Romance for Teens
Love and heartbreak are the themes here. MS = Books for middle school readers (Updated October 2020)
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Heartwood Box
Araceli moves to a strange new town where she discovers a weird box that allows her to exchange love letters from a soldier in the past, and unexplained lights in the forest that seem to make people disappear.
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Serious Moonlight
When Birdie starts her new job at a Seattle hotel, she is embarrassed to discover her new coworker is a former one night stand. Together they stumble upon a mystery, and a friendship that could develop into something more.
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Cold Day in the Sun
Holland, the only girl on her hockey team, must deal with social gender expectations, training drills, and her growing feelings for Wes, the team captain.
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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
When Ivy's house is demolished by a tornado, she copes by drawing in her sketchbook and exploring her feelings for a new friend. MS
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Kings, Queens, and In-betweens
Shy, brokenhearted Nima discovers a label defying queer culture in a local drag community where she begins to find her voice and fall for the star drag king. MS
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Not If I Save You First
Maddie and Logan, estranged childhood friends, are being held captive by an assassin in the Alaskan wilderness. To make it out alive, they’ll need to work together. MS
Format: Book
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Crush
Jorge is sick of all the middle school drama around dating and flirting...but then suddenly can't seem to remember how to speak around Jazmine. MS
Format: Graphic Novel
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I Wish You All the Best
After Ben is kicked out of their house for coming out as nonbinary, they struggle with how to be out at their new school. Nathan, however, accepts them and even gives them hope for more. MS
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Not So Pure and Simple
Hoping to get closer to his crush Kiera, Del inadvertently joins a Purity Pledge class at his church.
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The Way You Make Me Feel
Clara’s punishment for a prank gone wrong is to work in her dad’s sweltering food truck all summer with Rose, her over-achieving nemesis. The cute boy in the next food truck might make it all right.
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