Teen Fiction in which the main character connects with a book
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
- Pub Date: 2007
- Middle and high school interest
- See also: Journals
- A teenage girl reads and rereads her late mother's copy of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Call Me Hope by Gretchen Olson
- Pub Date: 2007
- Middle school interest
- See also in Children's Fic: Abuse
- See also in Teen Fic: Abuse, Mother-Daughter Relationship
- Hope, who is trying to cope with a verbally abusive mother, bonds with Anne Frank's diary.
The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard
- Pub Date: 2003
- Adult book with teen interest
- See also in Adult Fic: Kid/Teen Main Character
- After her mother is killed, Wendy reads The Diary of Anne Frank and Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers.
King Dork by Frank Portman
- Pub Date: 2006
- High school interest
- A teen is obsessed with his late father's copy of The Catcher in the Rye.
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
- Pub Date: 2006
- High school interest
- Love doesn't last forever as learned in Judy Blume's Forever.
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
- Pub Date: 2007
- High school interest
- After reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ben decides to campaign to name a street after Malcolm X in his small Idaho town.
Slam by Nick Hornby
- Pub Date: 2006
- High school interest
- See also: Pregnancy & Childbirth
- Sam has read Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder so many times that he feels he knows Tony Hawk.
Love and Lies by Ellen Wittlinger
- Pub Date: 2008
- High school interest
- See also: Losing Virginity
- It's a small part of the book, but Marisol finds first lines for a writing class assignment. She cites Feed, Fair Weather, The Bell Jar, and others.
Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
- Pub Date: 2010
- High school interest
- See also: In the News
- A secret society called the Mockingbirds is created with inspiration from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Pull of Gravity by Gae Polisnar
- Pub Date: 2011
- Middle and high school interest
- Two teens on a search for a friend's long-lost father connect with Of Mice and Men.
The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher
- Pub Date: 2012
- High school interest
- Several teen girls become unlikely friends when their mothers force them into a mother-daughter book club.
Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
- Pub Date: 2017
- Diversity: Asexual protagonist
- See also: Fandom, Blogs/Social Media
- Tash and her friends are adapting Anna Karenina into a web series that suddenly gets internet-famous.
When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A. J. Steiger
- Pub Date: 2018
- High school interest
- Alvie loves animals and the book Watership Down.
The Opposite of Falling Apart by Micah Goode
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