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Love, friendships, dreams, challenges, struggles... all these stories are happening of their school lives.

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  • High school junior Jamison Deever discovered a love of photography through his mother, and begins to take photos of ordinary people on the street after his mom's death to help make sense of the passing of time, so that his memory of her is slipping…
    Book, 2022New York : Delacorte Press, ©2022. — YA PAR
  • Seventeen-year-old Ossie Brown's entire future is in jeopardy when a torn ACL ends his promising basketball career. But when he is encouraged by a teacher to join her highly regarded writing program, Ossie begins to find a new purpose, buoyed not…
    Book, 2025Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, ©2025. — YA JOS
  • Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class, but hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is…
    Book, 2015Los Angeles ; New York : Hyperion, c2015. — YA STO
  • Struggling with her parent's expectations and the changing shape of her friendships, Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything) to make her senior year different.
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario : Annick Press, ©2024. — YA LI
  • This is a story about what it's like to travel that strange course through the uncharted territory of high school, about the world of first dates, family dramas, and new friends, and those wild and poignant roller-coaster days know as growing up.
    Book, 1999New York : Pocket Books, c1999. — YA CHB
  • Now that Wren Martin is student council president, he's going to fix Rapture High. He secretly signed up for the nation-swept "not a dating" App, and things spiral out of control when he develops feelings for his anonymous match.
    Book, 2023Atlanta : Peachtree Publishing Company Incorporated, ©2023. — YA DEW
  • Sadie Wen is perfect on paper, she's the school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class". To keep her model-student smile plastered on her face, Sadie channels all her frustrations into her email drafts which would never been sent…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, ©2024. — YA LIA
  • Max is going to fail English lit, which means he'll be held back a year and won't go to college. Determined to graduate, he uses an AI program, ScribeGenius 2.0, to write his final paper. But Scribe has other plans for Max. It's not just a…
    Book, 2025[Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, ©2025. — YA MCI
  • Shannon Lynch has been bullied all her life. She is shy and would rather hide herself away to make it through school. But when she arrives at Tommen College for a fresh start, she meets the notorious Johnny Kavanagh on her first day in a…
    Book, 2023Naperville, Illinois : Bloom Books, ©2023. — FICTION WAL
  • Quinn Norton is starting over at a new high school and hopes that joining a D&D game will be the trick to making friends. The plan sounds even better when she's invited into a group that includes Logan Weber, the cute and charming guy she met on her…
    Book, 2024New York, New York : Delacorte Romance, ©2024. — YA BOY