June 2024 list by K. Pearson
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All Roads Lead to Rome
by Sabrina Fedel
When she's in the wrong gelato shop in Rome at the right time, introverted, slightly anxious Astoria Herriot is drawn into a fake dating scheme, one full of unexpected surprises and feelings, with a Scottish heartthrob for the sake of protecting his relationship with a pop princess.
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Another First Chance
by Robbie Couch
Forced to join a research study observing teens who are “struggling socially,” River Lang befriends a charming quarterback named Nash but must decide how far he's willing to go for another chance at first love when he discovers what the researchers are actually studying.
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Bad Graces
by Kyrie McCauley
Stealing her perfect sister's identity, self-destructive and desperate Liv Whitlock finds herself stranded with a pop star, two actresses, an Olympic gymnast and a social media influencer on an island where they must face something inhuman, using each other as their final tether to humanity.
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Blood & Fury
by Tessa Gratton
As Chaos reigns, Darling, a Phoenix reborn who is struggling to make sense of her destiny as a legendary creature, must harness the power of the ancient magic running through her blood to bring peace to the kingdom and find her way back to the boy she loves.
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The Breakup Artists
by Adriana Mather
August and Valentine, seventeen-year-old best friends, run a business called Summer Love, Inc. They hire themselves out to unhappy parents whose kids are in bad relationships, adopting fake identities and going undercover to break up these relationships by any means necessary.
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Evan Miller is Waking Down
by Jerel Law
Fifteen-year-old Evan Miller's dreambending power takes him outside the limits of City 47, but when the Elders discover his nonconforming ability, he is forced to flee.
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Everything We Never Said
by Sloan Harlow
Guilt-ridden and grieving seventeen-year-old Ella falls for her dead best friend Hayley's boyfriend Sawyer, but when she reads Hayley's journal, she discovers Sawyer has a much darker side.
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How to Get Over Your Best Friend's Ex
by Kristi Mcmanus
Hannah Taylor has lived in her best friend Braelyn’s shadow all through high school. But when she meets Seth, the handsome and charming newcomer, she wonders if, for once, she might finally be in the spotlight. Until Braelyn and Seth meet, and Brae sweeps his attention away as only she can. Hannah is left to watch the first boy she’s ever truly liked date not only someone else, but her best friend.
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The Lamplighter
by Crystal J. Bell
When a girl disappears after two lamps go out, Tempe’s ability to provide for her mother and younger sister hangs in the balance. She scrambles for answers, hindered at every turn by the village authorities’ call for her removal. As more villagers vanish under her watch, Tempe discovers unsettling truths about the famous Warbler figureheads and her own beloved father.
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Liar's Test
by Ambelin Kwaymullina
One of seven girls competing in deadly challenges to determine who rules for the next 25 years, Bell Silverleaf, who is determined to right the wrongs done to her people, discovers she's part of a centuries-old conspiracy that pits her against the gods themselves.
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Love, Off the Record
by Samantha Markum
Two rival journalism students who are vying for a coveted reporter position start a game of sabotage that pushes them to do their worst, but when a story hits too close to home, they must work together to expose the truth and their real feelings for each other.
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Moonstorm
by Yoon Ha Lee
Stranded on an imperial space fleet after a devastating attack, 16-year-old Hwa Young, an Imperial pilot-in-training, uncovers a conspiracy that puts their entire world at risk, forcing her to choose between her rebel past and an empire she's no longer sure she can trust.
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Of Princes and Poisons
by Brianna Joy Crump
Ten goddess-touched girls were born. Each was blessed―or cursed―with a unique power that set them apart. As part of an ancient ritual called the Culling, they were supposed to fight to the death in the arena until only one survived. That girl would marry the prince and ascend to the throne. Now only four girls remain.
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The Quince Project
by Jessica Parra
After a disastrous mishap at her sister's quinceañera and her mother's unexpected passing, Cas applies for her dream internship with a local lifestyle-guru-slash-party-planner, but she soon finds her agenda going way off-script and that real life is much more complicated than the movies.
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Seasick
by Kristin Cast
While on a celebratory yacht trip to Bermuda, ex-best friends Naya and Yana, newly inducted into an exclusive society of top recent graduates, are plunged into a nightmare when a classmate is brutally murdered, and as the body count rises, they must team up to survive.
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Shooting for Stars
by Christine Webb
Keeping her application for a NASA internship under wraps from her father, Skyler teams up with an aspiring videographer to film her submission and finds herself entangled in a budding romance, an unexpected friendship, and the real possibility her dreams of stars will collapse and explode.
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Summer Nights and Meteorites
by Hannah Reynolds
Swearing off boys for the summer while on her father's research trip to Nantucket, Jordan falls for her father's research assistant, Ethan, whom she's hated from afar for years, but when her summer job with a local astronomer turns up a centuries-old mystery, what she learns jeopardizes everything.
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Through a Clouded Mirror
by Miya T. Beck
Befriending the shopkeeper at a Japanese antiques store, Yuki Snow discovers an ancient brass mirror rumored to be a portal to a celebrated Japanese writer's world, and when a woman appears in the glass, beckoning her, she decides to step through into the unknown.
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Twelfth Knight
by Alexene Farol Follmuth
Viola Reyes is annoyed. Her painstakingly crafted tabletop game campaign was shot down, her best friend is suggesting she try being more "likable," and her school's star running back Jack Orsino is the most lackadaisical Student Body President she's ever seen, which makes her job as VP that much harder. Vi's favorite escape from the world is the MMORPG Twelfth Knight, but online spaces aren't exactly kind to girls like her--girls who are extremely competent and have the swagger to prove it.
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Wild About You
by Kaitlyn Hill
Indoorsy theater girl Natalie must team up with surly nature-lover Finn in an Amazing Race-style reality competition show set in the Appalachian wilderness--if they do not kill (or kiss!) each other first.
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