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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

Friendship and BetrayalMusicianTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher · 288 pages

Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through

Friendship and BetrayalDual TimelineYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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This Song Will Save Your Life

Leila Sales · 288 pages

MusicianFriendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan · 183 pages

It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who's just walked in to his band's show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City--and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.This he said/she

MusicianFriendship and BetrayalContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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Girl Online

Zoe Sugg · 352 pages

"Penny has a secret. Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love--and capturing every moment

Friendship and BetrayalMusicianContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

John Green, David Levithan · 331 pages

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and D

Friendship and BetrayalContemporary FictionTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

Kody Keplinger · 352 pages

This is about a girl named Bianca and she just learnt that she is the DUFF of her friend group.

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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Shift

Jennifer Bradbury · 256 pages

Friendship and BetrayalDual TimelineTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Vanishing Girls

Lauren Oliver · 343 pages

Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her si

Dual TimelineFriendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The S-Word

Chelsea Pitcher · 320 pages

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Wildlife

Fiona Wood · 385 pages

Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson · 197 pages

"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated

Friendship and BetrayalContemporary FictionYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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The Sea of Tranquility

Katja Millay · 398 pages

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things:

MusicianTeen ProtagonistContemporary FictionMultiple POV
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Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Ann Brashares · 368 pages

“A fun and poignant coming-of-age story," declared Entertainment Weekly of the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares, author of The Here and Now. It’s the summer before the sisterhood departs for college . . . their last real summer together before they head off to start their grown-up lives. It’s the time when Lena, Tibby, Br

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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Since You've Been Gone

Morgan Matson · 464 pages

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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Every Last Word

Tamara Ireland Stone · 400 pages

Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club.

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Fireworks

Katie Cotugno · 344 pages

It was always meant to be Olivia. She was the talented one, the one who had been training to be a star her whole life. Her best friend, Dana, was the level-headed one, always on the sidelines, cheering her best friend along.But everything changes when Dana tags along with Olivia to Orlando for the weekend, where superproducer Guy Monroe is holding auditions for a new singing group, and Dana is dis

MusicianFriendship and BetrayalYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Unbelievable

Sara Shepard · 288 pages

Four pretty little liars' charmed lives have turned into living nightmares. Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars—because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: She's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much. If these girls don't start listening to me, Ha

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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On the Jellicoe Road

Melina Marchetta · 300 pages

Friendship and BetrayalDual TimelineTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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If I Stay

Gayle Forman · 272 pages

*Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says.* Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, an

MusicianYoung AdultDual TimelineTeen Protagonist
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If I Tell

Janet Gurtler

Friendship and BetrayalYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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If Looks Could Kill

Julie Berry · 437 pages

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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All Our Yesterdays

Cristin Terrill · 362 pages

"Em must travel back in time to prevent a catastrophic time machine from ever being invented, while Marina battles to prevent the murder of the boy she loves"--

Friendship and BetrayalDual TimelineTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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#scandal

Sarah Ockler · 416 pages

When pictures of Lucy kissing her best friend's boyfriend emerge on the world of social media, she becomes a social pariah after the scandal rocks the school.

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction

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