Reality Check
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
The Queen Of Second Place
Smitten with a new boy at school, California high school sophomore Cassie Howard spends months trying desperately to win him over before she finally regains some perspective.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: identity (psychology), competition (psychology), friendship, interpersonal relations, high schools [X], california, school stories, family life
Hate List
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 60
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
The Tear Collector
As one of an ancient line of creatures who gain energy from human tears, seventeen-year-old Cassandra offers sympathy to anyone at her school or the hospital where she works, but she yearns to be fully human for the boy she loves, even if it means letting her family down.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
Probably Still Nick Swansen
Sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in which the other kids make fun of him, he has to take special classes, his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, and he is haunted by the memory of his older sister who drowned while he was watching.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: learning disabilities, self-acceptance, death, brothers and sisters, interpersonal relations, high schools [X]
Wish You Were Dead
Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: missing persons, kidnapping, high schools [X], schools, stalking, new york (state), weblogs, blogs, school stories
Deadly Little Lies
Camelia, who has recently discovered she shares her crush Ben's power of psychometry, finds herself in a tortured love triangle when a figure from Ben's past arrives and Camelia discovers that both boys are hiding dangerous secrets.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
Princess On The Brink
Princess Mia's junior year in high school begins with a difficult course load, a crazy student council race, Grandmere's search for temporary lodging, and learning that her boyfriend is moving to Japan for a year, partly because she will not sleep with him.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: princesses, high schools [X], sex, diaries, thermopolis, mia (fictitious character), new york (n.y.), schools, humorous fiction
Beautiful Creatures
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 113
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: supernatural, psychic ability, high schools [X], schools, dreams, south carolina, love stories, school stories, graphic novels, love, recluses, romance fiction, paranormal fiction, hermits, psychics, united states, confederate states of america, love stories
Black Box
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: depression, mental, sisters, dysfunctional families, interpersonal relations, high schools [X]
Hancock Park
While attending an exclusive prep school in Los Angeles, a smart but anxiety-ridden high school junior tries to deal with boys, popularity, and her parents' divorce.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Six Rules Of Maybe
Obsessed with solving people's problems, Scarlet finds herself often pushing her own needs off to the side.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: interpersonal relations, sisters, pregnancy, mothers and daughters, families, oregon, mother-daughter relationship, school stories, high schools [X], family life, schools, family
Tales Of The Madman Underground
Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1040
subjects: emotional problems of teenagers, friendship, alcoholism, mothers and sons, high schools [X], ohio
Spanking Shakespeare
Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: authorship, high schools [X], coming of age, schools, realistic fiction, school stories, bildungsromans
Albatross
A new student develops a destructive crush on a musician in love with the mysterious and alluring "albatross" around his neck.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680