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Cure for the Common Universe

Christian McKay Heidicker

"Jaxon meets the girl of his dreams on the same day that his father ships him off to video game rehab. Now he must earn 1 million therapy points in a week, if he wants to be released from rehab in time for his date"--

Video GamesTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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The Impossible Fortress

Jason Rekulak · 304 pages

Billy Marvin's first love was a computer. Then he met Mary Zelinsky. Do you remember your first love? The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine...The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune . For three teenage boys--Billy, Alf, and Clark--who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women, the magazine

Video GamesTeen ProtagonistContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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He Said, She Said

Kwame Alexander · 333 pages

"When a popular football 'playa' and ladies man and the smartest girl in school lead a school protest, sparks fly as their social media-aided revolution grows"-- Thrown together when they unexpectedly lead a huge social protest, Omar and Claudia find that a little flirting turns to real love. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and violence.

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

Bryan Lee O'Malley · 392 pages

Video GamesContemporary FictionTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 384 pages

In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts *really* feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever ca

Video GamesTeen ProtagonistFirst LoveYoung Adult
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Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Ann Brashares · 400 pages

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again. Carmen: Falls under the spell of a sophisticated college friend for whom a theatrical role means everything and the heritage of the

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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All I Need

Susane Colasanti · 227 pages

When Skye, a hopeless romantic, meets Seth, hurt by a recent break-up, at an end-of-summer party they connect instantly, but their love is tested when she returns high school and he begins to work his way through an Ivy-League college.

Young AdultTeen ProtagonistMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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We Are Watching Eliza Bright

A.E. Osworth · 400 pages

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Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan · 288 pages

Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.

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21 Proms

Lisa Ann Sandell, Will Leitch, Leslie Margolis, E. Lockhart, Aimee Friedman, Libba Bray, Jacqueline Woodson, Ned Vizzini, John Green, Melissa de la Cruz, Holly Black, Brent Hartinger, Rachel Cohn, Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Mlynowski, Billy Merrell, Cecily von Ziegesar, Adrienne Maria Vrettos, Daniel Eh · 298 pages

Sometimes the night of your dreams can be a total nightmare. The prom. It's supposed to be one of the best nights of your life. Or, at least, you're supposed to have a good time. But what if you'd rather be going with your best friend's date than your own? What if a sinister underground society of students has spiked the punch? What if your date turns out to be more of a frog than a prince? Or

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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Girl Saves Boy

Steph Bowe

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The Summer of Firsts and Lasts

Terra Elan McVoy · 427 pages

When teenaged sisters Daisy, Violet, and Calla spend their last summer together at Camp Callanwolde, the decisions they make--both good and bad--bring challenges to their relationship as well as opportunities to demonstrate their devotion to one another.

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We Come Apart

Sarah Crossan, Brian Conaghan · 336 pages

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The Leveller

Julia Durango · 258 pages

Earning money by dragging kids out of the virtual reality gaming world and returning them to their worried parents, bounty hunter Nixy faces the biggest challenge of her career when the game's billionaire developer loses track of his own son.

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Holding Up the Universe

Jennifer Niven · 400 pages

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom’s death, she’s been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now, Libby’s ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for every possib

Young AdultTeen ProtagonistMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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Boys Like You

Juliana Stone · 289 pages

When Monroe Blackwell, who is spending the summer at her grandmother's Louisiana bed-and-breakfast, meets Nathan Everets, who has a court-appointed job there, they share, and begin to recover from, their respective feelings of loss and guilt. When Monroe spends the summer with her grandmother and meets Nathan, they begin to recover from their respective feelings of loss and guilt. The plot contai

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Doomed

Tracy Deebs · 480 pages

Pandora Walker unwittingly unleashes cyber Armageddon on her seventeenth birthday and must play a virtual reality game in order to save the world.

Video GamesTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultRomance
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How to Be Bad

E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle · 336 pages

From the authors of ttyl, Bras & Broomsticks, and The Boyfriend List come three unforgettable characters — and one exhilarating novelVicks is the wild child whose boyfriend has gone suspiciously quiet since he left for college; Mel is the newcomer desperate to be liked; and Jesse will do anything to avoid a life-altering secret. Each one has her own reason for wanting to get the heck out of their

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera · 378 pages

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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The Eye of Minds

James Dashner · 315 pages

"Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out."

Video GamesTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes

Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 224 pages

In this first ever official guide to the bestselling horror video game Five Night at Freddy's, fans and gamers alike can immerse themselves in the characters, locations, game play etc. and try to uncover the secrets and unlock the mysteries kept so hidden within the game itself.

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Gamer Girl

Mari Mancusi

Struggling to fit in after her parents' divorce sends her from Boston to her grandmother's house in the country, sixteen-year-old Maddy forms a manga club at school and falls in love through an online fantasy game.

Video GamesTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Breathless

Lurlene McDaniel · 176 pages

What is the toughest request anyone can be asked to fulfill?Travis Morrison is a champion diver and one of the most popular kids at school. On the first day of summer vacation, while boating on the lake with his friends, Travis attempts a silly stunt dive that goes wrong. He fears he has broken his leg. Instead, his trip to the hospital reveals he has a rare form of cancer, and to save him, the do

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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We All Looked Up

Tommy Wallach · 393 pages

The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary FictionMultiple POV

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