RIYL+Edgy


 * Edgy Novels**

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher 33 Snowfish byRApp The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexi Acceleration by McNamee Almost Home by Blank After,’ by Amy Efaw America by Frank Autobiography of my dead brother The Beast by Walter Dean Myers Beauty Queen by Glovach Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas Boot Camp by Strasser Breathing Underwater by Flinn /burn by Phillips The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon Candy by Kevin Brooks Can’t get there from here ClubMeds Chaising Tail Lights by Jones Cut by Patricia McCormick The Death of Jayson Porter Exit here by myers Far From You by Schroeder Fat Kid Rules he World A Fast and Brutal Wing by Kathleen Johnson First Part Last by Johnson Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Gone I Heart You You Haunt Me I Know It's Over by C K Kelly Inexcusable by Lynch Jude by Morgenroth Keesha’s House by Frost Hate List by: Jennifer Brown Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx Hold Still by: Nina LaCour Leaving Dirty Jersey by Saliant Living at the Edge of the World by Tina S. and Bolnick Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott Love You Hate You Miss You by Scott Nailed by Jones The Parallel Universe of Liars Perks of Being a Wallflower by Chbosky Planet Pregnancy by Linda Oatman High Push by Sapphire Rash by Hautman Rats Saw God by Thomas Ricochet by Gonzalez The rules of survival Runaway by Van Draanen Shattering Glass Sister Slam and the poetic motormouth roadtrip by Linda Oatman High Sold by Patricia McCormick Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Splintering by  Errin Corrigan The spectacular now St. Iggy by Going Story of a Girl by Zarr Street Pharm by Allison Van Diepen Suicide Notes by Ford Target by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson Theories of Relativity by Haworth-Attard Things Change by Jones Tweak: by Sheff Tyrell by Coe Booth You don’tknow me by Klass //You Know Where To Find Me// by Rachel Cohn Waiting for Normal What Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson Wrecekd by Frank

Authors: Patrick Jones Chris Crutcher Alex Flinn ’s Books Kevin Brooks Plum-Ucci Gail Giles

Compiled by Alison Paulette YALSA BK 04/08/09 Updated from YALSA BK 12/15/2009

Hard Love" by Ellen Wittlinger comes to mind. I just finished reading "Beautiful" by Amy Reed - described as a latter-day "Go Ask Alice " Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Beautiful by Amy Reed, Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly, Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert. All three deal with alternative kids and drug use.   Leaving Dirty Jersey (non-fiction) by James Salant       Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams Cut by McCormick        Compromised by Heidi Ayarbe       Adoff, Jaime. The death of Jayson Porter. New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun Books, 2008. Print. Alexie, Sherman. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian. New York: Little, Brown, 2007. Print. anonymous, Author. Go ask Alice. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971. Print. Asher, Jay. Th1rteen r3asons why : a novel. New York: Razorbill, 2007. Print. Blank, Jessica. Almost home. New York: Hyperion, 2007. Print. Brooks, Kevin. Candy. New York: Push/Scholastic, 2005. Print. Cameron, Peter. Someday this pain will be useful to you. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Print. Chaltas, Thalia. Because I am furniture. New York: Viking, 2009. Print. Chbosky, Stephen. The perks of being a wallflower. New York: MTV Books/Pocket Books, 1999. Print. Efaw, Amy. After. New York: Viking, 2009. Print. Flinn, Alexandra. Breathing underwater. New York: HarperTempest, 2001. Print. Frank, E R. America : a novel. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002. Print. Frost, Helen. Keesha's house. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Print. Giles, Gail. Shattering Glass. Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2002. Print. Glovach, Linda. Beauty queen. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Print. Going, Kelly. Fat kid rules the world. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. Print. Going, Kelly L. Saint Iggy. Orlando ; FL: Harcourt, 2006. Print. Grant, Michael. Gone. New York: HarperTeen, 2008. Print. Hautman, Pete. Rash. New York: Simon Pulse, 2006. Print. Johnson, Angela. The first part last. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. Print. Johnson, Kathleen J. A fast and brutal wing. Brookfield, Conn.: Roaring Brook Press, 2004. Print. Jones, Patrick. Chasing tail lights. New York: Walker, 2007. Print. ---. Nailed. New York: Walker, 2006. Print. McCormick, Patricia. Cut. New York: Push/Scholastic, 2000. Print. ---. Sold. New York: Hyperion Books, 2006. Print. McNamee, Graham. Acceleration. New York: Wendy Lamb Books, 2003. Print. Morgenroth, Kate. Jude. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004. Print. Myers, Walter D. Autobiography of my dead brother. New York: HarperTempest, 2005. Print. ---. The beast. New York: Scholastic, 2003. Print. Rapp, Adam. 33 snowfish. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2003. Print. Runyon, Brent. The burn journals. New York: Knopf, 2004. Print. S, Tina, and Jamie Pastor Bolnick. Living at the edge of the world : a teenager's survival in the tunnels of Grand Central Station. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Print. Sapphire. Push : a novel. New York: Vintage, 2009. Print. Scott, Elizabeth. Living dead girl. New York: Simon Pulse, 2008. Print. Strasser, Todd. Boot camp. New York: Simon, 2007. Print. ---. Can't get there from here. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004. Print. Tharp, Tim. The spectacular now. New York: Knopf, 2008. Print. Thomas, Rob. Rats saw God. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996. Print. Werlin, Nancy. The rules of survival. New York: Dial Books, 2006. Print. Zarr, Sara. Story of a girl : a novel. New York: Little, Brown, 2007. Print.