Youngadultfiction Stories

FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Myles Cook is having a rough time. Not only has his mother run off with Jocelyn, her yoga instructor, but Myles and his dad have moved to a tiny rural island on BC's west coast to live in a log cabin. Garcia Island is nothing like Myles' old home in the city; there are no stores, the WiFi is sketchy, and let's face it, the people are strange. There's Clyde, the old guy in the silver airstream trailer who carves erotic demon sculptures, Daisy Archibald, the local coven's high priestess, and Axel Jespersen-a recumbent cyclist and angora goat farmer who is just plain nasty! Finally, there is Norm next door, a man who teaches Myles a little about llamas and a lot about life. Factor in a taxidermy raccoon (Myles' spirit animal?), a first crush, and a whole lot of growing pains, and Myles quickly discovers that truth really is stranger than fiction. But people can be full of surprises, and as the saying goes, you can't always judge a book by its cover. And sometimes, when things are out of your control, the smartest thing you can do is take a deep breath, let go and roll with it. (Well, you can try, right?)

In the city of In the city of Elend, emotions have been illegal for forty-three years. The government distributes Nullen through the water supply, a compound that keeps its citizens in a state of permanent grey calm, and children are raised in Accord Institutes designed to monitor, suppress, and report any flicker of feeling before it can spread. Seventeen-year-old Maren Voss has always been a model citizen. She drinks her water. She files her expressions. She measures a crack in her ceiling and tells herself it means nothing. But when a four-second fragment of forbidden music leaks through a projector in her Archival Studies class, something in Maren shifts, something the Nullen can't quite reach. And when her classmate Cel taps her foot in the silence afterward, Maren realises she is not the only one. What begins as two girls quietly stopping drinking the water becomes something far more dangerous: a network of teenagers learning, for the first time, what it means to feel, to grieve, to hope, to rage, to love, in a world that has decided all of those things are the same as death. The Bureau is watching. The compliance towers never sleep. And Maren is beginning to understand that the most revolutionary act in Elend isn't a weapon or a manifesto. It's a song.

It's 1978, and eighteen-year-old Ruby Bell is desperate to escape Echo Falls, a Canadian prairie town that feels smaller by the day. Stuck living with her overprotective Uncle Em and Uncle Hank, and dreaming of a life beyond the horizon, she hatches a simple plan: graduate high school, empty her savings account, and hit the road in her 1969 Mercury Cyclone with her loyal pit bull, Otto, riding shotgun. But the highway has other ideas. What begins as a straightforward escape soon spirals into a wild cross-country journey filled with strange detours, unexpected danger, and the kind of people who change your life forever. Along the way, Ruby picks up three unlikely travelling companions: Lucy Witt, a heartbroken farm wife; Fintan Hart, a struggling heavy metal musician; and Cleo Lyons, a sharp-tongued drifter hiding secrets of her own. Add a pair of coveted red Chuck Taylors and two deeply unhinged twins to the mix, and Ruby finds herself far from anything she planned. Her journey eventually leads her to Vancouver Island and the Emerald Isle Retreat, a secluded spiritual sanctuary run by the enigmatic Oswald Wise. There, Ruby is forced to confront the question she's been running from all along: what if home isn't a place you leave behind, but something you carry with you? Loosely inspired by The Wizard of Oz, Gasoline Rainbow is a psychedelic coming-of-age road novel about friendship, identity, belonging, and the winding roads that lead us back to ourselves.

When you live in your car the way eighteen-year-old Eddie and his sister, Maya, do, the rules are simple: lay low, trust no one, and always keep plenty of duct tape on hand. But Maya is growing up fast. She's starting to forget how to play the game, and Eddie is finding it harder and harder to keep them both safe from the outside world. When a mistake Maya makes suddenly complicates their fragile existence, Eddie begins to lose his composure. And why wouldn't he? He hasn't had time to confront his own emotional wounds-he's been too busy looking out for his sister. But even in the worst of times, even when it feels like you've hit rock bottom, there is always hope. Told in third-person present tense, interwoven with first-person excerpts from the pages of Eddie's sketchbook, The Picasso Project is a novel about strength, courage, and vulnerability. Ultimately, it explores what can happen when we finally confront our pasts, let them go, and open ourselves up to possibility.

If you could travel through time, would you change the past? As Harika leaves behind her ordinary life and transforms into Sultan Gevher, she finds herself forced to fight against history and fate. Amidst throne struggles, betrayals, and losses, she tries to find her own path-until meeting Bora and his family pulls her into a completely different world. As the past and the future begin to intertwine, Harika's courage and intelligence will be put to the test. In this journey, history will not just be a setting, but a trial. Join Harika on her journey to change time and destiny-and discover yourself along the way.

She believed emotions were weaknesses. He believed love was something worth risking everything for. Vinice Valemore is the top student everyone admires-and fears. Cold, intelligent, and untouchable, she has built her life on logic, not feelings. To her, love only destroys people. Kaiser Draven is the academy's troublemaker-loud, careless, and always smiling like nothing can hurt him. But behind his teasing and arrogance, he carries a secret that slowly consumes him. They were never supposed to get along. But fate keeps pulling them together-through arguments, tension, and moments neither of them can explain. And somewhere between hatred and silence... love quietly begins. There is also Elrich Astaire-the gentle senior who loves her in a way that never demands anything in return, always waiting, always watching, always staying. But love doesn't always choose the safest heart. Because Kaiser is running out of time. And Vinice is only just beginning to understand what he meant to her. When he disappears without goodbye, all that remains are letters-written pieces of a boy who loved too late, and stayed too little. Years later, she finally learns the truth: He didn't leave because he stopped loving her. He left because he never had enough time to stay. Some love stories don't end with goodbye... they end with understanding too late. "I loved you... too late."

Tango and TJ have been best friends since forever, until the night all that changes. Suddenly, Tango is on her own. Without TJ, she's unsure how to be or who she is. When she meets Nate, the darkness begins to lift, and the hole in her heart gets a little smaller. Nate is someone who "gets" her. He's been where she is, and he knows how to fix things. But there is a difference between healing and hiding, and after a while, Tango isn't sure if Nate's way of coping with grief is the right way for her. When she meets 13-year-old Vivian, suddenly everything she thought she knew about the boy she loves is challenged. But has Tango gone too far? And is she too lost to find her way back to herself? tAnGoFiSh - a story of life after loss.

A best friend, a boy and a sea of lies. Can Abigail uncover it all? Abigail has had a rough life: parents in and out of hospitals, a family drowning in medical bills, and a best friend in love with her, leaving her with a guilty conscience. For the first time in years, though, all her problems have finally calmed down. Abigail just wants to have a normal, drama-free senior year with her best friends. When Jordan Adams transfers to Central High School with his signature cherry-red Chevelle, a 100-watt smile, and certified knowledge of classic cars, Abigail is instantly intrigued. Despite the rumors surrounding Jordan's reputation, Abigail begins to fall for his determination, his ambition, and the way he fights for those closest to him. She begins to fall for the way life seems so easy with him, as though he knows her better than she knows herself. But her best friend, Jake, issues her a stark warning: Jordan is not who he seems. A dark cloud looms over the relationship Jordan once had with Jake's sister, and Abigail vows to get to the bottom of it. But the more she gets to know Jordan, the more secrets she uncovers--secrets that start to lead to terrifying consequences. Pitted against her best friend, a lie weighing heavily on her heart, and a boy that makes her feel alive...will Abigail risk it all for love, or let her one chance slip through her fingers? Copyright © 2020 by Katy-C Cover Illustration Copyright © 2020 by @Katy-C All Rights Reserved Warning: this book contains strong language

After narrowly escaping senior year -- and the complicated grips of her first love -- Bridget Montez is now a junior in college, living out all the things she wished for, and vowing to keep her past in the past. Only, she's having a hard time keeping up. Between her demanding school schedule and being the long-distance girlfriend of an NBA prospect, Bridget finds herself stretched thinner than ever and struggling to deal with life in the limelight. But when a massive scandal threatens to tear everything apart Bridget struggles to figure out if the life many dream of is the life she wants. As the present becomes too heavy she finds herself reminiscing about the escapes of the past. The things she did. The way she felt. Him. After long she discovers that the past doesn't always stay there. Especially when you refuse to let it.

