Y Fiction

All the Broken Pieces
Ann E. Burg
Y FIC BUR

Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.

subjects: Vietnam War, Novels in Verse, Vietnamese Americans, Adoption

Broken Soup
Jenny Valentine
Y FIC VAL

A photographic negative and two surprising new friends become the catalyst for healing as fifteen-year-old Rowan struggles to keep her family and her life together after her brother's death.

subjects: Grief, Problem Families, London (England)

Burn My Heart
Beverly Naidoo
Y FIC NAI

Two boys--one white, one black--share an uneasy friendship in Kenya in the 1950s, a country shaken by a rebellion of Africans against white landowners, but suspicions and accusations are escalating, and an act of betrayal could change everything.

subjects: Friendship, Betrayal, Revolutions, Race Relations, Torture, Crimes Against Humanity, Historical Fiction

Fire
Kristin Cashore
Y FIC CAS

In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.

subjects: Magic, Extrasensory Perception, Imaginary Wars and Battles, Fantasy, Beauty, Monsters, Banishment

Liar
Justine Larbalestier
Y FIC LAR

Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.

subjects: Honesty, Werewolves

Lips Touch: Three Times
Laini Taylor
Y SS TAY

Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.

subjects: Kissing, Supernatural, Short Stories

Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork
Y FIC STO

Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mail room of a corporate law firm.

subjects: Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Interpersonal Relations

Purple Heart
Patricia McCormick
Y FIC MAC

While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.

subjects: Iraq War - 2003, Soldiers, Hospitals, Brain Damage, Street Children, Memory

Silver Phoenix
Cindy Pon
Y FIC PON

With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.

subjects: Supernatural, Voyages and Travels, Fathers and Daughters, China

When the Whistle Blows
Fran Cannon Slayton
Y FIC SLA

Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers.

subjects: Railroads, Family Life, Country Life, West Virginia