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The Girl Next Door

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Send Me a Sign

Tiffany Schmidt · 400 pages

Superstitious before being diagnosed with leukemia, high school senior Mia becomes irrationally dependent on horoscopes, good luck charms, and the like when her life shifts from cheerleading and parties to chemotherapy and platelets, while her parents obsess and lifelong friend Gyver worries.

Terminal IllnessFriends to LoversEmotionalTeen Protagonist
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When You Were Mine

Rebecca Serle · 352 pages

Seniors Rosaline Caplet and Rob Monteg, neighbors and best friends, have finally become a couple at their Southern California high school, but when Rosie's estranged cousin Juliet moves back into town and pursues Rob in an unstable, needy, and vindictive manner, Rosie starts to worry not just about Rob's emotions, but about his very life.

NeighborsFriends to LoversEmotionalYoung Adult
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It's Not Summer Without You

Jenny Han · 288 pages

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

Friends to LoversTerminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotional
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Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen · 427 pages

"Ruby, where is your mother?"Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she's been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.That's how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasn't seen in ten years, and Cora's husband Jamie, whose down-to-earth demeanor makes it hard for Ruby to believe he founded the most popular netw

NeighborsEmotionalFriends to LoversYoung Adult
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Kissing Max Holden

Katy Upperman · 304 pages

NeighborsFriends to LoversTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Invincible

Amy Reed

Terminal IllnessEmotionalYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Side Effects May Vary

Julie Murphy · 335 pages

"Alice is ready to go out in a blaze of glory, but then she discovers she's in remission from cancer and she must deal with all of the mistakes she's made and the people she's hurt"-- Alice is ready to go out in a blaze of glory, but then she discovers she's in remission from cancer and she must deal with all the mistakes she's made and the people she's hurt. The plot contains profanity and sex

Terminal IllnessFriends to LoversEmotionalYoung Adult
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Second Chance Summer

Morgan Matson · 474 pages

"Taylor Edwards' family might not be the closest-knit--everyone is a little too busy and overscheduled--but for the most part, they get along just fine. Then Taylor's dad gets devastating news, and her parents decide that the family will spend one last summer all together at their old lake house in the Pocono Mountains. Crammed into a place much smaller and more rustic than they are used to, they

Terminal IllnessEmotionalYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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I Want to Live

Lurlene McDaniel · 128 pages

Terminal IllnessEmotionalYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Change of Heart

Shari Maurer · 224 pages

When sixteen-year-old Emmi Miller learns she will die without a heart transplant, she becomes aware of all she has been taking for granted, from her parents' love to her soccer ability, but gains strength from new friend Abe.

Terminal IllnessEmotionalYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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The Boys Next Door

Jennifer Echols · 336 pages

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Her Name in the Sky

Kelly Quindlen

Hannah has big plans for senior year: football games, Mardi Gras parties, and spring break on the beach with her tight-knit group of friends. No drama, no detours. Just a year to remember. Falling for another girl—her best friend, Baker—was not part of the plan. Hannah knows she should date Wally, the earnest, dependable boy her sister is always teasing her about. She should be happy when Cl

Friends to LoversEmotionalTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Lola and the Boy Next Door

Stephanie Perkins · 368 pages

Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.

Friends to LoversNeighborsYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon · 320 pages

The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.

NeighborsEmotionalYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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How It Ends

Laura Wiess

Sixteen-year-old Hanna learns about life, love, happiness, and pain when she finally starts dating the boy she has had a long-time crush on, and when she discovers the complicated truth about her beloved Gran.

Terminal IllnessEmotionalTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Terms of Endearment

Larry McMurtry · 410 pages

Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma’s hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer.

Terminal IllnessNeighborsEmotionalContemporary Fiction
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Underwater

Marisa Reichardt · 288 pages

Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been mi

NeighborsEmotionalYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Sign Language

Amy Ackley

Teenaged Abby must deal with her feelings about her father's cancer and its aftermath while simultaneously navigating the difficult problems of growing up.

Terminal IllnessEmotionalYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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After the Rain

Norma Fox Mazer · 290 pages

At fifteen, Rachel is a worrier. She worries about whether her family understands her, whether her friends like her, and whether she'll get her first kiss before she turns sixteen. And she worries about whether she can handle having a real boyfriend if he does come along. But it takes a dying old man -- her grandfather -- who has never been easy for anyone to handle, to show Rachel she has very

Terminal IllnessEmotionalTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green · 318 pages

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Terminal IllnessEmotionalYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Life in a Fishbowl

Len Vlahos · 332 pages

Fifteen-year-old Jackie is determined to reclaim her family's privacy and dignity by ending a reality television program about her father's terminal brain tumor.

Terminal IllnessEmotionalTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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River Boy

Tim Bowler · 142 pages

Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.

Terminal IllnessEmotionalTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Needing Her

Molly McAdams

She’s the Girl Next Door Maci Price isn’t really into relationships. Having four very protective older brothers has always made having a boyfriend very difficult, anyway. But her friend is set on finding her the perfect guy – and thinks the mysterious Connor Green is the perfect pick. He’s Her Brother’s Best Friend Connor Green is trying to find himself again. He loved then lost and it’s

NeighborsFriends to LoversEmotionalContemporary Fiction
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Chanda's Secrets

Allan Stratton · 193 pages

Terminal IllnessEmotionalTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult

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