Currently viewing the tag: "Contemporary"
Author: Tanita S. Davis
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, LGBT, PoC
Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
Publication date: May 8 2012
Hardcover: 240 pages
Teenage twins Ysabel and Justin Nicholas are lucky. Ysabel’s jewelry designs have already caught the eyes of the art world and [...]
Author: Nalo Hopinkson
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication date: April 17th 2012
Hardcover: 256 pages
Sixteen-year-old Scotch struggles to fit in—at home she’s the perfect daughter, at school she’s provocatively sassy, and thanks to her mixed heritage, she [...]
Title: A Greyhound of a Girl
Author: Roddy Doyle
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Amulet/ Marion Lloyd
Publication date: May 1st 2012
Hardcover: 208 pages
Mary O’Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the [...]
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Genre: Contemporary, Horror, Middle Grade
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books
Publication date: First published 2001
Paperback: 154 pages
At first, Jamie isn’t too worried about the bad dreams he’s been having since coming to his aunt’s house. Most people awoken in the middle [...]
Title: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Author: Emily M. Danforth
Genre: Contemporary, LGBT, Young Adult
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Publication date: February 7 2012
Hardcover: 480 pages
When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief she’ll never have to [...]
Author: A.C.E. Bauer
Genre: Contemporary, Retelling, Mythology, Young Adult
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date: February 28 2012
Hardcover: 192 pages
Good looking, athletic, and smart, Gill Marsh is the most popular kid at Uruk High School, even though he is [...]
Author: Kate Kae Myers
Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publication date: February 14 2012
Hardcover: 353 pages
Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn follows clues apparently from her dead twin, Jack, in and around Seale House, the terrifying foster home where they once lived. With help [...]
Author: R.J. Palacio
Genre: Contemporary, Middle Grade
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (US) / Bodley Head (UK)
Publication date: February 14 2012 / March 1 2012
Hardcover: 320 pages
I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.
August (Auggie) Pullman was [...]
Author: Erin Saldin
Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication date: February 1st 2012
Hardcover: 348 pages
Erin Saldin’s The Girls of No Return is a lacerating young adult debut about girls, knives, and redemption. The Alice Marshall School, set within [...]
Author: Kate Ellison
Genre: Contemporary, Mystery/Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Publication Date: February 2012
Hardcover: 336 pages
Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and [...]
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