Teen Fiction involving Big Life Decisions
Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell
- Pub Date: 2013
- Middle School interest
- Princess Tilda has to decide if she will return to her kingdom to rule or let her cousin take over.
Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
Pregnant Pause by Han Nolan
Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale
- Pub Date: 2012
- High school interest
- See also: Secrets
- I wrote about it: What Would You Do?
- Rosie has to decide whether or not to be tested for Huntington's Disease.
None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
- Pub Date: 2015
- High school interest
- When Kristin learns that she is intersex, she has to decide about surgery and identity.
On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis
- Pub Date: 2016
- High school interest
- See also: Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic
- Denise has to decide if she will take the spot offered on a spaceship leaving earth as a comet is about to hit or stay with her family (or maybe try to sneak them on the ship?).
A World Away by Nancy Grossman
- Pub Date: 2012
- High school interest
- See also: Religion
- An Amish teen spends a summer working as a nanny for a non-Amish family. Will she return to the Amish life at the end of the summer?
Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu
- Pub Date: 2015
- Middle and High school interest
- See also: Religion
- A girl in a quiverful family questions her family's beliefs and lifestyle.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Pub Date: 2016
- High school interest
- See also: Trust No One, Mentors, Competition
- Citra and Rowan each have to decide whether they will take the Scythe apprenticeship. They face many decisions and moral dilemmas along the way.
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
- Pub Date: 2017
- High school interest
- See also: In the News, Extended Family
- Fabiola is approached by the police about informing on her cousins and friends criminal activity.
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
- Pub Date: 2017
- High school Interest
- See also: Past & Present, Medication & Therapy, Stepparents
- Suzette has to decide whether she will tell anyone that her brother has stopped taking his medication. She also has to decide whether she will go back to boarding school or stay home.
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Pub Date: 2017
- High school interest
- Will has to decide whether he will avenge his brother's death or not.
Save the Date by Morgan Matson
- Pub Date: 2018
- High school interest
- See also: Marriage/Weddings, Siblings
- Charlie has to decide where she is going to go for college.
No Shame No Fear by Ann Turnbull
- Pub Date: 2004
- Middle/High School Interest
- See also: Religion, Multiple Narrators, Historical Fiction
- In the mid-1600's, William converts to the Quaker religion and has to decide how he will tell his father and what he will do when he is cut off from his family.
Seeking Eden by Ann Turnbull
- Pub Date: 2012 (in the UK)
- High school interest
- Sequel to: Forged in the Fire
- See also: Historical, Religion
- Josiah, a young Quaker, struggles with the slavery her encounters in the New World.
Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennet
- Pub Date: 2018
- High school interest
- See also: Stepparents
- Zorie has to decide whether she will tell her mom that she knows her dad has cheated.
The Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin
- Pub date: 2012
- High school interest
- 1926 Minnesota
- See also: Set in MN, Historical
- Garnet spends a summer with distant family and decides what she wants from life.
American Panda by Gloria Chao
The Beauty of the Moment by Tanaz Bhathena
Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
- Pub date: 2019
- Middle or high school interest
- See also: Forbidden Romance
- Miriam lives in a small town and doesn't know what she wants for her future. Stay or leave?
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