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Kody Keplinger

    This author writes for young adults, striving for honesty and authenticity in her work. Her narratives delve into the lives of teenagers, capturing their experiences with a true-to-life voice. The writing is direct and resonates deeply with its intended audience. She focuses on crafting stories that are both relatable and engaging.

    Kody Keplinger
    Shut out
    The Duff
    A Midsummer's Nightmare
    Poison Ivy: Thorns
    Lila and Hadley
    The Swift Boys & Me
    • 2021

      Poison Ivy: Thorns

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.9(2950)Add rating

      New York Times bestselling author of The DUFF Kody Keplinger and artist Sara Kipin reimagine an iconic DC antihero with a gothic-horror twist.

      Poison Ivy: Thorns
    • 2020

      Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted into her forever home, and just maybe Lila can help Hadley deal with her own problems.

      Lila and Hadley
    • 2018

      That's Not What Happened

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.8(16666)Add rating

      Six survived to tell the story, but who knows the truth? An addictive page-turner from bestselling US sensation Kody Keplinger, author of THE DUFF. It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story - that she died proclaiming her faith. But it's not true. I know because I was with her when she died. I didn't say anything then, and people got hurt because of it. Now Sarah's parents are publishing a book about her, so this might be my last chance to set the record straight . . . but I'm not the only survivor with a story to tell about what did - and didn't - happen that day. Except Sarah's martyrdom is important to a lot of people, people who don't take kindly to what I'm trying to do. And the more I learn, the less certain I am about what's right. I don't know what will be worse: the guilt of staying silent or the consequences of speaking up . . .

      That's Not What Happened
    • 2016

      Run

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.7(238)Add rating

      Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who’s not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past ten, and never broken any of her parents’ overbearing rules. Rules that are meant to protect their legally blind daughter—protect her from what, Agnes isn’t quite sure. Despite everything, Bo and Agnes become best friends. And it’s the sort of friendship that runs truer and deeper than anything else. So when Bo shows up in the middle of the night, with police sirens wailing in the distance, desperate to get out of town, Agnes doesn’t hesitate to take off with her. But running away and not getting caught will require stealing a car, tracking down Bo’s dad, staying ahead of the authorities, and—worst of all—confronting some ugly secrets.

      Run
    • 2015

      The Swift Boys & Me

      • 265 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      In Kody Keplinger's lyrical middle-grade debut, eleven-year-old Nola Sutton faces a summer of change when her best friends, the Swift boys, are torn apart by their father's departure. As she struggles to hold onto their friendship, Nola must confront the reality of their transformations and her own strength.

      The Swift Boys & Me
    • 2015

      Hamilton High: Lying Out Loud

      • 359 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.7(244)Add rating

      Can't get enough of Bianca and Wesley from The DUFF? Kody Keplinger returns to the world of Hamilton High in this companion novel.

      Hamilton High: Lying Out Loud
    • 2012

      Whitley Johnson's dream summer with her divorce dad has turned into a nightmare. She's just met his new fiancee and her kids. The fiancee's son? Whitley's one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin' great. Worse, she totally doesn't fit in with her dad's perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn't even notice the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person she's ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn't "do" friends), and a smoking-hot guy who isn't her stepbrother...at least, not yet. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together. Filled with authenticity and raw emotion, Whitley is Kody Keplinger's most compelling character to date: a cynical Holden Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about.

      A Midsummer's Nightmare
    • 2011

      Fed up with the increasingly violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can, in a comedic reimagining of the classic Greek play Lysistrata.

      Shut out
    • 2011

      The Duff

      Designated ugly fat friend

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.8(180394)Add rating

      Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is smart, cynical, loyal - and well aware that she's not the hot one in her group of friends. But when high-school jock and all round moron Wesley Rush tells her she's a DUFF - a Designated, Ugly Fat Friend - Bianca does not the see funny side. She may not be a beauty but she'd never stoop so low as to go anywhere near the likes of Wesley ... Or would she? Bianca is about to find out that attraction defies looks and that sometimes your sworn enemies can become your best friends ... With a wry and tell-it-like-it-is voice, New York Times Bestselling novel The Duff is a witty and poignant story of a teenager struggling with the rules of high school attraction, along with the breaking down of her relationships with family and friends. It is a novel about what it means to be sexy, in a world where we feel we have to be perfect! A Hamilton High School story from Kody Keplinger. Now a film starring Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne and Alison Janney - out on DVD Summer 2015.

      The Duff