Sizzlin' Summer Reads: Young Adult Novels @ Fresno State Library

The Summer I Turned Pretty Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

It's Not Summer Without You Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

We'll Always Have Summer The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.

The Hunger Games In Panem, each district is forced to send one boy and one girl to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death. When Katniss Everdeen steps in to take the place of her sister, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Catching Fire Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have won the annual Hunger Games. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta are the faces of that rebellion. As Katniss and Peeta go on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever.

Mockingjay Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels. She must accept responsibility for countless lives in order to change the course of the future of Panem.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes In the Capitol, Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Hunger Games. The once-mighty house of Snow is hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him.

Divergent In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid In her last few weeks at Northern Virginia's elite Chawton School, eighteen-year-old Jemima Kincaid works to up-end its patriarchal traditions and, in the process, finds the freedom she has always sought.

The Fault in our Stars Sixteen-year-old Hazel has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

Ella Enchanted Against a bold tapestry of princes, ogres, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers, Ella's spirited account of her quest to break the curse is a funny and enchanting tale about an unforgettable heroine who is determined to be herself.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before Lara Jean has never openly admitted her crushes. Instead, she wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters.

P.S. I Still Love You Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too.

Always and Forever, Lara Jean Lara Jean is having The Best senior year. And there's still so much to look forward to. Life couldn't be more perfect! At least, that's what Lara Jean thinks...until she gets some unexpected news. Now the girl who dreads change must rethink all her plans - but when your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to?

The Princess Diaries Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

Legend In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

Prodigy June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.

Champion June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic -- and each other -- and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague is outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities.

The Lightning Thief After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

The Sea of Monsters Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.

The Titan's Curse When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened.

The Battle of the Labyrinth Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical. Time is running out as war between the Olympians and the Titan lord Kronos draws near.

The Maze Runner Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

We Were Liars Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

All the Bright Places When Finch and Violet meet at the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the "natural wonders" of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink.

Far from the Tree Grace, a child who was adopted at birth, goes looking for her biological family and finds an older brother and younger sister both of whom were also abandoned. Benway's beautiful story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms.

Eleanor and Park Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds -- smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Twilight When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

New Moon When the Cullens leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

Eclipse Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.

Breaking Dawn Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.

Harry Potter and the Sorcecer's Stone Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Sixteenth Summer Sixteen-year-old Anna falls for Will, a New Yorker visiting her resort island for the summer, but she isn't sure if one summer of love will be worth her heart breaking when he leaves at the end of August.

Broken Hearts, Fences, and other things to Mend Devastated after a painful breakup, Gemma faces a Hamptons summer near a former best friend she wronged years earlier, a risk that compels her to assume a different identity and pursue a relationship with her former friend's brother.

That's Not What Happened In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent or tell the truth.

Red Queen Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard -- a growing Red rebellion -- even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.

What I Carry Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then she meets Francine. And Kira. And Sean. And everything changes.

Bluefish Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide a learning disability, when he meets a remarkable teacher and a sassy classmate with her own secrets.

Cinder As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.

Echo Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century.

Some Kind of Happiness Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.

Places We've Never Been While on a cross-country RV trip with her family, aspiring video game animator Norah reunites with an old friend, prepares for her college interview, and encounters unexpected romance. N

Seven Tears into the Sea Finally free from her controlling parents, Gwen Cook, while helping her grandmother run her Victorian inn on the coast of Northern California, falls in love with a mysterious boy named Jessie who is harboring a dark secret.

We Are All We Have After her mom is taken by ICE, seventeen-year-old Rania's hopes and dreams for the future are immediatly put on hold as she figures out how take care of her younger brother and survive in a country that seems to be closing around them.