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The House of Tomorrow

Peter Bognanni · 354 pages

Punk SubcultureComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Tithe

Holly Black · 320 pages

Young adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows.

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Zero

Tom Leveen · 296 pages

After graduating from a Phoenix, Arizona, high school, aspiring artist Amanda "Zero" Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, her falling out with her best friend, and her parents' personal problems.

Punk SubcultureComing of AgeYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Ballads of Suburbia

Stephanie Kuehnert

Ballads are the kind of songs that Kara McNaughton likes best. Not the clichéd ones where a diva hits her dramatic high note or a rock band tones it down a couple of notches for the ladies, but the true ballads: the punk rocker or the country crooner reminding their listeners of the numerous ways to screw things up. In high school, Kara helped maintain the "Stories of Suburbia" notebook, which con

Punk SubcultureComing of AgeYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Diary of a Chav

Grace Dent

Fifteen-year-old Shiraz Bailey Wood's days are filled with hanging around outside Claire's Accessories, her parents work crap jobs, and her school is pretty much loser central. But this loveable British dreamer with a brain and a heart of gold is beginning to feel there might be a lot more to life than minimum wage and the bling of a souped-up car.

Coming of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Human Punk

John King · 352 pages

Summary:For fifteen year old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae, disco, stolen cars, cut-throat gangs, and a job picking cherries for the gypsies. Life is sweet until hes beaten up and thrown in the Grand Union canal with his best friend, Smiles. Fast forward to 1988 and Joe is heading home on the Trans-Siberian Express after three years working in a Hong Kong

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Blue Monday Volume 2: Absolute Beginners

Chynna Clugston Flores · 128 pages

Punk SubcultureTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Nana, Vol. 1

Ai Yazawa · 192 pages

Punk SubcultureComing of AgeContemporary FictionSeries Starter
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Hairstyles of the Damned

Joe Meno · 270 pages

Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest, true-life depiction of growing up punk on Chicago's south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism, and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend, Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. Based on the actual events surrounding a Chicago high school's

Punk SubcultureComing of AgeYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Elsewhere

Will Shetterly · 248 pages

Ron, a teenage runaway, comes of age among the punk elves and humans of Bordertown, a run-down city on the border between the real world and the magic world of Faerie.

Punk SubcultureComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Alice in the Know

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 320 pages

Summer before 11th Grade (Alice gets a part-time job at the mall.)

Coming of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Beige

Cecil Castellucci · 313 pages

Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend.

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Dairy Queen

Catherine Gilbert Murdock · 275 pages

After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty

Jenny Han · 304 pages

This book is fresh fun and exciting. 15 year Belly Conklin is enjoying another summer with the people that she loves in Cousins, a place she's been going to since she was a baby! The fishers, Aka Jerimiah and Conrad, are finally grown up, and Belly feels like she can fit in aswell. Belly would be turning 16 this year, as now she feels as if she can fit in with the boys. She thinks the summer will

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All-American Girl

Meg Cabot · 288 pages

A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.

Coming of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Second Helpings

Megan McCafferty · 349 pages

Coming of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Becoming Me

Melody Carlson

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Including Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Nick Vaccaro · 277 pages

First semester of 10th Grade (Sylvia and Ben get married. Alice contemplates the value of social customs.)

Coming of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Seraphina

Rachel Hartman · 465 pages

In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.

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Just Listen

Sarah Dessen · 377 pages

Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything" — at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store. This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong. Tall, dark, and mu

Coming of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Crank

Ellen Hopkins · 537 pages

Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for her mind, her soul---her life.

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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Louise Rennison · 247 pages

Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

Coming of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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This Song Will Save Your Life

Leila Sales · 288 pages

Coming of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli · 192 pages

A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity--and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Ages 12+ Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out--under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes--for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Star

Coming of AgeYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction

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