Young Adult Fiction - Social Themes - Violence

This retelling of the classic short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell brings a modern teen into the clutches of an unhinged billionaire to explore the depths of our own humanity. Rain is on the most boring vacation in existence: a sailboat...

"This is one for the ages." --Gayle Forman, author of the #1 bestseller If I Stay "A book everyone should read right now." --The New York Times Book Review "A vital and heartbreaking story that brings together the #MeToo movement, the effects of gun...

2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and...

School has become a prison.No one knows why.There's no way to stop it.Author: Francine ProsePublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 05/11/2004Pages: 330Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 7.20h x 5.00w x 0.76dISBN: 9780060080839Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.4Point Value: 9Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 68888 / AfterReview Citation(s): PW Notes...

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school,...

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their...

From the author of New York Times bestseller None Shall Sleep and a Kirkus 2023 Best YA Book of the Year sequel Some Shall Break - the electrifying third and final instalment in the None Shall Sleep Sequence.Simon Gutmunsson is on the loose...Since the...

"A tightly spun debut that wrestles with many intense ideas and ends with a knife twist that will send readers racing back to the beginning again." --ALA Booklist (starred review)Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myers's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and...

"A tightly spun debut that wrestles with many intense ideas and ends with a knife twist that will send readers racing back to the beginning again." --ALA Booklist (starred review)Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myers's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, Apt Pupil--published in his story collection Different Seasons and made into a movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro--is now available as a stand-alone publication. If you don't believe in the existence of...

As violence continues in his community, a 13-year-old boy must make some difficult choices to set his life on another course. Bang! Guns really sound like that, you know. Bang! And people bleed from everywhere, and blood is redder than you think. And little...

The devastatingly romantic fifth novella in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series, chronicling the events after Imagine Me, the explosive sixth novel.Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath...

Eddie's father, two uncles, and best friend are all dead, and it's a struggle for him not to end up the same way. Violence makes Fresno wallow in tears, as if a huge onion were buried beneath the city. Making an effort to walk...

Jonah knows the culture in the hockey dressing room needs to change. Play fights after practice are one thing, but when Jonah sees a player get seriously hurt and accidentally films the fight, he's put in a tough position. While he's thinking about how...

Read it before you see it! The astonishing series by Patrick Ness that inspired a major motion picture--now in one ready-to-devour boxed set. Dubbed by Publishers Weekly "one of the most important works of young adult science fiction in recent years," the Chaos Walking...

"Powerful, wrenching." -JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down "Raw and gripping." -JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys "A must-read!" -ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME After a traffic stop turns violent at the hands of the police, a young Black teen grapples with racism--and what it...

Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army...

The only thing more dangerous than a king is his heir in this first English translation of the romantic tragedy that inspired the popular TV series from one of China's best-known authors of heartbreak--perfect for readers of Captive Prince and Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation....

An instant New York Times bestseller! "Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape culture, and the vulnerability of young black girls. Groundbreaking, heart-wrenching, and essential reading for all in the #MeToo era." --Dhonielle Clayton, New York...