What I lost (2017)

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Ned Vizzini

2000 · 444 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.

Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo

2020 · 432 pages · 19 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.

The Order of the Poison Oak

Brent Hartinger

2005 · 211 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

After "coming out" at school, sixteen-year-old Russel decides to take a counselor job at a camp for burn victims to get away from the antagonism of his classmates, but finds ten-year-old boys have just as many problems as he does.

The Nowhere Girls

Amy Reed

2017 · 416 pages · 2 reviews

Others: Positive

"Three misfit girls come together to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew and in the process start a movement that transforms the lives of everyone around them"--

Paperweight

Meg Haston

2015 · 304 pages · 3 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

That was then, this is now

S.E. Hinton

1971 · 159 pages · 1 review

Others: Mixed

Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.