Emily climbs (1920)

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

2012 · 368 pages · 20 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

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.

Crash and Burn

Michael Hassan

2013 · 540 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

Steven "Crash" Crashinsky relates his sordid ten-year relationship with David "Burn" Burnett, the boy he stopped from taking their high school hostage at gunpoint.

Emily of New Moon

L.M. Montgomery

1923 · 330 pages · 2 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

Fairy tales

Hans Christian Andersen

1846 · 264 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer Series, Book 1)

Michelle Hodkin

2011 · 464 pages · 10 reviews

Others: Mostly positive

Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.

Winger

Andrew Smith

2013 · 5 reviews

Others: Mostly positive

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.