Contemporary Fiction-OBR Teen Books and Boba Book Club July 2024

YA novels are made up of books for a wide age range (12-18 years old) and includes a variety of different topics and interests. Not all titles will be appropriate for all readers*

Showing 1 - 20 of 20  There are a total of 83 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "All the bright places"
Star rating for All the bright places
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another."
Book cover for "Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe"
Star rating for Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
Series:
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Book cover for "The art of being normal"
Star rating for The art of being normal
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
David Piper, always an outsider, forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Denton who, from the first day at his new school wants only to be invisible, but when David's deepest secret gets out, that he wants to be a girl, things get very messy for both of them.
Book cover for "Chlorine sky"
Star rating for Chlorine sky
Average Rating:
2.7 stars
Description:
Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
Book cover for "Dear Justyce"
Star rating for Dear Justyce
Author:
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Book cover for "Everything, everything"
Star rating for Everything, everything
Author:
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.
Book cover for "Fadeaway"
Star rating for Fadeaway
Description:
Fourteen-year-old Sam is struggling to get by without her best friend, Reagan, who died suddenly the summer before high school, but Regan's "reappearance" only helps temporarily.
Book cover for "Monday's not coming"
Star rating for Monday's not coming
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable--more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn't turn up for the first day of school, Claudia's worried. As Claudia digs deeper into her friend's disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she's gone? "Monday Charles is missing,...
Book cover for "Nothing burns as bright as you"
Star rating for Nothing burns as bright as you
Description:
"Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren't...
Book cover for "Pieces of me"
Star rating for Pieces of me
Description:
Eighteen-year-old Dylan is diagnosed with Dissociate Identity Disorder and grapples with what her diagnosis means for her future and her past.
Book cover for "Radio silence"
Star rating for Radio silence
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
A studious girl and a quiet, straight-A boy start a controversial podcast together that challenges their courage and forces them to confront issues in the form of backlash and censorship.
Book cover for "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda"
Star rating for Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.
Book cover for "Solitaire"
Star rating for Solitaire
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Tori Spring feels completely disconnected from her life--until she meets the relentlessly cheerful Michael Holden, and a series of schoolwide pranks starts to draw her out of her shell"--
Book cover for "The summer I turned pretty"
Star rating for The summer I turned pretty
Author:
Series:
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
Book cover for "Turtles all the way down"
Star rating for Turtles all the way down
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
Book cover for "The unexpected everything"
Star rating for The unexpected everything
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
When a scandal surrounding her father upsets all her carefully laid plans for her future, Andie must learn to accept a new relationship with her father and to embrace a little chaos in her life. "Seventeen year old Andie always has a plan, but when her father suffers a political scandal, her summer med school program is taken away from her, and a new guy comes into the picture, she finds a lot of unexpected things can happen when you're busy making...
Book cover for "Unpregnant"
Star rating for Unpregnant
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
When seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke discovers she is pregnant, she enlists the help of high school misfit Bailey Butler to drive her over nine hundred miles to the closest abortion clinic.
Book cover for "Watch us rise"
Star rating for Watch us rise
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Frustrated by the way women are treated--even at their progressive New York City high school--two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls.
Book cover for "We are okay"
Star rating for We are okay
Author:
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.
Book cover for "We were liars"
Star rating for We were liars
Author:
Series:
We were liars volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends -- the Liars -- whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during...