RIYL+Graduation

Anderson, Laurie Halse //Catalyst// Barnes, Jennifer Lynn //Fate// Bradley, Alex //24 Girls in 7 Days// Brashares, Ann //Girls in Pants: the third summer of the sisterhood// takes place in the summer after graduation Craft, Elizabeth //Bass Ackwards and Belly Up// Crutcher, Chris //Deadline// Doyle, Larry //I Love You Beth Cooper// (The whole book takes place on graduation night) Green,John //Paper Towns// and //Abundance of Katherines// (Main character is dumped by his 19th girl named Katherine on graduation night, remainder of the books takes place the summer after graduation) Leitch, Will //Catch// (one of my favorite "lesser known" YA books) takes place the summer after graduation and is very much about deciding what you want to do and who you want to be next. Meehl, Brian //Suck It Up// Werlin, Nancy //Double Helix// ( involves graduating and deciding what to do after that (college or working) Posted to YALSABK by Brenda Finn

After Graduation Posted to YALSABK by Shift - Jennifer Bradbury Forever in Blue - Ann Brashares The Vast Fields of Ordinary - Nick Burd 86 Bloomburg Place series - Melody Carlson Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You - Peter Cameron Texas Gothic - Rosemary Clement-Moore Very LeFreak - Rachel Cohn Bass Ackwards and Belly Up - Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain What a Boy Needs - Nyrae Dawn Tam Lin - Pamela Dean Along For the Ride - Sarah Dessen Something Like Normal by Trish Doller Zoology - Ben Dolnick Enchanted Ivy - Sarah Beth Durst Love Story - Jennifer Echolls Battle Dress - Amy Efaw Jerk, California - Jonathan Friezen The Sweetness of Salt - Cecilia Galante Reunited - Hilary Weisman Graham An Abundance of Katherines - John Green The Summer My Life Began - Shannon Greenland Don't Stop Now - Julie Halpern We'll Always Have Summer - Jenny Han Kiss the Morning Star - Elissa Janine Hoole Wanderlove - Kirsten Hubbard The Ivy - Lauren Kunze The Disenchantments - Nina Lacour Catch - Will Leitch The Piper's Son - Melina Marchetta Hold Me Closer, Necromancer - Lish McBride Jessica Darling series - Megan McCafferty Purple Heart - Patricia McCormick Sophomore Switch - Abby McDonald The Nanny Diaries and Citizen Girl - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus Best Friends - Martha Moody Sunrise Over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers Alice on Board - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Surf Mules - G. Neri Black Girl, White Girl - Joyce Carol Oates The Dive From Clausen's Pier - Ann Packer Secret Society Girl and sequels - Diana Peterfreund Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone - Kat Rosenfeld Rainbow Road - Alex Sanchez While He Was Away - Karen Schreck To Timbuktu - Casey Scieszka Act of Grace - Karen Simpson Ghosts of War - Ryan Smithson Anatomy of a Boyfriend - Daria Snadowsky The Fallback Plan - Leigh Stein Irises - Francisco X. Stork Somebody Everybody Listens To - Suzanne Supplee Psych Major Syndrome - Alicia Thompson Putting Makeup on Dead People - Jen Violi Hacking Harvard - Robin Wasserman The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger Long May She Reign - Ellen Emerson White Funny How Things Change - Melissa Wyatt An Off Year by Claire Zulkey I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak Kristi Cates Teen Services Librarian Normal Public Library