What to say next (2017)

The secrets we keep

Trisha Leaver

2015 · 294 pages · 1 review

Others: Negative

"When her identical twin sister Maddy is killed in a car accident, seventeen-year-old Ella assumes Maddy's life, only to discover that it was filled with dark secrets"--

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

2011 · 224 pages · 12 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

A brilliant, graphic novel written by young but promising Patrick Ness. This is the story about 13 year old Conor and his mother who is dying of cancer. Conor has to face the cruelty of real life and learn to let his close and dearest go. When no human can help him Monster appears...

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.

Pax

Sara Pennypacker

2016 · 288 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be—with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own. . . .

Burn for Burn

Jenny Han

2012 · 368 pages · 2 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

Three girls from different social groups decide to secretly team up to get revenge against the three people who have wronged them.

Fire & Flood

Victoria Scott

2014 · 320 pages · 6 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive