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• Blackout

  Even Love Stories Can Glow When the Lights Go Out

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  After a summer heatwave causes a citywide power outage in New York City, thirteen Black teens explore love, friendships, and hidden truths over the course of a single day. Told in the form of six stand-alone but interconnecting short…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This One Summer

  Tamaki, Mariko

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  A coming of age story about two teenage friends, Rose and Windy, during a summer in Awago, a small beach town. Rose and Windy discover themselves and their sexuality while battling family dynamics and expectations.

• Crash Landing

  Li, Charmaine Anne,

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  Skateboarding summer queer romance set in 2010's Vancouver!

• Charming as a Verb

  Philippe, Ben

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  Two teens' individual hustles are unexpectedly intertwined when intense and studious Corrine blackmails her popular first-gen classmate Henri into helping better both their chances into getting into their dream colleges.

• Everything Leads to You

  LaCour, Nina

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  A lighthearted and low-stakes summer-tinged lgbt romance. When Emi 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Better Than the Movies

  Painter, Lynn

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  Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Foolish Hearts

  Mills, Emma, 1989-

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  When Claudia accidentally eavesdrops on the epic breakup of Paige and Iris, the it-couple at her school, she finds herself in hot water with prickly, difficult Iris. Thrown together against their will in the class production of A Midsummer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Northranger

  Terciero, Rey

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  A Teen LGBT summer romance set in a small and spooky town in Texas. All is not what it seems in this contemporary re-imagining of Jane Austen's Northranger Abbey.

• Where You See Yourself

  Forrest, Claire (Young adult author)

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  By the time Effie Galanos starts her senior year, it feels like she’s already been thinking about college applications for an eternity—after all, finding a college that will be the perfect fit and be accessible enough for Effie to navigate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Music of What Happens

  Konigsberg, Bill

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  A sweltering summer food truck-based meet cute set in Arizona, featuring an opposites-attract style queer romance.

• You Have a Match

  Lord, Emma

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  Two sisters accidentally find each other via a DNA service and decide to dig more to learn what their parents are hiding from them by participating a summer camp together.

• You Know Me Well

  LaCour, Nina

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  Told through alternating viewpoints and taking the place over the course of a single night, a handful of Bay Area teenagers cross paths and experience a series of firsts during SF Pride. Co-written with David Leviathan, which is how I am…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last True Poets of the Sea

  Drake, Julia

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  A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, set on a small island off the coast of Maine.

• This Delicious Death

  Cottingham, Kayla,

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  Three years after a pandemic caused a rash of zombie-like behaviors in those infected, things are mostly back to normal, with the frenzied human flesh cravings managed by a synthetic treatment. Enter four friends, survivors of the pandemic…Read moreRead more of this annotation