10 Emotional Books for Teens Guaranteed to Give You All the Feels

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let’s be honest: sometimes you just want a book that takes you through the full range of human emotion. the kind of reading that makes you laugh one minute and cry the next, or restores your faith in love, but also reminds you that heartbreak is the pinnacle of devastation. …basically the written equivalent of an Adele album.

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When we heard that becky albertalli and adam silvera were teaming up to write a novel about two boys who (may or may not!) fall in love, we couldn’t help but wonder what kind of feelings we should expect. of this collaboration. Will we be crying ugly, like we’re at the end of literally every Adam novel, or will we be swept up in another one of Becky’s lovable romances? we’ll have to wait to read and if that’s us to be sure, but in the meantime, we’ve rounded up the ten books that gave us all the feels!

ready? These emotional books for teens will give you all the feels!

1. the hate you give for angie thomas

Honestly, we just saw the movie and the feeling is too fresh. just thinking about this story makes us so nervous. you will cry, get angry and laugh at the happy moments in between. you will be inspired to make the world a better place. read this book!

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Shortly after, his death is a national headline. some call him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and gang member. Protesters are taking to the streets in the name of Khalil. some cops and the local drug dealer try to intimidate starr and his family. what everyone wants to know is: what really happened that night? and the only person alive who can answer that is starr.

but what starr says, or doesn’t say, could turn his community upside down. it could also endanger your life.

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2. the fault in our stars by john green

If “all sensations” were a genre, this book would be considered a modern classic. With an epically quotable romance, some of the wittiest supporting characters around, and that twist, know that even thinking about this book is enough to choke us.

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

insightful, audacious, irreverent and raw, the fault in our stars is award-winning author john green’s most ambitious and harrowing work to date, brilliantly exploring the funny, exciting and tragic business of being alive and in love.

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3. goodbye days by jeff zentner

From the first page, this book demolished our emotions. literally from the front line we knew what to expect. and we read it anyway, because it had such depth, such heartbreaking friendships…carver dealing with loss and trauma was an emotional journey that we needed.

“Where are you guys? Text me back.” That’s the last message Carver Briggs will ever send his three best friends, Mars, Eli, and Blake. He never thought that it would lead to their death. Now Carver can’t stop blaming himself for the accident and even worse, a powerful judge is pressuring the district attorney to open up a criminal investigation.

Luckily, Carver has some unexpected allies: Eli’s girlfriend, the only supportive person at school; dr Méndez, his new therapist; and Blake’s grandmother, who asks Carver to spend a “farewell day” together to share their memories and say a proper goodbye.

Soon, the other families ask for their own goodbye day with Carver, but Carver isn’t sure of their motives. Can everyone make peace with their losses, or will these days of goodbye bring Carver one step closer to total collapse or, worse, prison?

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4. the way you make me feel by maurene goo

family, friends and a food truck! this book was simultaneously funny, romantic, and relatable. It made us smile at the adorable budding romance, cheer for two enemy friends finding common ground, and want to hug our parents for everything they do. All in all, we loved how this book made us feel!

Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined.

but maybe the rose isn’t so bad. maybe the boy named hamlet (yes, hamlet) in love with her is very cute. she maybe she clear she really feels interested in her father’s business.

What if taking this summer seriously means Clara has to leave her old self behind?

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5. far from the tree by robin benway

There are happy and heartbreaking feelings in this one. think it’s us for your library. this reading has to do with the family. it is about those we choose and those who choose us. about how family defines us and how we define ourselves. get the tissues ready for this one!

Being the middle child has its ups and downs.

if it weren’t for grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, finding out she’s the middle child is a whole different journey. after giving his own baby up for adoption, he seeks out her biological family, which includes —

Maya, her younger and louder biological little sister, who has a lot to say about her new family ties. Having grown up a sarcastic brunette in a house full of perky redheads, she is quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite strangers. And when her adoptive family’s long-buried problems begin to surface, she can’t help but wonder where exactly she belongs.

and joaquin, his stoic older biological brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. After seventeen years in foster care, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and that secrets and fears are best kept secret, where they can’t hurt anyone but him.

