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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares · 310 pages

Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they're fabulous. Lena decides they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody kn

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Summer Boys

Hailey Abbott · 214 pages

It's summer. It's hot. And it's time to hook up. Cousins Ella, Beth, and Jamie are at their family's beach house, and they're gearing up for the wildest time of their lives. Sassy Ella is majorly crushing on a cute older boy, who just happens to be her sister's new boyfriend. Meanwhile, practical Beth is surprised when she finds herself falling for her best friend George. And shy, creative Jamie g

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The Summer I Turned Pretty

Jenny Han · 304 pages

This book is fresh fun and exciting. 15 year Belly Conklin is enjoying another summer with the people that she loves in Cousins, a place she's been going to since she was a baby! The fishers, Aka Jerimiah and Conrad, are finally grown up, and Belly feels like she can fit in aswell. Belly would be turning 16 this year, as now she feels as if she can fit in with the boys. She thinks the summer will

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Since You've Been Gone

Morgan Matson · 464 pages

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.

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Thirteen Plus One

Lauren Myracle · 290 pages

As Winnie and her friends count the days until the beginning of high school, they attend a summer camp where they learn about sea turtles--as well as human relationships.

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Nantucket Blue

Leila Howland

For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family. A summer when she'll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers. A summer to surpass all dreams. Some of this turns out to be true. Some of it doesn't. When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy that forces the

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Fire with Fire

Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian · 528 pages

Jar Island teens Lillia, Kat, and Mary's ongoing revenge plot against Reeve has unexpected consequences. The coauthor is Siobhan Vivian. Book #2 Jar Island teens Lillia, Kat, and Mary's ongoing revenge plot against Reeve has unexpected consequences.

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The Ivy

Lauren Kunze, Rina Onur

When Callie arrives for her freshman year at Harvard, she encounters her three vastly different roommates, new friendships, steamy romance, and scandalous secrets.

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Sixteenth Summer

Michelle Dalton

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The Crown

Kiera Cass · 288 pages

Eadlyn still isn’t sure she’ll find the fairytale ending her parents did twenty years ago. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you…and soon Eadlyn must make a choice that feels more impossible—and more important—than she ever imagined

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One Dark Throne

Kendare Blake

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The Naturals Paperback Boxed Set

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Cold cases get hot in this unputdownable mystery series from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games trilogy. The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood, and the novella Twelve,are available together for the first time! Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and w

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Boy-Crazy Stacey

Ann M. Martin · 138 pages

Spending two weeks at the New Jersey shore as mother's helpers, Mary Anne objects when Stacey neglects her babysitting duties after falling in love with Scott the lifeguard.

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Rules of Summer

Joanna Philbin · 352 pages

Spending the summer working as an errand girl for the Rule family in the Hamptons, seventeen-year-old Rory befriends the family's teenaged daughter and develops feelings for their older son, but she finds that societal rules can be hard to break.

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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins · 336 pages

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On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

Louise Rennison · 256 pages

Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time.

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Isla and the Happily Ever After

Stephanie Perkins · 368 pages

Isla has had a crush on classmate Josh since their freshman year at the School of America in Paris, but after a chance encounter over the summer in Manhattan they return to France for their senior year where they are forced to confront challenges every young couple in love must face. As they begin their senior year in France, Isla and Josh are quickly forced to confront the heartbreaking reality

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Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast · 1,264 pages

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Gossip Girl

Cecily von Ziegesar · 203 pages

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep—sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends’ hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I’ll be watching closely . . . You know you love me,

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Three Day Summer

Sarvenaz Tash · 304 pages

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Endless Summer

Jennifer Echols

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Twenty Boy Summer

Sarah Ockler

"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.""Okay.""Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?""Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy ever day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first su

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What I Thought Was True

Huntley Fitzpatrick · 404 pages

"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"-- Seventeen-year-old Gwen is a wor

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