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Holes

Louis Sachar · 240 pages

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green

BullyingRedemption ArcSelf-DiscoveryMiddle Grade
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Before I Fall

Lauren Oliver

BullyingSecond ChancesRedemption ArcSelf-Discovery
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The Son of Neptune

Rick Riordan · 521 pages

Percy is confused. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells wit

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotMiddle GradeMultiple POV
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Dreadful

Caitlin Rozakis · 344 pages

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotRedemption ArcSelf-Discovery
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Touching Spirit Bear

Ben Mikaelsen · 289 pages

Second ChancesRedemption ArcSelf-DiscoveryMiddle Grade
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The Secret History of Us

Jessi Kirby · 276 pages

When Olivia awakes in a hospital bed following a car accident that almost took her life, she can t remember the details about how she got there. She figures the fog is just a symptom of being in a week-long coma, but as time goes on, she realizes she s lost more than just the last several days of her life she s lost her memory of the last four years. Gone is any recollection of starting or graduat

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotSelf-DiscoveryTeen Protagonist
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Send

Patty Blount · 291 pages

All Dan wants for his senior year is to be invisible. This is his last chance at a semi-normal life. Nobody here knows who he is. Or what he's done. But on his first day at school, instead of turning away like everyone else, Dan breaks up a fight. Because Dan knows what it's like to be terrorized by a bully. He used to be one. Dan tries to get through his senior year without attracting any attent

Redemption ArcSecond ChancesBullyingTeen Protagonist
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Beastly

Alex Flinn · 320 pages

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright — a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever — ruined — unless I can break the spell.Yes, the spell, the one the wit

Redemption ArcBullyingSelf-DiscoveryTeen Protagonist
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Crash

Jerry Spinelli · 162 pages

Take a look behind the bully in this modern classic from Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli that packs a punch. And don't miss the highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday. Cocky seventh-grade super-jock Crash Coogan got his nickname the day he used his first football helmet to knock his cousin Bridget flat on her backside. And he has been running over people ever since, especially Penn Webb,

BullyingRedemption ArcMiddle GradeAthlete
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce · 355 pages

Harold Fry has recently retired and now, he doesn't do very much. Even mowing the lawn, like his wife Maureen tells him to do, seems too much work for him. When, one day, he recieves a lettre in a pink envelope, this lazyness changes. In it, his collegue from long time ago, Queenie Hennessy, tells him she is going to die soon from a cancer in a hospice at the other end of England. Harold, at first

Redemption ArcSecond ChancesSelf-DiscoveryFriendship and Betrayal
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The Julian Chapter

R.J. Palacio

Redemption ArcBullyingSelf-DiscoveryMiddle Grade
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Gabrielle Zevin · 296 pages

After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotSelf-DiscoveryTeen Protagonist
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The Lost Planet

Rachel Searles · 379 pages

Waking up on a distant planet, Chase Garrety is horrified to learn that he has no memory of his life and finds himself under the protection of a mysterious benefactor who requires him to complete an important mission before time runs out.

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotMiddle GradeTeen Protagonist
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Treasures of the Snow

Patricia St. John · 240 pages

Redemption ArcSecond ChancesBullyingMiddle Grade
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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

BullyingSelf-DiscoveryMiddle GradeTeen Protagonist
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Never Never

Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher · 400 pages

No 1 New York Times bestselling author of Hopeless joins forces with the New York Times bestselling author of Mud Vein. Together, they have created a gripping, romantic tale unlike any other. "How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you've never met." Charlize Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fo

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotMultiple POVTeen Protagonist
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Man Walks Into a Room

Nicole Krauss · 248 pages

"A man is found wandering the desert outside Las Vegas. The cards in his wallet identify him as Samson Greene, a Columbia University English professor last seen leaving campus eight days ago. Thirty-six years old, with a wife, Anna, and a dog, Frank. But Samson doesn't even recognize his own name, and by the time Anna has make her way across the country to pick him up, doctors have discovered a ch

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotSelf-DiscoveryMale Lead
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The one plus one

Jojo Moyes · 480 pages

Second ChancesBullyingMultiple POVTeen Protagonist
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Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion · 349 pages

R is having a no-life crisis -- he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he'd rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization. And then he meets a girl. First as his captive, then his r

Amnesiac ProtagonistRedemption ArcSelf-DiscoveryTeen Protagonist
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A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks · 240 pages

There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the s

Redemption ArcBullyingSelf-DiscoveryTeen Protagonist
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The Song Remains the Same

Allison Winn Scotch · 322 pages

Waking up in the hospital as one of two survivors of a horrifying plane crash, Nell struggles to recover from her ensuing amnesia with the help of family, friends, and memory-jogging music before realizing that the stories she is being told do not feel accurate.

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotSelf-DiscoveryAccident Survival
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Paradise

Simone Elkeles · 290 pages

YA. Love stories. Leaving Paradise: Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad -her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares has been cancelled. After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb's free if

Second ChancesRedemption ArcTeen ProtagonistMultiple POV
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The Maze Runner

James Dashner · 375 pages

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade--a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone do

Amnesiac ProtagonistAmnesia PlotTeen ProtagonistMale Lead

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