The 80's Are Back! (Teen Fiction)

Updated April 19, 2023
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Paper covers rock
Hubbard, Jenny.
Paper Book
Michael L. Printz Honor Award-winning author of And We Stay Jenny Hubbard's powerful debut novel.   "One of the best young adult books I've read in years."--PAT CONROY   "Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its...
We are lost and found
Dunbar, Helene
Audiobook
A poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting, story in the tradition of The Perks of Being a Wallflower about three friends coming-of-age in the early 1980s as they struggle to forge their own paths in the face of fear of the unknown. Michael is content to live in the shadow of his best friends, James...
The Carrie diaries
Bushnell, Candace.
Paper Book
The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of one of the most iconic characters of our generation. Before Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was a small-town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up...
The incredible true story of the making of the Eve of destruction
Brashear, Amy
Paper Book
Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that's impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a...
Like a love story
Nazemian, Abdi
Paper Book
Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time "A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves."--Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and...
The liars of Mariposa Island
Mathieu, Jennifer
Audiobook
From the author of Moxie comes a stunning novel told in three voices about the lies families tell to survive. Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island. That's when Elena Finney gets to escape her unstable, controlling mother by babysitting for their two children. And...
The agony of Bun O'Keefe
Smith, Heather
Paper Book
Little Miss Sunshinemeets Roomin this quirky, heartwarming story of friendship, loyalty and discovery. It's Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe, unsanitary house. Her mother is a compulsive hoarder, and Bun has...
Bitter melon
Chow, Cara
Paper Book
Frances has one job in life: to get into Berkeley and become a doctor so that her mother's ambitions will be realized. And Frances doesn't think there's anything wrong with that, until the day she accidentally steps into a speech class and begins to discover a talent her mother wouldn't approve of....
Eleanor & Park
Rowell, Rainbow.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Best Seller! "Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book Review Bono met his...

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