Young Realistic Fiction

Seventeen-year-old Laurel Graham has a singular, all-consuming ambition in this life: become the most renowned nature photographer and birder in the world. The first step to birding domination is to win the junior nature photographer contest run by prominent Fauna magazine. Her beloved activist and nature-loving grandmother placed when she was a girl. Gran drags Laurel out on a birding expedition where the pair hear a mysterious call that even Gran can’t identify. The pair vow to find out what it is together, but soon after, Gran is involved in a horrible car accident.

If Susie Jamieson can't take a selfie, she checks her reflection in windows, spoons, car chrome - anything available, really. So when her mother gives her an exquisite full-length mirror that once belonged to her grandmother, Sukie is thrilled. So thrilled that she doesn't listen to her mother's warning: "This mirror will be your best friend and worst enemy."

This summer is going to be different. After getting her heart shattered, multiplatinum pop icon Lily Ross is taking herself out of the spotlight and heading to a small island in middle-of-nowhere Maine with her closest friends. She has three months to focus on herself, her music, her new album. Anything but guys.

Samantha Taylor is not your average teenager. From the moment she could speak, her first words were filled with questions of the way things worked around her. With a father who fostered her love of science, mirroring his own, Sam is fascinated with genetics and computer programming, two things that have been known to get her into trouble from time to time. While her eccentricities might make it difficult to make friends at her school, she does have one friend, Charlie, a teenage boy who dreams of one day becoming a paleontologist due to his obsession with all things primordial. Especially ...

Candace used to be the one to take the easy way—but after three seasons working at a crazy amusement park, challenge seems to be her middle name. Then why does the idea of leaving her hometown to attend college on the other side of the country scare her so much? It doesn’t help that her boyfriend, Kurt, and her friend Tamara are both encouraging her to attend the local college and just relax. Or that the more she dreams about her future, the less she sees Kurt being a part of it.

Alice is on her own for the first time. She has no coach. No friends. Not even clothes that meet the Bastille Invitational’s strict dress code. There’s only the steady drumbeat of guilt inside—pressure to make the tournament’s costly expense “worth it” in the wake of Ba’s unexpected passing. But will a win on court justify the price she paid to get here?

Disappearing wasn’t going to be enough…they needed a plan…some answers…and a safe place where they couldn’t be found…and time to figure out what to do next. Years ago, two men prepared for their worst case scenario, hoping their plans would never be needed. Simon Sullivan now has reason to be grateful that he and his brother went to the extreme lengths they did and continued their efforts in all the years since…because the worst they imagined has arrived. It’s the middle of the twenty-third century and while there have been staggering technological and environmental advances...

Some secrets can be dangerous. If I don't find a way to escape mine, I'll be dead soon. The day I fall for flirtatious Brian is the day my life starts to unravel. My friends think I am doing fine, but my smile masks a dark secret, hidden beside other burdens that are tearing me apart inside. No one knows how lonely I am. How the pain is swiftly making me numb to everything. How it's becoming harder to hold onto my faith in God. I've been pretending for so long that the lie protects me from the truth. It's easy to pretend you're happy when you lose someone or when the bullies torment you, or...

A car accident she can’t remember. A boyfriend who stands on the brink of death, and a darkness that seems to be getting closer. One thing is for sure Kat’s life will never be the same. After a tragic accident that she can’t remember, Kat finds herself under suspicion for causing it. The local cops have decided that she’s to blame and they won’t be dissuaded. As if that wasn’t enough, her boyfriend and best friend since she was thirteen, his leukemia has returned. Will her friends pull through and be able to clear up the details about the accident? Will her boyfriend be okay? Or...

If Devin Mack can’t actually fight his father, he’s going to fight everyone he can find on the football field.

Wes’ life has been nothing but one tragedy after another since he went to see a certain game at Yankee Stadium, and it can all be traced back to one man: all-star Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter. Now, he must pay.

Everyone knows Emma. Neesha’s her best friend, Aiden’s her basketball star boyfriend, and Evan’s her shadow, following Emma’s every move. Emma stands out, which is hard to do at Redemption Prep, a school where every student has been handpicked to attend its remote campus in the forest of Utah. So when she goes missing in plain sight during mass, everyone notices. And everyone becomes a suspect, especially at a school with so many rules: Don’t skip mass. Don’t break curfew. Don’t go into the woods.

It takes a big risk in the mixed martial arts arena for 98-pound weakling Johnny to find that real power comes from within. This audiobook is another exciting addition to the Guys Read library.