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While We're Young
by K. L. Walther
On a senior skip day in Philadelphia, four friends navigate tangled relationships, secrets, and broken hearts as they attempt to mend their bonds and find love amidst an epic adventure around the city.
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Fall of the Fireflies (Seasons of Sisterhood #1)
by Guadalupe García McCall
From bestselling author Guadalupe García McCall comes the first book in the Seasons of Sisterhood trilogy, in which twins Velia and Delia take on a divine assignment to be monster-hunting warrior women and save their father's life.
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Never Thought I'd End Up Here
by Ann Liang
After making a cultural blunder at her cousin's wedding, seventeen-year-old Leah travels to China to connect with her roots and winds up falling for a former classmate on the trip, who she previously blamed for ruining her life.
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I Am the Cage
by Allison Sweet Grant
A coming-of-age story about Elisabeth, a young woman running away from the medical traumas of her childhood by hiding in a small town. But when a massive snowstorm strikes, Elisabeth finally allows herself to accept help from her neighbor, Noah, the town's young sheriff, and learns to heal her heart in the process.--
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There's Always Next Year
by Leah Johnson
Told in two voices, this is the story of Andy--a serious journalism student adamant about reinventing herself--and her influencer cousin Dominique--who is on the verge of securing a major deal--who navigate their own respective love stories over the New Year.
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A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric LindstromFor sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to keep everyone at arm’s length. And when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to come out and upend her shaky equilibrium. As the walls of Mel’s compartmentalized world crumble, she fears the worst—that her friends will abandon her if they learn the truth about what she’s been hiding. Can Mel bring herself to risk everything to find out?
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Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough. Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby. Emaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby? Emaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going? |
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Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca ZappiaNo one at school knows that friendless, introverted Eliza is also Lady Constellation, creator of the popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza never has cause to question her careful anonymity -- at least not until she bonds with Wallace, a new classmate and Monstrous Sea superfan.
For another thoughtful story featuring the particular challenges of internet fame, pick up Alice Oseman’s Radio Silence.
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He, Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls, has got it made—a full football ride to UMiami, hero-worship status at school, and pick of any girl at West Charleston High. She Football, shmootball. Here's what Claudia Clarke cares Harvard, the poor, the disenfranchised, the hungry, the staggering teen pregnancy rate, investigative journalism . . . the list goes on. She does not have a minute to waste on Mr. T-Diddy Smalls and his harem of bimbos. He Said, She Said is a fun and fresh novel from Kwame Alexander that throws these two high school seniors together when they unexpectedly end up leading the biggest social protest this side of the Mississippi—with a lot of help from Facebook and Twitter. The stakes are high, the romance is hot, and when these worlds collide, watch out! |
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Everything Leads to You
by Nina Lacour
I want you to do something with the place. Something epic. After being entrusted with her brother's Los Angeles apartment for the summer as a graduation gift, Emi Price isn't sure how to fulfill his one condition: that something great take place there while he's gone. Emi may be a talented young production designer, already beginning to thrive in the competitive film industry, but she still feels like an average teen, floundering when it comes to romance. But when she and her best friend, Charlotte, discover a mysterious letter at the estate sale of a Hollywood film legend, Emi must move beyond the walls of her carefully crafted world to chase down the loose ends of a movie icon's hidden life, leading her to uncover a decades' old secret and the potential for something truly epic: love.
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For more reading recommendations, ask a librarian or go to Find Your Next Read on the library website! |
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