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
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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