Sophomore Year is Greek to Me by Meredith Zeitlin Pages : 336 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : High school sophomore Zona Lowell has lived in New York City her whole life, and plans to follow in the footsteps of her renowned-journalist father. But when he announces they’re moving to Athens for six months so he can work on an important new story, she’s devastated— he must have...

My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga Pages : 302 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. There’s...

The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen Pages : 435 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough. Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary...

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews Pages : 295 Genre : YA Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he’s figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times. Keep an insanely...

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella Pages : 288 Genre : YA Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey’s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother’s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she’s never been able to do with anyone...

A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall Pages : 272 Genre : YA, Romance Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : The creative writing teacher, the delivery guy, the local Starbucks baristas, his best friend, her roommate, and the squirrel in the park all have one thing in common—they believe that Gabe and Lea should get together. Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class. They get the same pop culture...

Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols Pages : 325 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 About the Book  : Heaven Beach, South Carolina, is anything but, if you live at the low-rent end of town. All her life, Leah Jones has been the grown-up in her family, while her mother moves from boyfriend to boyfriend, letting any available money slip out of her hands. At school, they may diss Leah as trash, but she’s the one who...

My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick Pages : 394 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs up next to her and changes everything. As the two fall fiercely for each other, stumbling through the...