Teen Summer Reads: Part Two
Our teen librarians had a lot of suggestions for casual summer reading, so we made another list. (Created Jul. 2023)
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Imogen, Obviously
Imogen has always been the token straight girl, the best ally ever. When she visits her childhood best friend Lili at college, Lili reveals that she told all of her queer friends that Lili and Imogen used to date (though they didn't). So as Imogen tries to fit in and she develops feelings for one of Lili's friends, she has to ask herself if she really is straight, and if being an ally is better than being true to herself.
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Warrior Girl Unearthed
Black and Anishinaabe girl Perry takes a summer job at the tribal museum, where she learns that the local university is holding onto the remains of one of her people's ancestors, using legal loopholes to do so. Can she and her friends pull off a plan to remove and repatriate the bones of their ancestor?
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Simon Sort of Says
After becoming the sole survivor of a school shooting, Simon and his parents move to a rural town off the grid where he can learn to live his life without nightmares and anxiety.
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We Deserve Monuments
When Avery's mother learns her mother is dying of cancer, the family picks up and moves to Georgia to take care of her, but family secrets and the town's racist history make her grandmother's dying days much harder for everyone.
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Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
Celine and Bradley used to be involved, but broke up. Now both of them are joining a wilderness adventure to win scholarship money, and the pair must work together again. Can they get along long enough to win? Can old feelings be rekindled?
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Five Survive
Red and her five friends go camping on their spring break, but are diverted into a lonely rural cemetery where a sniper shoots out their tires and reveals he will kill them if one of them doesn't reveal a particular secret.
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A First Time for Everything
Dan's boring, invisible life is changed forever when his parents send him on a summer class trip to Europe, where he experiences a bunch of firsts: first time away from his parents, first Fanta, first fondue, first time falling in love.
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Speculation
When Winna's mother is hospitalized and her little sister breaks her glasses, her uncle gives her a pair of strange glasses that allow her to see and hear the ghost of an ancestor - one who tells her how to break the family curse that will help her mother breathe easy once again.
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The Sunbearer Trials
Every decade, the Sunbearer Trials are held to find a new champion who will relight the power stones that protect the people. The one who loses to the champion will be sacrificed to fuel the stones. Can Teo and Xio work together to ensure neither one loses?
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Hollow
Izzy's move to Sleepy Hollow, the home of the Headless Horseman, introduces her to the legend and to Vicky, a descendant of the original family to lose their heads to the Headless Horseman. As Halloween grows closer, can the two of them (plus Vicky's friend Croc) end the bloody legend before one of them loses their head?
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