Summary: Sixteen-year-old Elle falls in love with Frank, the neighbor who helps her adjust to being on her own in a big city, but learning that he is transgendered turns her world upside-down. 186 p., Alfred A. Knopf.
Posts Tagged ‘realistic’
Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
January 3, 2011Grace by Elizabeth Scott
July 2, 2010
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Grace travels on a decrepit train toward a border that may not exist, recalling events that brought her to choose life over being a suicide bomber, and dreaming of freedom from the extremist religion-based government of Keran Berj. 208 p., Dutton.
Heart to Heart by Lurlene McDaniel
June 7, 2010
Summary: Relates the complicated friendship of a teenaged girl, her best friend, her best friend’s boyfriend, and a young heart transplant recipient. 214 p., Delacorte Press.
Wolves, Boys, & Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler
May 22, 2010
Summary: Two teenagers become close as the citizens of their town fight over the packs of wolves that have been reintroduced into the nearby Yellowstone National Park. 371 p., Viking.
Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams
May 22, 2010
Summary: Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason. 496 p., Simon & Schuster.
Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
April 11, 2009
Summary: The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action. 352 p., Viking.
Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe
November 20, 2008
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Kyle believes he does not deserve to live after accidentally shooting and killing his best friend. 376 p., Laura Geringer Books.
Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford
October 28, 2008
Summary: Brimming with sarcasm, fifteen-year-old Jeff describes his stay in a psychiatric ward after attempting to commit suicide. 245 p., HarperTeen.
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
October 16, 2008
Summary: Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart. 565 p., Margaret K. McElderry Books.
How to Build a House by Dana Reinhardt
October 3, 2008
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father’s divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado. 227 p., Wendy Lamb Books.
