Charlotte Locke is a small fish in a big pond. Her mother is a professor, her father a famous writer, and her little brother a genius. Charlotte is relatively average, her giftedness in language arts balanced out by a learning disability in math. When her family moves right before her senior year of high school, [...]

Tags: debate, drugs, family problems, friendship, high schools, identity, sex
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Ahmed wrote one simple sentence in his journal. He knew his snoopy parents might read it. He did it anyway. Ahmed wrote, “I think I might be queer,” and with that thought his life changed. When his stepmother reads this, Ahmed fears for his life, worried that his family will kill him. Instead, they send [...]

Tags: drugs, family problems, homosexuality, romance, sex
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The Lover’s Dictionary is David Levithan’s foray into adult fiction, though this book reads more like a collection of prose poetry than a typical novel. Each page includes a word and its “definition,” altogether chronicling the bits and pieces that make up a relationship. Definitions vary from lengthy anecdotes to short declarations, but each and [...]

Tags: alcoholism, dating, love, sex
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In Lauren DeStefano’s Wither, the first book of the Chemical Garden trilogy, women are bought and stolen as breeding stock in hopes that natural births will prolong the lifespans of the next generations. Genetic engineering has caused a fatal disease which kills women at age 20 and men at age 25. This futuristic dystopian novel [...]

Tags: coming of age, death, dystopian, romance, sex, social classes
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According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy every day, there’s a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there’s something she hasn’t told Frankie—she’s already had [...]

Tags: death, friendship, grief, romance, secrets, sex, summer
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