her. Forced to work as a team for the chance to win a grand prize, these two teens must trudge through not just mud and dirt but their messy past. And as this adventure brings them closer together, they begin to remember the good bits of their history. But has too much time passed... or just enough to spark a whole new kind of relationship?
Loner
Young, Georgina, author
2020
Lona kills her days by sneaking into the dark room at her old art school to develop photographs. She kills her nights DJ-ing the roller disco at Planet Skate. She is in inexplicably, debilitatingly love with a bespectacled Doctor Who-obsessed former classmate, and in comfortable, platonic love with her best friend Tab. Lona works hard to portray a permanent attitude of cynicism and ennui but will her carefully constructed persona be enough to protect her from the inevitable sorrows and unexpected joys of adult life?
This Story Is a Lie
Pollock, Tom.
2018
-- is a testimony from a protagonist who is brilliant, broken and trying to be brave.
The way I used to be
Smith, Amber, 1982-, author
2016
"After fourteen-year-old Eden is raped by her brother's best friend, she knows she'll never be the way she used to be"--Provided by publisher.
We are inevitable
Forman, Gayle, author
2021
After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
