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Young Adult Literature

Montgomery Library's guide to literature for young adults

Selected Contemporary Fiction Books

These contemporary fiction books for young adults can be found in the Children's Collection on the main floor of the Montgomery Library.

Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary fiction books tell a realistic story that could happen in today's world.

Find these contemporary fiction books for young adults in the Children's Collection on Montgomery Library's main floor. 

Blackout: even love stories can glow when the lights go out / Dhonielle Clayton and others   PS 490 .B498 2021
Bone Gap / Laura Ruby   PS 490 .R83138 Bon 2015
Be not far from me / Mindy McGinnis   PS 490 .M4784747 Be 2020
The Collectors: Stories / A. S. King (Editor)   PS 490 .C65 2023
Cursed / Karol Ruth Silverstein   PS 490 .S544 2019
The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman / Mari Lowe   PZ 7.1 .L7245 Du 2023
Dig / A.S. King   PS 490 .K5693 2019
Eleanor and Park / Rainbow Rowell   PS 490 .R79613 Ele 2013
Fangirl / Rainbow Rowell   PS 3618 .O8755 F36 2013
Far from the tree / Robin Benway   PS 490 .B4477 Far 2017
The field guide to the North American teenager / Ben Philippe                PS 490 .P5165 Fie 2019
Forever is Now / Mariama J. Lockington   PS 490 .L63 Fo 2023
Gather (Printz Award Honor Book 2024) / Kenneth M. Cadow   PS 490 .C117245 Gat 2023
Gideon Green in black and white / Katie Henry   PS 490 .H4646 Gi 2022
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Printz Award Honor Book 2024) / Shannon Gibney   PS 490 .G5 Gi 2023
Grown: A novel / Tiffany D. Jackson   PS 490 .J353 Gr 2020
A heart in a body in the world / Deb Caletti   PS 490 .C127437 H43 2018
How to make friends with the dark / Kathleen Glasgow   PS 490 .G587 How 2019
I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom / Shannon C. F. Rogers   PS 490 .O4678 I32 2023
I, Claudia / Mary McCoy   PS 490 .C36 I35 2018
I'll give you the sun / Jandy Nelson   PS 490 .N433835 Ill 2014
In the wild light / Jeff Zentner   PS 490 .Z46 In 2021
King and the dragonflies / Kacen Callender   PS 490 .C317 Ki 2020
Kings, queens, and in-betweens / Tanya Boteju   PS 490 .B6755 Ki 2019
Me (Moth) / Amber McBride   PS 490 .M42 Mc 2021
Nigeria Jones / Ibi Aanu Zoboi   PS 490 .Z64 Ni 2023
Only This Beautiful Moment / Abdi Nazemian   PS 490 .N378 On 2023
Patron saints of nothing / Randy Ribay   PS 490 .R5 Pat 2019
Rez Ball / Byron Graves    PS 490 .G7318 Re 2023
Ruby Lost and Found / Christina Li   PZ 7.1 .L523 R89 2023
Saints of the Household / Ari Tison   PS 490 .T5759 Sai 2023
Salt the Water (Printz Award Honor Book 2024) / Candice Iloh   PS 490 .I46 Sal 2023
Spin / Lamar Giles   PS 490 .G39235 Sp 2019
Starfish / Lisa Fipps   PS 490 .F57 St 2021
Tell me how you really feel / Aminah Mae Safi   PS 490 .S2414 Te 2019
There Goes the Neighborhood / Jade Adia   PZ 7.1 .A245 T44 2023
This is my brain in love / I.W. Gregorio   PS 490 .G7415 Thi 2020
We are okay / Nina LaCour   PS 490 .L13577 We 2017
What girls are made of / Elana K. Arnold   PS 490 .A73517 Wh 2017
What I carry / Jennifer Longo   PS 490 .L8634 Wh 2021
Where things come back / John Corey Whaley   PS 495 .W5458 W52 2011
The words we keep / Erin Stewart   PS 490.S7457 Wor 2022
You should see me in a crown / Leah Johnson   PS 490 .J6286 Yo 2020
What happened to Rachel Riley? / Claire Swinarski   PS 3619 .W5677 W43 2023

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