Looking for some YA realistic fiction?
Not if I See You First - YA, realistic fiction - The Rules Don't deceive me. Ever. Especially using my blindness. Especially in public. Don't help me unless I ask. Otherwise you're just getting in my way or bothering me. Don't be weird. Seriously, other than having my eyes closed all the time, I'm just like you only smarter.
Parker Grant doesn't need 20/20 vision to see right through you. That's why she created the Rules: Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind, and never take advantage. There will be no second chances. Just ask Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart.
Combining a fiercely engaging voice with true heart, debut author Eric Lindstrom's Not If I See You First illuminates those blind spots that we all have in life, whether visually impaired or not.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before - YA, realistic fiction - What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
A Tragic Kind of Wonderful - YA, realistic fiction, mental health - For sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to keep everyone at arm’s length. And when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to come out and upend her shaky equilibrium.As the walls of Mel’s compartmentalized world crumble, she fears the worst—that her friends will abandon her if they learn the truth about what she’s been hiding. Can Mel bring herself to risk everything to find out?
When Dimple Met Rishi - YA, realistic fiction - WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI, it didn't go at all well -- no big surprise, as Rishi blurted out,"Hello, future wife," and Dimple had absolutely no idea who he was or why he'd say such a crazy thing. While Rishi knew that Dimple would be attending the website and app-development competition, Dimple's family had not let her in on the parents' plan to fix up their teens. To complicate matters even more, Dimple (on her way to Stanford) has absolutely no interest in finding the I.I.H. (Ideal Indian Husband) while Rishi (on his way to MIT) thinks the idea of an arranged marriage might be quite a sensible one. Dimple's determined to never ever have anything to do with Rishi, but then they find themselves partnered up at the competition. A truce ensues as they begin to work together and even venture out on a "non-date." As the opposites begin to attract, they learn how small their differences really are, and Dimple gives Rishi the courage to tell his parents what he really wants to do with his life.
