After Graduation: A Teen Fiction Booklist

 It's graduation season!  Seniors are planning their futures and cramming in one last summer of fun before adulthood.  This week, I'm sharing stories about what happens after graduation.  Here are a few of my favorites . . . .

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, she gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce.

Shift by Jennifer Bradbury

When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between by Jennifer E. Smith

High school sweethearts Clare and Aidan spend the night before they leave for college reminiscing about their relationship and deciding whether they should stay together or break up.

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

More Books --

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey

Every Moment After by Joseph Moldover

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

The Foreseeable Future by Emily Adrian

Freshmen by Tom Ellen
Gap Life by John Coy

Girls Like Us by Gail Giles

Inexcusable by Chris Lynch

Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan

Kill All Happies by Rachel Cohn

Me Myself & Him by Christopher Tebbetts

Say Yes Summer by Lindsey Roth Culli

Start Here by Trish Doller

Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian

Summer of '69 by Todd Strasser

The Summer of Us by Cecilia Vinesse

Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through June 11, 2021.

Missing!

This week, I'm sharing some teen books featuring missing kids.  Here's some of my favorites . . . .

Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things by Kate Burak
A new girl in Amherst, Massachusetts, comes to terms with her mother's suicide and her best friend's disappearance with the help of Emily Dickinson's poetry--and her dress.

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal
When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the interest of his classmate Ginger Boltinghouse, the two find themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in their hometown.

Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.

Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
Flynn's girlfriend is missing, and people are suspecting him of knowing something, so he struggles to uncover her secrets as he must also face the truth about himself.


More Stories of the Missing --
At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson
The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Crossing Montana by Laura Torres
The Leaf Reader by Emily Arsenault
The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude
The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer
The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos
The Night She Disappeared by April Henry
Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
Panic by Sharon Draper
Period 8 by Chris Crutcher
Pretending to Be Erica by Michelle Painchaud
She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick
Skink No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen
Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten

Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through September 1, 2017.