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TEEN READS: Realistic Fiction

East Lansing Public Library

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  • In order to stop the destructive forces of gentrification, three best friends use social media to create a fake gang and get justice for their South L.A. community.
    BookNew York, New York : Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc., 2023. — YA ADIA
  • Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew coming out to his Muslim family would be messy--he just didn't think it would end in an airport interrogation room. But when faced with a failed relationship, bullies, and blackmail, running away to…
    BookNew York : Viking, [2020] — YA AHMADI 2020
  • After the loss of her mother, high school junior Soledad finds herself struggling to balance classes and her new job in California to support her family in Tijuana, Mexico, in this thoughtful story about identity, immigration, and family.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — YA ALEMAN
  • In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four months have passed since his best friend Ed was killed by a white man in a Brooklyn parking lot. When Singer, the man who killed Ed, is found…
    BookNew York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 223. — YA ALLEN
  • In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four months have passed since his best friend Ed was killed by a white man in a Brooklyn parking lot. When Singer, the man who killed Ed, is found…
    BookNew York : Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023] — YA BRUZAS
  • Explores the pain, the truths, and the hope that comes with growing up as a person of color in America, told in a way that can help foster conversations about what it means to navigate today's world, as well as inspire ways to work toward…
    BookGrand Rapids, Michigan : Blink, [2023] — YA BUCKMIRE
  • After her mom is taken by ICE, seventeen-year-old Rania's hopes and dreams for the future are immediately put on hold as she figures out how to take care of her younger brother and survive in a country that seems to be closing around them.
    BookNew York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2022] — YA BUDHOS
  • As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, [2022] — YA CLARKE 2022
  • There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape…
    BookNew York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2021. — YA COLES 2021
  • Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — YA FORREST
  • On the outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father sells her into the sex trade to help feed their family and repay his loans. It is, as she's been told, the fate…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — YA GUPTA
  • A page-turning YA contemporary novel about a Black teenager whose life is turned upside down when her white best friend becomes the latest "Becky" on the internet, and their town is left reeling from the publicity.
    BookNew York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. — YA HARRIS
  • A boy who must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls' disappearances are too often overlooked.
    BookNew York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — YA HARRIS 2021
  • In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — YA HO 2022
  • After spending two months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend
    BookNew York : Random House, 2023. — YA JOHNSON
  • Seventeen-year-old Raffy is determined to win a cosplay competition that could lead to art school admission and respect for his talent, but being paired with his main competitor, ex-boyfriend Luca, complicates things.
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2021] — YA LA SALA 2021
  • When freshman Declan Taylor hurts his pitching arm he becomes mad at the world, soon getting caught up with a group of white supremacists and turning against his Jewish former friend, Jake--but when things turn violent Declan must figure…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — YA LITTMAN
  • Upon arriving at the prestigious Wooddale University, seventeen-year-old Savannah Howard comes face-to-face with microaggressions and outright racism--but if she stands up for justice, will she endanger her future?
    BookNew York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2022] — YA LEE 2022
  • The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
    BookNew York : Dutton Books, [2022] — YA LO
  • When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023. — YA LOCKINGTON