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Getting into College

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Getting into College in Teen Fiction

 

Things Hoped For by Andrew Clements

  • Pub Date: 2006
  • Middle and high school interest 
  • See also: Music, Set in NYC
  • Two dedicated young musicians are preparing for college auditions.

 

Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. LeGuin

  • Pub Date: 1976
  • High school interest 
  • Two high school seniors strike up a friendship as they make college decisions.

 

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson

  • Pub Date: 2002
  • High school interest
  • See also: Senior Year 
  • Kate faces difficult circumstances--including that she may not get into the college of her choice.

 

The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr

  • Pub Date: 1997
  • Adult novel of interest to teens 
  • Two high school athletes are courted by colleges.

 

Wild Roses by Deb Calletti

  • Pub Date: 2005
  • High school interest
  • See also: Stepparents 
  • A subplot in this novel about mental illness talks about a young musician's attempt to get into a prestigious music school.

 

Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught

  • Pub Date: 2007
  • High school interest
  • See also: Writers, Beauty & Self Image
  • Jamie needs a journalism scholarship to get into college.

 

Bitter Melon by Cara Chow

 

This Girl is Different by J.J. Johnson

  • Pub Date: 2011
  • High School Interest
  • See also: Fish Out of Water, Senior Year 
  • Evie plans to attend Cornell for their social justice program. 

 

Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley

  • Pub Date: 2016 
  • High school interest
  • See also: Goal Oriented Girls, Multiple Narrators 
  • Lisa decides that she will cure agoraphobic Solomon as a way of getting a scholarship for college to study psychology. 

 

Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz

  • Pub Date: 2016
  • Middle and High School interest
  • See also: Senior Year, In the News 
  • Jasmine is in her senior year of high school when she finds out she and her family are undocumented. 

 

 

 

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