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Realistic Fiction YA Books & the Movies They Inspired

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  • The Hate U Give follows teenager Starr after her childhood friend Khalil is killed by a police officer. Starr struggles to balance the trauma of witnessing the shooting with finding her place in both her primarily Black neighborhood and her mostly…
    Unknown, 2017New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017].
  • DVD, 2019Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2019]
  • Simon is falling in love with Blue over email. He knows they go to school together, but they're both in the closet so he has no idea which of his classmates might be the boy he wants to date.
    Unknown, 2015New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
  • Film adaptation of Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.
    DVD, 2018Los Angeles, CA : 20th Century Fox, [2018]
  • Monster tells the story of Steve Harmon, a 16 year old accused of acting as an accessory to murder. As the justice system works around him, each person twisting things to serve their own needs, Steve (an aspiring filmmaker) begins to tell his story…
    Unknown, 2001New York : HarperTempest/Amistad, 2001.
  • To All the Boys I've Loved Before follows Lara Jean as she tries to deal with the fact that all the private letters she's written to secret crushes over the years have been mailed. Movie available on Netflix.
    Unknown, 2014New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2014]
  • Theodore is fascinated by death and struggles with suicidal thoughts. Violet is haunted by grief following her sisters death. Both teens want nothing more to escape and as they start to get to know each other they find that their relationship might…
    Unknown, 2015New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]
  • When Stargirl first enters public school after 15 years of homeschooling, her quirky and effusive personality makes her someone everybody wants to know. But as the students start to realize how different she is from them, her status plummets.…
    Unknown, 2000New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000.
  • Lina, her mother, and her brother are separated from her father by Soviet soldiers and sent to a work camp in Siberia. In this harsh new reality, Lina uses art to comfort herself.
    Unknown, 2012New York : Speak, 2012, c2011.
  • Film adaptation of Between Shades of Gray.
    Streaming Video, 2019Vertical Entertainment, 2019
  • This tearjerker romance follows the relationship between two chronically ill teens.
    Unknown, 2012New York : Dutton Books, c2012.
  • DVD, 2014[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014]
  • Madeline is severely immuno-compromised. She's basically allergic to the world, and hasn't left her house in 15 years. But when a new boy named Olly moves in next door and she starts to develop a crush on him, Madeline begins to question the rules…
    Unknown, 2015New York : Delacorte Press, [2015]
  • DVD, 2017[Burbank, California] : Warner Home Video, [2017]
  • Narrated by Death, this WWII novel follows a young girl in Nazi Germany as she begins to understand the truth and tragedy of the world she is living in.
    Unknown, 2007New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, c2005.
  • DVD, 2014Los Angeles, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2014]
  • Charlie, the protagonist of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, deals with a series of relatable teenage rites of passages like parties, first loves, and new friendships. But Charlie also struggles to come to terms with serious incidents from his past…
    Unknown, 2012New York : MTV Books/Gallery Books, 2012, c1999.
  • Mia has always been a totally average teenager: she has great friends but isn't popular, she loves writing but is nearly failing math, and she wants nothing more than to finally get her first kiss. But her whole life is flipped upside down when she…
    Unknown, 2008New York : Harper Teen, 2008.
  • DVD, 2002Burbank, CA : Disney DVD : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]