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Melinda Sordino starts high school as an outcast because she called the police at a summer party, and as the year goes on she barely speaks, finding a voice only in art class, while she struggles to face what happened to her that night.
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The Catcher in the Rye
A teenager expelled from prep school wanders New York City for three days, raging against phoniness while revealing the grief he can't face.
Thirteen Reasons Why
Clay Jensen comes home to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who took her own life two weeks earlier, explaining the thirteen reasons why, and he is one of them.
Dear Martin
Justyce McAllister, a Black honour student at a mostly white Atlanta prep school, is handcuffed by a police officer while trying to help his drunk ex-girlfriend, and starts writing letters to Martin Luther King Jr. to work out how to live by his teachings.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
A thirty-year-old Glasgow office worker with a scarred face and a rigid routine begins to come out of herself after she and a scruffy IT guy help an old man who collapses in the street.
Before I Fall
Samantha Kingston, a popular high school senior, dies in a car crash on the night of February 12 and then wakes up on the same morning, again and again, with seven chances to work out what she has to change.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist growing up poor on the Spokane Indian Reservation, decides to transfer to the all-white farm-town high school twenty-two miles away, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Looking for Alaska
Miles Halter leaves Florida for a boarding school in Alabama in search of what Rabelais called the Great Perhaps, and finds it in his new friends and in Alaska Young, a clever, reckless girl who pulls him into her orbit.
She's Come Undone
Dolores Price narrates forty years of her own life, from a television-fed New England childhood through rape and obesity and a bad marriage into something that finally looks like a self.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A freshman in a Pittsburgh high school writes unsigned letters to a stranger about the senior friends who save his year and the childhood memory that comes back at the end of it.
Harriet the Spy
Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch, who wants to be a writer, spies on her Manhattan neighbours and classmates and writes down everything in her notebook, until her friends find it and read what she wrote about them.
Beneath the Wheel
Hans Giebenrath, the gifted son of a Black Forest merchant, is pushed by his father and teachers into the elite Maulbronn seminary, where a rebellious friend shows him another way to live.
Paper Towns
Quentin Jacobsen has loved his adventurous neighbour Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar for years, and after she takes him on a night of revenge pranks across Orlando and then disappears, he follows the clues she left behind.