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6. julie murphy dumpling

willowdean’s journey to regain her confidence and show the world what makes her a star will have you laughing out loud one minute and crying the next. There’s love, loss, friendship drama, and those inspirational quotes that make us want to frame every sentence Julie Murphy writes. this book gave us all the feels, plus some motivational wall art!

With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, and Dolly Parton songs, Dumplin’ is guaranteed to steal your heart.

Self-proclaimed fat Willowdean Dickson (nicknamed “Dumplin'” by her former beauty queen mother) has always been comfortable in her own skin. her thoughts on having the best bikini body? put a bikini on your body. With her American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked out. . . Until Ella Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast food restaurant. she there she meets bo from private school, a former hot jock. will is not surprised to be attracted to bo. but she is surprised when she seems like she likes her back.

Instead of finding new levels of confidence in his relationship with Bo, Will begins to doubt himself. So she sets out to win her confidence back by doing the most horrible thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet beauty pageant, along with other unlikely candidates, to show the world that she deserves to be there as much as she does. any. the girl does. Along the way, she will surprise Clover City, and perhaps herself more than anyone else.

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7. they both die at the end by adam silvera

Between the title and the author, you should have a pretty good idea of the emotions that await you. an epic journey through one unforgettable last day on earth, and a reminder that it’s never too late to truly live or truly love. plus, we may have started crying just writing about it.

We here at Last Friend Inc. are collectively sorry for this loss of you. Our deepest sympathies extend to those who love you and those who will never meet you. We hope you find a new friend of value to spend your final hours with today.

on september 5th, shortly after midnight, death-cast calls mateo torrez and rufus emeterio to give them some bad news: they are going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are complete strangers, but for different reasons, both are looking to make a new friend on their last day. the good news: there’s an app for that. his name is last friend, and through him, rufus and mateo are about to meet for one last great adventure: to live a whole life in a single day.

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8. before i fall by lauren oliver

another classic that set the tone for ugly crying. this is, oh, you know, just a casual story about what really makes life worth living. and second chances. and goodbye and never judge a book by its cover. there’s a reason quotes from this book are all over pinterest.

What if you only had one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

samantha kingston has it all: looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday the 12th of February should be just another day in his enchanted life. instead, it turns out to be the last one.

the problem: samantha still wakes up the next morning. Living the last day of her life seven times during one miraculous week, she will unravel the mystery surrounding her death and discover the true value of all that she is in danger of losing.

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9. lady midnight by cassandra clare

full disclosure: the lord of the shadows gave us even more sensations than this beginning of the trilogy. but all the dynamics between the blackthorn family, julian and emma, cristina and the rosales brothers… these characters made their way into our hearts, and we are sure that the queen of air and darkness is going to destroy us completely.

It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.

Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that spans Los Angeles, from the sunset fringe to the enchanted sea that laps at the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directions…

To further complicate matters, Julian’s brother Mark, who was captured by the fairies five years ago, has been returned as a bargaining chip. The fairies are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind, and they need the help of the Shadowhunters to do so. But time works differently in fairies, so Mark has barely aged and doesn’t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the fairies really allow it?

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10. elizabeth acevedo’s poet x

With the romance that made us swoon, the mother-daughter relationship that broke our hearts, and xiomara’s own journey to find her voice, this book truly made it clear that we should never give up on our dreams.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

but xiomara has a lot to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion into the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like sentences, especially after she has feelings for a boy in her biology class named aman. , who his family will never know.

with mommy’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, xiomara understands that it is better to keep her thoughts to herself. So when she’s invited to join her school’s poetry slam club, she doesn’t know how she could attend without her mom finding out about her. but she still can’t stop thinking about interpreting the poems for her.

because faced with a world that may not want to listen to her, xiomara refuses to shut up.

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