RIYL Graduation

Anderson, Laurie Halse Catalyst

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn Fate

Bradley, Alex 24 Girls in 7 Days

Brashares, Ann Girls in Pants: the third summer of the sisterhood takes place in the summer after graduation

Craft, Elizabeth Bass Ackwards and Belly Up

Crutcher, Chris Deadline

Doyle, Larry I Love You Beth Cooper (The whole book takes place on graduation night)

Green,John Paper Towns and Abundance of Katherines (Main character is dumped by his 19th girl named Katherine on graduation night, remainder of the books takes place the summer after graduation)

Leitch, Will Catch (one of my favorite "lesser known" YA books) takes place the summer after graduation and is very much about deciding what you want to do and who you want to be next.

Meehl, Brian Suck It Up

Werlin, Nancy Double Helix (involves graduating and deciding what to do after that (college or working)

After Graduation Posted to YALSABK

Shift - Jennifer Bradbury

Forever in Blue - Ann Brashares

The Vast Fields of Ordinary - Nick Burd

86 Bloomburg Place series - Melody Carlson

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You - Peter Cameron

Texas Gothic - Rosemary Clement-Moore

Very LeFreak - Rachel Cohn

Bass Ackwards and Belly Up - Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

What a Boy Needs - Nyrae Dawn

Tam Lin - Pamela Dean

Along For the Ride - Sarah Dessen

Something Like Normal by Trish Doller

Zoology - Ben Dolnick

Enchanted Ivy - Sarah Beth Durst

Love Story - Jennifer Echolls

Battle Dress - Amy Efaw

Jerk, California - Jonathan Friezen

The Sweetness of Salt - Cecilia Galante

Reunited - Hilary Weisman Graham

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

The Summer My Life Began - Shannon Greenland

Don't Stop Now - Julie Halpern

We'll Always Have Summer - Jenny Han

Kiss the Morning Star - Elissa Janine Hoole

Wanderlove - Kirsten Hubbard

The Ivy - Lauren Kunze

The Disenchantments - Nina Lacour

Catch - Will Leitch

The Piper's Son - Melina Marchetta

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer - Lish McBride

Jessica Darling series - Megan McCafferty

Purple Heart - Patricia McCormick

Sophomore Switch - Abby McDonald

The Nanny Diaries and Citizen Girl - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

Best Friends - Martha Moody

Sunrise Over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers

Alice on Board - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Surf Mules - G. Neri

Black Girl, White Girl - Joyce Carol Oates

The Dive From Clausen's Pier - Ann Packer

Secret Society Girl and sequels - Diana Peterfreund

Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone - Kat Rosenfeld

Rainbow Road - Alex Sanchez

While He Was Away - Karen Schreck

To Timbuktu - Casey Scieszka

Act of Grace - Karen Simpson

Ghosts of War - Ryan Smithson

Anatomy of a Boyfriend - Daria Snadowsky

The Fallback Plan - Leigh Stein

Irises - Francisco X. Stork

Somebody Everybody Listens To - Suzanne Supplee

Psych Major Syndrome - Alicia Thompson

Putting Makeup on Dead People - Jen Violi

Hacking Harvard - Robin Wasserman

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Long May She Reign - Ellen Emerson White

Funny How Things Change - Melissa Wyatt

An Off Year by Claire Zulkey

I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak