Read about teens in cities like Jason Reynolds's The Boy in a Black Suit (New York), suburbs like Brandy Colbert's Pointe (Illinois), or rural areas like Sarah Tomp's My Best Everything (Virginia).
From the West Coast (Martha Brockenbrough's The Game of Love and Death - Washington) to the East Coast (Kate Scelsa's Fans of the Impossible Life - New Jersey). From Disneyland (Isabel Quintero's Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, set in Southern California) to Disney World (Lauren Gibaldi's The Night We Said Yes, set in Orlando, Florida), there's a whole country to explore.
Alabama - Looking for Alaska by John Green
Alaska - My Name Is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson
Arizona - Zero by Tom Leveen
Arkansas - Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
California - Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Colorado - Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
Connecticut - Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
Delaware - The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Florida - The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi
Georgia - Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Hawaii - Juniors by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Idaho - Divided We Fall by Trent Reedy
Illinois - Pointe by Brandy Colbert
Indiana - All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Iowa - Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Kansas - Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett
Kentucky - My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
Louisiana - Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Maine - This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
Maryland - Now I’ll Tell You Everything by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Massachusetts - Conversion by Katherine Howe
Michigan - Caged Warrior by Alan Sitomer
Minnesota - Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian
Mississippi - Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson
Missouri - Feral by Holly Schindler
Montana - The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth
Nebraska - Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
Nevada - Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
New Hampshire - Whippoorwill by Joseph Monninger
New Jersey - Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa
New Mexico - Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz
New York - The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
North Carolina - No Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown
North Dakota - The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Ohio - Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak
Oklahoma - The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
Oregon - This Side of Home by Renee Watson
Pennsylvania - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Rhode Island - Spellcaster by Claudia Gray
South Carolina - Beautiful Creatures by Margie Stohl and Kami Garcia
South Dakota - Loki’s Wolves by Kelley Armstrong
Tennessee - The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes
Texas - Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Utah - Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
Vermont - Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn
Virginia - My Best Everything by Sarah Tomp
Washington - The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
West Virginia - Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
Wisconsin - Silent Alarm by Jennifer Banash
Wyoming - Unearthly by Cynthia Hand