ALA 2020 Teens' Top Ten Best FictionLike this list

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• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

  Philippe, Ben,

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  After his mother gets a new job as a professor at the University of Texas, Norris, a Black French Canadian who has lived in Montreal his whole life, has to adjust to high school in Austin, Texas.

• Girls on the Verge

  Waller, Sharon Biggs, 1966-

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  After learning she is pregnant from her first sexual encounter, Camille is forced to make a decision. When she runs out of options in her Texas hometown, she, Annabelle, and her disapproving best friend, Bea, set off on a road trip to get an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heroine

  McGinnis, Mindy,

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  After Mickey Catalan, a star athlete, is sidelined by a car crash, she relies on pain medicine to help her recover faster. When she discovers that it isn't enough, Mickey spirals out of control, and her need for relief leads her to lie, steal, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like a Love Story

  Nazemian, Abdi,

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  Three teens—an Iranian youth hiding his sexuality for fear of death, an openly gay photographer, and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle—all find love, along with their voices, as activists in 1989 New York during the height of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lovely War

  Berry, Julie, 1974-

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  Aphrodite leads her legal self-defense in front of Hephaestus and Ares to justify her infidelity. Her proof? The love stories—that she helped create—of two couples during WWI. When her tale is done, both lives and love will be different in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Come Up

  Thomas, Angie,

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  Bri, an aspiring rapper who wants to step out of the shadow of her famous but dead father, helps her family survive after her mother loses her job.

• Patron Saints of Nothing

  Ribay, Randy,

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  After Jay, a Filipino American high school senior gets word that his once-close cousin and pen pal Jun is dead, he travels to the Philippines to uncover the truth.

• Pet

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  Pet lives in a world without monsters, or so she thinks. After a monster shows itself to her, she must work to uncover the secrets her world has been hiding and to protect people she loves.

• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

  Petrus, Junauda,

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  After Audre’s relationship with a young woman is exposed, her mother sends her away from Trinidad to live with her father in Minneapolis. There she connects with Mabel, who is suffering from a life-threatening illness. Told in alternating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• With the Fire on High

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  As both a senior in high school and a mother, Emoni must balance her last year at school with her culinary aspirations, as well as also her obligations to her daughter and grandmother. When Malachi and a new cooking elective enter the picture,…Read moreRead more of this annotation