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13 Days of Summer
by Stephanie Kate Strohm
The summer after senior year of high school, Carson, Noemi and Eleanor pick up a charming hitchhiker during a cross-country road trip to see Taylor Swift on tour, and as Carson and the stranger hit it off, tensions grow in this coming-of-age novel.
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This Could Be Forever
by Ebony LaDelle
Told in alternating voices, African American Deja and Nepali American Raja fall in love the summer before Deja starts college, diverging from their parents' expectations for their futures.
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Best Summer Ever
by Jessica Cunsolo
Jenna doesn't like to appear out of control...ever. But when she learns her best friend has accepted a place at a university on the other side of the country, her father is moving to Vancouver and selling the family properties, and her cousin/BFF Olivia has decided to move in with her boyfriend, Jenna's carefully constructed façade begins to crack. Everyone around her is making plans and moving on...except her. Faced with losing everything that matters to her, Jenna decides to invite her friends to her family's lake house and host a weeklong extravaganza before everyone goes their separate ways. As the week unfolds, friendships are tested and so are new and old romances. And by the end of their trip, both Jenna and Olivia discover that it's impossible to be in control all the time (especially if feelings are involved)...and this summer will change everything.
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Wendy's Ever After
by Julie Wright
Wendy Darling embarks on a new journey where her past in Neverland collides with her future hopes for love, only to rediscover the adventure never truly ended.
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| Best of All Worlds by Kenneth OppelXavier went to sleep at a lake house with his family, and woke up on a farm under an impenetrable dome. He’s surviving just fine until another family shows up, who may pose a greater threat than whoever put them all in this predicament. Read-alikes: Marieke Nijkamp’s At the End of Everything; Laura Bates’ No Accident. |
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Throwback
by Maurene Goo
16-year-old Samantha Kang doesn’t understand the "all-American" dreams her first-generation Korean American mother Priscilla has for her. Desperate to get away from her mom, Samantha uses a rideshare app that magically transports her to the 1990s, where she meets Priscilla as a 17-year-old. And falls for a football player!? This Freaky Friday-esque heartfelt novel explores inherited trauma and the immigrant experience within a sparkling romantic comedy.
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Fever, 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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The Edelweiss Pirates : Teenage Rebels in Nazi Germany
by Dirk Reinhardt
Befriending Josef Gertach, who gives him his teenage diary to read, 16-year-old Daniel is drawn into a real-life thriller in which Josef documents his time with The Edelweiss Pirates who rebelled against Hitler's regime in both a fight for freedom and their lives.
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Freedom Swimmer
by Wai Chim
Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams. But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.
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My Lady Jane
by Cynthia Hand
A fantastical, comedic romance adventure inspired by the true story of Lady Jane Grey follows the experiences of a 16-year-old noblewoman who, on the eve of her marriage to a stranger, is swept up in a conspiracy to usurp the throne from her cousin.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up!
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Albert Lea Public Library
211 E Clark St.
Albert Lea, Minnesota 56007
(507) 377-4350alplonline.org |
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