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Check out one of these teen titles written by authors who currently or previously lived in Georgia, including several from Atlanta and Fulton County.

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  • When eighteen-year-old Noni moves to Tangleroot plantation in rural Virginia for her mom's new position as a college president, she uncovers long-buried secrets of the town's racist past and present.
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, ©2024. — Y FICTION WILLIAMS
  • In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to sell memories to wealthy clients. Maybe a few illegally, but money equals freedom. So when a…
    Book, 2024New York : Joy Revolution, ©2024. — Y FICTION TEW
  • Zay's ma always said his mouth would get him in trouble. Sure enough, it got him into his first and only fight in his junior year of high school. Expelled from his district, Zay's only hope for redemption is to transfer to Broadlawn Alternative…
    Book, 2024New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2024. — Y FICTION HUNTER
  • When Prince Jadon of Îles de la Rêverie is left in America to clean up his image after a horribly public break-up gone viral, romance is not on the table. Jadon's on a mission to turn things around and show his parents, and his country, that he's…
    Paperback, 2024New York, New York : Viking, 2024. — Y FICTION WINTERS
  • With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship in this timely new novel.
    Book, 2023New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. — Y FICTION ALBERTALLI
  • When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — Y FICTION ROSS
  • Seventy-three years after the events of THE DEATH CURE Sadina, Isaac, Jackie and the other descendants of the Gladers all learned about The Maze from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan. When a rusty old boat shows up they are forced…
    Book, 2022[Red Bank, New Jersey] : Akashic Media Enterprises, [2022] — Y FICTION DASHNER
  • A story of saints and floods, secrets and truths, rage and love--and the bravery it takes to bet your whole life on a new kind of hope.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — Y FICTION ANDERSON
  • Together, Tamar and Fayard have lived a thousand lives, seen the world build itself up from nothing only to tear itself down again in civil war. They've even watched humanity take to the stars. But in each life one thing remains the same: their love…
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2021. — Y FICTION MILES
  • Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. Though most ghosts are harmless and Jake is always happy to help them move on to the next place, Sawyer Doon wants much more from Jake. Everything Jake knows about dead world goes out the…
    Paperback, 2021New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2021. — Y FICTION DOUGLASS
  • Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later, though, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University . . . and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton…
    Book, 2020New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2020] — Y FICTION STONE
  • In this stunningly creative debut, Nicole Castroman reimagines the origins of history’s most infamous pirate—Blackbeard—and tells the story of the girl who captured his heart and then broke it, setting him on a path to destruction.
    Book, 2016New York : Simon Pulse, 2016. — Y FICTION CASTROMAN
  • Sixteen-year-old Maya's arranged marriage turns out much better than she expected, but her husband's magic--and her curiosity--may threaten more than her life.
    Book, 2016New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. — Y FICTION CHOKSHI
  • Naila's vacation to visit relatives in Pakistan turns into a nightmare when she discovers her parents want to force her to marry a man she's never met.
    Paperback, 2016New York, New York : Speak, 2016. — Y FICTION SAEED
  • Eighteen-year-old Nikki's unconditional love for Dee helps her escape from her problems, but when he involves her in a murder Nikki winds up in prison, confronted with hard facts that challenge whether Dee ever loved her, and she can only save…
    Paperback, 2014New York : Simon Pulse, 2014, c2013. — Y FICTION MCVOY
  • In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a wealthy…
    Book, 2007New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007. — Y FICTION CULLEN
  • After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several…
    Book, 2005New York : Sleuth Dutton, c2005. — Y FICTION SORRELLS