A headache. Lost locker keys. A surprise test. To everybody else, it is just another ordinary school morning. But for him, nothing has ever been ordinary. Hidden behind soft-spoken humor, oversized glasses, and an unremarkable face lies a gift he has spent most of his life trying to conceal. A gift that allows him to feel things before they happen, hear what others ignore, and notice the invisible weight people carry. But some truths refuse to stay hidden forever. The Sangoma Who Wore Glasses is a modern South African supernatural story about identity, intuition, spirituality, friendship, secrets, and learning what it means to walk between two worlds while pretending to belong to one.

A girl 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝘃𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗺𝗮𝘀 and the guy 𝗥𝗮𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗹 𝗜𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘀, connected by a bond that was never supposed to exist. She created him years ago... not Raahil, but someone exactly like him. A boy named 𝗭𝗮𝘆𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘃𝗶, who never existed. At least, that's what she thought. A lonely girl who once made up a perfect best friend on Instagram, and a boy who suddenly walks into her life years later, just like the one she imagined. But what happens when the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur? When her secrets aren't safe anymore... and someone else finds out? Will her past destroy her present? Or will love find a way through the chaos? To uncover the truth, dive into the chapters filled with slowburn, secrets, and everything you never saw coming.🎭 Tropes: ☆ Fake identity ☆ Long-distance best friend ☆ Internet secrets ☆ Love triangle ☆ Lost diary ☆ Blackmail + mystery ☆ Slowburn romance ☆ Dark emotions ☆ Age gap © All Rights Reserved

A truly heartbreaking story set in Rikers Town, Texas where love between two men is forbidden after a civil war. Living in the dark, surviving and fighting the wicked is all they can do to protect their secret love and other people who are in the same situation.

Shadow of the Crown follows the secret life of Malika, the future crown princess of a powerful kingdom-though no one knows it. Hidden in the shadows by her father, King Mansoor, Malika has been trained in secret, not only to rule but to protect a throne that has never truly been hers in the eyes of the world. As the king's greatest secret, Malika must navigate a life of deception, blending into the background while mastering skills she must one day use to claim what is rightfully hers. In a kingdom where power is both feared and coveted, Malika's journey is one of survival, loyalty, and the search for her own identity. But when her father's decisions and the kingdom's fragile peace begin to crumble, Malika must step out of the shadows, facing dangers both from within and beyond the palace walls. The clock is ticking, and the truth about who Malika really is could change everything. The question is-will she be ready to face her destiny? This version emphasizes her secret status and the mystery surrounding her identity, while still keeping the intrigue intact. How does this sound to you?

In the enchanting land of Emaria, orphan Aria discovers an ancient crystal and learns she is destined to restore the celestial being Lumora. With newfound magical powers, she embarks on a perilous quest, joined by a mischievous sprite and a brave dragon rider, to protect her world from dark forces seeking Lumora's power. As Aria's luminous quest unfolds, she delves deeper into the mysteries of Lumora's magic, unlocking her own inner potential and facing formidable challenges along the way. Guided by the wisdom of the village seer, Alarion, and with the unwavering support of her newfound friends, Thistle and Kael, Aria must navigate treacherous trials, confront mythical creatures, and overcome her own doubts and fears. As dark forces close in, their malevolent intentions becoming clearer, Aria's determination to protect Emaria and restore Lumora's essence grows stronger. Her journey takes her to distant lands and ancient ruins, where she unearths long-lost secrets about the balance between light and shadow, and the crucial role she plays in preserving the harmony of the world.

