Rediscover That Teenage Feeling
Even if we all had a few awkward times, you have to admit there’s something magical about that earnest, messy, eye-opening age when you’re a young adult. Pick up the fiction below to see the world through the eyes of the next generation and rediscover those feelings from youth.
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Add to BookshelfFrankly in Love
by David Yoon
Frankly, Frank Li is in trouble. He has fallen in love—with a girl who isn’t Korean. To appease his conservative Korean parents, he comes up with a fake dating scheme (because those never backfire). But a huge curveball from life makes Frank wonder if he ever knew anything about life in the first place. This sweet, moving debut will make you feel all the joy, frustration, wonder, and angst of falling in love for the first time.
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
by Junauda Petrus
When sixteen-year-old Audre is told that she’s going to be sent to live in America with her father, she is despondent. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, sixteen-year-old Mabel’s father announces that his best friend and his just-arrived-from-Trinidad daughter are coming for dinner. Mabel falls hard for Audre in the way you only can when you’re sixteen, but their romance takes a turn when they figure out Mabel hasn’t been feeling well all summer.
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Her Royal Highness
by Rachel Hawkins
Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. Heartbroken and ready for a change of pace from Houston, Millie decides to apply for a scholarship to boarding school—in Scotland. The only problem? Her roommate Flora is a total princess. Literally—she’s a princess of Scotland. If this isn’t anything like your high school experience, you can pretend.
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by Erika L. Sánchez
Perfect Mexican daughters do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role. After Juila’s sister Olga dies tragically, she is left to figure out how to reassemble the pieces of her family. Along the way, she’ll lean on her best friend, fall in love, and learn more about her sister than she ever knew.
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Odd One Out
by Nic Stone
Courtney Cooper and Jupiter Sanchez (Coop & Jupe!) have been next-door neighbors and best friends since they were seven-years-old. When Rae Chin moves to town she can’t believe how lucky she is to find Coop and Jupe. Jupiter has always liked girls. But when Rae starts dating Cooper, Jupe realizes that the only girl she ever really imagined by his side was her. One story. Three sides. No easy answers.
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Look
by Zan Romanoff
Influencer life isn’t as shiny and perfect as it seems. Lulu’s whole life is crashing down around her and her carefully curated feed isn’t keeping her afloat. It takes a new friend, Cass, to show her what real intimacy means, online and offline.
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