World After by Susan Ee
Penryn's search for her kidnapped sister, Paige, leads her into the
heart of the angels' secret plans, while Raffe must choose between
reclaiming his wings--and his role as the angels' leader--or helping
Penryn survive.
Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn
A year after vanishing from a party, screaming and drenched in blood,
seventeen-year-old Annaliese Rose Gordon appears hundreds of miles from
home with no memory, but a haunting certainty that she is actually
another girl trapped in Annaliese's body.
The Pitcher by William Hazelgrove
A boy with a golden arm but no money for lessons. A mother who wants to
give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down World Series
pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife. These are the
elements of The Pitcher . A story of a man at the end of his dream and a
boy whose dream is to make his high school baseball team. In the
tradition of The Natura l and The Field of Dreams , this is a mythic
story about how a man and a boy meet in the crossroads of their life and
find a way to go on. You will laugh and you will cry as The Pitcher and
Ricky prepare for the ultimate try out of life.
No Easy Way Out by Dayna Lorentz
Teens Marco, Shay, Ryan, and Lexi form new allies in the quarantined
mall-as the bodies pile up, the disease mutates, the Senator's authority
is questioned, and it becomes clear there's no one to trust.
Break These Rules by various YA Authors
If you're a girl, you should strive to look like the model on the cover
of a magazine. If you're a boy, you should play sports and be good at
them. If you're smart, you should immediately go to college after high
school, and get a job that makes you rich. Above all, be normal. Right?
Wrong , say 35 leading middle grade and young adult authors. Growing up
is challenging enough; it doesn't have to be complicated by convoluted,
outdated, or even cruel rules, both spoken and unspoken. Parents, peers,
teachers, the media, and the rest of society sometimes have impossible
expectations of teenagers. These restrictions can limit creativity,
break spirits, and demand that teens sacrifice personality for
popularity. In these personal, funny, moving, and poignant essays,
Kathryn Erskine ( Mockingbird ), Matthew Quick ( The Silver Linings
Playbook ), Gary D. Schmidt ( The Wednesday Wars ), Sara Zarr ( Story of
a Girl ), and many others share anecdotes and lessons learned from
their own lives in order to show you that some rules just beg to be
broken.
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