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YA Books to Make You Swoon
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The lovely reckless by Kami GarciaForced by a reckless mistake to leave her privileged life to move in with her undercover cop dad and transfer to a public school, 17-year-old Frankie is drawn to the community's fastest street racer, Marco, and risks everything to follow her heart.
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The romantics by Leah KonenWhen a boy's first big relationship crumbles on the heels of his parents' painful separation, a meddling Love intervenes in order to set things right but fails to anticipate the intrusion of her dreaded nemesis, Rebound.
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Girls like me by Lola StVilFifteen-year-old Shay Summers is trying to cope with the death of her father, being overweight and threats from a girl bully in school, so when she falls in love with Blake, a mysterious boy online, she's too insecure to tell him who she is until her two best friends (as well as Kermit and Miss Piggy) help love prevail.
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Bookishly ever after
by Isabel Bandeira
When sixteen-year-old Phoebe learns that a cute guy might have a crush on her, she uses the heroines in her favorite books as examples of how to improve her own personality
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Of Fire and Stars by Audrey CoulthurstA girl betrothed since childhood to a handsome prince to seal an alliance between their kingdoms hides her magical affinity for wielding fire powers while falling unexpectedly in love with her intended's prickly sister.
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We are still tornadoes by Michael KunBest friends their entire lives, a struggling musician and an academic golden girl, both coming of age in the 1980s, spend a first year apart when one departs for college, a period marked by questions about their respective futures and whether or not they are becoming more than friends.
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The odds of loving Grover Cleveland : a novel
by Rebekah Crane
When Zander is sent away to Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens, she forms unlikely friendships with the other campers and finds herself drawn to a cute but confrontational boy
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The incredible adventures of Cinnamon Girl
by Melissa Keil
Loving her routines in a small town where she wakes up to the smells of the nearby bakery, draws comic books and spends time with her friends, Alba finds her life thrown into chaos by changes in her relationships with two boys and growing doomsday mania that is bringing hordes of strangers into the community.
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Crazy messy beautiful by Carrie ArcosFalling repeatedly in love but unable to succeed in the style of the poet who inspired his name, 16-year-old Neruda Diaz is partnered on a school assignment with a girl unlike anyone he typically falls for and discovers the magic and mess of a romance born from friendship.
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What light by Jay AsherDividing her life between her family's Oregon Christmas tree farm and the California tree lot where they spend the holiday seasons, Sierra falls for a boy who lives under the shadow of a terrible mistake, a relationship that is met with disapproval and suspicion. By the best-selling author of Thirteen Reasons Why.
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Holding up the universe by Jennifer NivenStruggling to pick up the pieces of her life after her mother's death and ostracized by her peers because of her weight, Libby is tangled up in a cruel high school game with a charismatic boy whose disability prevents him from recognizing faces. By the best-selling author of All the Bright Places.
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Love & gelato by Jenna Evans WelchReluctantly spending the summer in Tuscany in order to fulfill her mother's dying wish that she get to know her absent father, Lina is inspired to follow in her mother's footsteps after reading her journal and, in the process, uncovers a long-hidden secret. A first novel.
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The last boy and girl in the world by Siobhan VivianWith their town sliding underwater and everyone being ordered to leave, Keeley and her friends gather one last time to party in abandoned houses and share canoe races down Main Street with the goal of making the most of every minute they have left together, a situation that prompts Keeley to take a final chance at winning over a longtime crush.
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You before anyone else
by Julie Cross
"New York City model Finley is fed up with hearing the same feedback at castings: she needs to take some serious action to wipe the "good girl" stamp from her resume if she wants to launch to stardom. Enter Eddie Wells. He's shallow, predictable...and just as lost as Finley feels. Deep down, Finley is drawn to Eddie's bravado, his intensity. Except Eddie is hiding something. A big something. And when it surfaces, both loving and leaving Finley will become so much harder"
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This is my brain on boys by Sarah StrohmeyerA straitlaced teen who seeks entry into an elite school conducts experiments on her peers to prove a theory that love is nothing more than brain chemicals, an effort that is challenged by difficult competitors and her growing feelings for a mysterious newcomer.
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Any other girl by Rebecca PhillipsResolving to stop ruining her friendships with destructive choices made to deflect attention from her gay parents, Kat struggles between protecting her relationship with her cousin and pursuing a boy whom her cousin liked first.
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You Know Me Well by David LevithanSpotting a girl he has sat beside in silence for a year, Mark bonds with Kate over their unrequited same-sex crushes throughout the course of a fateful pride week in San Francisco. By the award-winning author of The Disenchantments and the award-winning co-author of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.
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