Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 67
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: friendship [X], child abuse, school stories, coming of age [X], bildungsromans, schools, high schools [X], interpersonal relations, conduct of life, audiobooks, obesity, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction
Touch
Ninth-grader Maisie's concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance, and truth are tested to their limit after a school bus incident involving three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: coming of age [X], best friends, family problems, friendship [X], stepmothers, high schools [X], schools
Althea And Oliver
The long-time friendship of high school juniors Althea Carter and Oliver McKinley is threatened when she tries to turn it into something more despite Oliver's resistance.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: single-parent families, sleep disorders, coming of age [X], friendship [X], best friends, schools, high schools [X], school stories
Wildlife
Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: friendship [X], grief, schools, high schools [X], coming of age [X], australia, melbourne (vic.), girls, teenagers, school stories
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: 2011
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1040
subjects: emotional problems of teenagers, friendship [X], alcoholism, mothers and sons, high schools [X], schools, emotional problems, coming of age [X], mother-son relationship, school stories, bildungsromans, ohio, bildungsromans
Life On Earth
The lives of the teenagers at Blithedale High intensify, as Claudia begins to tutor Nigel, Darren contemplates a major decision, and Paula wants to be more public in her relationship with Johanna.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 180
subjects: dating (social customs), friendship [X], missing children, alien abduction, coming-of-age comics, graphic novels, graphic novels, high schools [X], school stories, bildungsromans, interpersonal relations, sex offenders, electronic books, electronic books, schools, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics
The Spaces Between Us
Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: best friends, friendship [X], high schools [X], dysfunctional families, coming of age [X], schools, family problems, school stories, family life, bildungsromans, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, domestic fiction, electronic books
Cancelled
High school senior Brynn Whittaker faces a school-wide scandal when a viral video wrongly implicates her, prompting her and her friends to confront the school's misogynistic culture, while Brynn grapples with the decision to expose the true culprit.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: scandals, friendship [X], high schools [X], schools, coming of age [X], school fiction, bildungsromans
Diet Soda Club
"Reed Beckett's little sister, Beatrice, has never been awakened by the smell of breakfast or a school-day alarm clock.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: identity, schools, survival, coming of age [X], individuality, high school students, high schools [X], school stories, friendship [X], siblings, people with disabilities, survival skills, school fiction, social problem fiction
The Ghost Of You
"Caleb's world broke the day his brother died of a drug overdose.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage boys, grief, brothers, gender-nonconforming youth, teenage musicians, friendship [X], animal ghosts, high schools [X], coming of age [X], gender identity, schools, genderqueer fiction, bildungsromans, romance fiction