YA Books That Tackle Tough Issues

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Perfect Peace
Perfect Peace 4.33 avg rating — 10,683 ratings
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Search for Safety (Bluford High, #13)
Search for Safety (Bluford High, #13) 4.45 avg rating — 2,803 ratings
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Little & Lion
Little & Lion 3.80 avg rating — 10,661 ratings
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The Year I Didn't Eat
The Year I Didn't Eat 4.01 avg rating — 1,391 ratings
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Last Lesson
Last Lesson 3.45 avg rating — 474 ratings
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Hell's Hotel
Hell's Hotel 2.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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When You Call My Name
When You Call My Name 4.20 avg rating — 2,843 ratings
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Linked
Linked 4.18 avg rating — 8,531 ratings
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The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley 3.97 avg rating — 7,617 ratings
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The Missing
The Missing 3.48 avg rating — 155 ratings
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History Is All You Left Me
History Is All You Left Me 3.91 avg rating — 77,838 ratings
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Ryan's Bed
Ryan's Bed
by: Tijan
4.23 avg rating — 19,871 ratings
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People Kill People
People Kill People 3.87 avg rating — 6,829 ratings
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Ride or Die
Ride or Die 3.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Ashes (Seeds of America, #3)
Ashes (Seeds of America, #3) 4.34 avg rating — 7,190 ratings
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Rez Rebel
Rez Rebel 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Speak: The Graphic Novel
Speak: The Graphic Novel 4.39 avg rating — 20,750 ratings
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Crystal's House of Queers
Crystal's House of Queers 3.78 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Prom
Prom 3.33 avg rating — 8,924 ratings
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Cures for Heartbreak
Cures for Heartbreak 3.65 avg rating — 678 ratings
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Forge (Seeds of America, #2)
Forge (Seeds of America, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 17,291 ratings
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Everything's Not Fine
Everything's Not Fine 4.24 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Impossible Knife of Memory
The Impossible Knife of Memory 3.91 avg rating — 29,610 ratings
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Muted
Muted 4.04 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
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Twisted
Twisted 3.82 avg rating — 37,320 ratings
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Living Rough
Living Rough 3.61 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
Chains (Seeds of America, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 58,194 ratings
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Tell Me
Tell Me 3.86 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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Fever 1793
Fever 1793 3.93 avg rating — 131,292 ratings
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Take Back the Night (Sweet Valley University, #11)
Take Back the Night (Sweet Valley University, #11) 3.56 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Crank Trilogy
Crank Trilogy 4.65 avg rating — 2,462 ratings
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No Means No (Sweet Valley University, #10)
No Means No (Sweet Valley University, #10) 3.55 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Collateral
Collateral 3.90 avg rating — 3,914 ratings
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When She Hollers
When She Hollers 3.46 avg rating — 534 ratings
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The You I've Never Known
The You I've Never Known 3.94 avg rating — 7,580 ratings
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Something Girl
Something Girl 3.92 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Rumble
Rumble 4.05 avg rating — 10,179 ratings
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Shrink to Fit
Shrink to Fit 4.20 avg rating — 535 ratings
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Triangles
Triangles 3.95 avg rating — 9,964 ratings
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Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones 3.73 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Smoke (Burned, #2)
Smoke (Burned, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 16,907 ratings
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Giftchild
Giftchild 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Tilt
Tilt 4.19 avg rating — 18,358 ratings
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Even if It Kills Me
Even if It Kills Me 3.64 avg rating — 991 ratings
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No Fixed Address
No Fixed Address 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The New David Espinoza
The New David Espinoza 3.76 avg rating — 856 ratings
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Tricks (Tricks, #1)
Tricks (Tricks, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 40,955 ratings
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Viral
Viral 3.34 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Three Good Things
Three Good Things 3.23 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Impulse (Impulse, #1)
Impulse (Impulse, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 81,834 ratings
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Pyro
Pyro 3.23 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Rivals (The Mockingbirds, #2)
The Rivals (The Mockingbirds, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 965 ratings
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The Snowball Effect
The Snowball Effect 3.74 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust
Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust 3.26 avg rating — 175 ratings
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#Lured (#NorthStar #2)
#Lured (#NorthStar #2) 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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#Seen (#NorthStar #1)
#Seen (#NorthStar #1) 4.62 avg rating — 56 ratings
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#Lost (#NorthStar #0.5)
#Lost (#NorthStar #0.5) 4.38 avg rating — 53 ratings
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#Caged (#NorthStar #3)
#Caged (#NorthStar #3) 4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Orchards
Orchards 3.76 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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Amalia: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #14)
Amalia: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #14) 3.69 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Ducky: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #15)
Ducky: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #15) 3.61 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Ducky: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #10)
Ducky: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #10) 3.73 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Amalia: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #9)
Amalia: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #9) 3.72 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Maggie: Diary #2 (California Diaries, #8)
Maggie: Diary #2 (California Diaries, #8) 3.66 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Sunny: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #12)
Sunny: Diary 3 (California Diaries, #12) 4.02 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Sunny: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #6)
Sunny: Diary 2 (California Diaries, #6) 3.72 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Amalia: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #4)
Amalia: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #4) 3.74 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Sunny: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #2)
Sunny: Diary 1 (California Diaries, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 592 ratings
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The Secret Life of It Girls
The Secret Life of It Girls 3.39 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Prank
Prank 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Butterfly Suicide
Butterfly Suicide 4.01 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Way It Hurts
The Way It Hurts 3.56 avg rating — 339 ratings
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23:27
23:27 3.94 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Monster
Monster 3.73 avg rating — 74,195 ratings
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The Drowning of Stephan Jones
The Drowning of Stephan Jones 3.50 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Fast Life
Fast Life 4.45 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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The Mayday Rampage
The Mayday Rampage 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Trouble
Trouble
by: Non Pratt
3.81 avg rating — 4,933 ratings
279.
Blinded by the Light
Blinded by the Light 3.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Because I Am Furniture
Because I Am Furniture 3.83 avg rating — 6,452 ratings
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Street Love
Street Love 3.68 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Burning Blue
Burning Blue 3.80 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
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