"The boy i buried is alive. And so are the people who wants me dead." Maria Valeha thought her semester break would be peaceful-two months of quiet in Selangor, video calls with her boyfriend, maybe a part-time job at Tealive. But peace doesn't last when your past was never really buried. An email arrives. The sender? A name she hasn't seen in five years. The boy she loved. The one who vanished when everything around her started to fall apart. The one who was never supposed to survive. Now, people tied to her are going missing. Again. And the ones who reach out-through games, through old threads, through shadows-aren't strangers. They're ghosts from a life she was forced to leave behind. "He told me to forget him. But that's the thing about first loves-you don't." What started in a mobile game is now spiraling into a war tied to powerful families, old betrayals, and a mafia conflict that runs deeper than anyone knew. "The target was never me. It was everyone I let close." Set in modern-day Malaysia, Ashes We Breathe is a slow-burn thriller about love, revenge, and the danger of remembering what the world wanted you to forget.

"Am I even living?", she spoke to herself... A young girl, who is lost in her own dream world, gets trapped in the threads of expectations of her close one's. Left all alone in this world with the expectations to meet. Would she be able to cope with it or would she do something out of the ordinary? ------------- -> Book started- 26/07/2024

Azalea turns nineteen next week and like many others she has no idea what her life could possibly have in store for her. After graduating high school in the spring, she decided to stay home and assumed her life would just somehow fall into place. However, after waiting all summer without much falling or life in general happening she realizes there has to be something else that she can do. Suddenly Azalea is thrown into the whirlwind of becoming an EKG Technician, being a college student, and maybe her greatest challenge of all, meeting Dodge Langston.

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Note to self: How can it be possible to know exactly what you're doing, and have no idea at the same time? Never having a boyfriend has never been a concern for Carmen Spencer. She's perfectly happy with fictional ones... until she meets Aiden Reed: a charming, forward boy brimming with conversation starters, brilliant poetry and witty remarks. When the night they meet is over, Carmen knows the chances of seeing him again are ridiculously slim (particularly because she lost him before she could get his phone number), but he might turn out to be closer than she ever thought possible. Although, Aiden's seemingly simple intentions may turn out to be less than honourable, and Carmen may change for the worst because of them. © 2016. All Rights Reserved This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Jane's life has been no less than a roller coaster ride. After being diagnosed with paralysis in a tragic car accident, she had to go through the death of her ex boyfriend in the same accident. The worst part about the accident? Jane had invited him to accompany her. Blaming herself, she spends a miserable life confined between 4 walls until a plot twist named 'Austin' arrives and she falls in love with him. Unaware that soon, life will test her with some more turns in her roller coaster ride. Accompany Jane and Austin in their journey! ********* Highest Ranks- 1- #whatmakesyoubeautiful 5- #paralysis 8- #utopia 10- #youngadultfiction 17- #poetry 16- #Teenlife 17- #youngadultromance 10+ tags in top 50. Winner of The Autumn Awards. Genre- Teen Fiction / Young Adult "Every second spent with you is worth remembering," Austin said, "Every time our hands hold each other, it sends an electric impulse down my spine. Every time I look at you, I just want to keep looking for the rest of my life. I love curves, I love your curves. The curves in your face when you smile and I can do anything to keep the smile on your face. The more I think about you, the more I think that I love you and I really do, Jane. I really love you. If the wind or the sun or the moon or anyone has been noticing me, they have witnessed that you have been in each of my thoughts. And who cares if you can never walk over the horizon, over the land and over the sand with me? Who cares about stupid proms, Jane? Grant me four walls and a roof, that would really be enough for me. You being with me is enough for me but yeah, it is my dream to go to Barcelona with you. It is my dream to be yours, but I believe that dreams don't come true and I will never ever have more pleasure in being wrong this time than anyother. I hope dreams come true and I will have the pleasure to be yours. I hope I am as lucky as Jaime was."