I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

Elle Thornton

Tags: coming-of-age race-relations north-carolina young-adult-fiction military-history historic-fiction

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All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.

Nathalie M. Leblanc

Tags: adventure fantasy magic young-adult-fiction fairies-faeries

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Why am I not good enough?

At least he loves
Darren and Yaicha
in some way

even if it's horrible,
he shows them attention

and I am furniture
I get nothing
nothing
nothing
no thing

Thalia Chaltas

Tags: ya abuse young-adult-fiction

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Then
why don't I tell on him?

If they don't,
why don't I?

Because.

Because I am safe this way,
silent
unnoticed.

Thalia Chaltas

Tags: young-adult abuse young-adult-fiction

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Are we talking hell hounds and flames here?" Des asked, pacing at the end of our beds.

I repeated the question and gave a heaving sigh of relief when Jameson said I had the wrong idea.

"He's going to 'lead us into temptation.'"

"That doesn't sound so bad," Des said with a cheeky grin.

Terri Clark

Tags: romance angels paranormal demons teen young-adult-fiction terri-clark hollyweird

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You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.

Kimberly Sabatini

Tags: young-adult-fiction

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I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?

Susan Shaw

Tags: abuse young-adult-fiction ya-saves

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Oh my God, cheese burn!

Susan Bischoff

Tags: ya young-adult-fiction young-adult-urban-fantasy

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But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

Caroline B. Cooney

Tags: horror young-adult young-adult-fiction young-adult-horror

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My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

Maggie Stiefvater

Tags: young-adult-fiction maggie-stiefvater scorpio-races water-horses

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