GEORGIA PEACH BOOKS

2017-2018

All American Boys / Reynolds & Kiely

When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.

Realistic Fiction

Lexile 770

The Anatomical Shape of a Heart / Bennett

• Sparks fly when Beatrix Adams, seventeen, who strives to be amedical illustrator, meets Jack, one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists, but even as Beatrix begins to uncover the secrets that have left Jack so wounded, her own family secrets threaten to tear them apart.

• Contemporary Romance

• Lexile 800

Dumplin’ / Murphy

Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.

Lexile 710

Contemporary Fiction

We Are the Ants / Hutchinson

After the suicide of his boyfriend, Henry deals with depression and family issues, all while wondering if he was really abducted and told he has 144 days to decide whether or not the world is worth saving.

Lexile 800

LGBTQIA, Science fiction

Wolf by Wolf /Graudin

"The first book in a duology about an alternate version of 1956 where the Axis powers won WWII, and hold an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents to commemorate their victory"--.

Lexile 670

Alternative History

Six of Crows / Bardugo

Six dangerous outcasts must learn to work together after they are offered an impossible heist that can save the world from destruction.

Lexile 700

Fantasy Fiction

This Savage Song / Schwab

"As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met. A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the difference between good and evil and the blurry gray area in between"--.

Lexile 830

Urban Fantasy

True Letters from a Fictional Life/ Logan

To help him deal with his inner struggles, James writes letters to the people of his life and locks them away, but when his words are broadcast all over school he needs to decide if he wants to live a life of fiction.

Not yet Lexiled LGBTQIA, realistic fiction

My Lady Jane / Hand, Ashton, Meadows

On the eve of her marriage to a stranger, sixteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey is swept in a conspiracy to usurp the throne from her cousin.

Lexile 760

Historical Fantasy

When We Collided / Lord

Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivifrom herself?

Lexile 730

Code of Honor / Gratz

When Iranian-American Kamran Smith learns that his big brother, Darius, has been labelled a terrorist, he sets out to piece together the codes and clues that will save his brother's life and his country from a deadly terrorist attack.

Lexile 660

Contemporary Fiction

Holding Smoke / Cosimano

John "Smoke" Conlan uses his supernatural ability to travel outside the walls of a juvenile detention center to try to clear his name and help his fellow inmates find redemption.

Not yet Lexiled

Paranormal fiction

Girl Mans Up / Girard

Pen, who looks and acts like a boy, just wants is to be the kind of girl shes always been, but the people in her life have a problem with it? Old-world parents, faltering friendships, and strong feelings toward other girls lead Pen to see that in order to be who she truly wants to be, shell have to man up.

Not yet Lexiled

LGBTQIA, Realistic fiction

Scarlett Epstein Hates it Here / Breslaw

When her beloved television series is abruptly canceled, Scarlett finds herself without an outlet for her fan-fiction, a situation that forces her to experiment with a different form of writing and to explore her real-world relationships.

Not yet Lexiled

Realistic Fiction, First person

The First Time She Drowned / Kletter

Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college, until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.

Not yet Lexiled

Realistic Fiction

The Darkest Corners / Thomas

When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.

Lexile 740

Mystery

Dan vs. Nature / Calame

Follows the story of a teen graphic novel artist whose mother sends him on a survivalist camping trip to bond with his soon-to-be-stepdad, a haphazard journey marked by pranks, his germaphobe best friend, an attractive girl and the loss of their guide.

Lexile 660

Realistic Fiction, Humorous

Girl in Pieces / Glasgow

As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.

Lexile 740

Illuminae / Kaufman and Kristoff

The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all.

Lexile 780

Science Fiction

Labyrinth Lost / Cordóva

"Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back"--.

Lexile 630

Paranormal Fiction

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