Laura Jean is really in love. It was all an act at first but now her and Peter are a thing. An item. A couple. What does that even mean for Laura Jean and Peter? Laura Jean is falling for Peter when John Ambrose McClaren is back in town for the opening of a neighborhood time capsule. Over the years John has really improved and now Laura Jean is battling her feelings for two boys she has loved before. Which boy will “win”?
American Royals by Katharine McGee is young adult fiction. When America won the Revolutionary war, George Washington was offered the crown and he accepted. Now, two and a half centuries later, what if America had a royal family? Princess Beatrice is getting closer to becoming the first queen regnant of America. No one cares about the spare sister unless to bash; Princess Samantha doesn’t care and lives her life the way she wants, except about the one boy she can’t have. Then, there’s the other twin, Prince Jefferson.
We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han is realistic fiction and the third book in the series. Belly and Jeremiah have been inseparable in university for the past two years since Conrad told her to go with Jeremiah. Except, their relationship isn’t so picture-perfect like Belly had imagined. After Jeremiah makes a horrible and irreversible mistake, Belly rethinks her choice. She isn’t sure if she’s still over Conrad and she isn’t sure if she can forgive Jeremiah.
It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han is realistic fiction and the second book in the series. Summer at Cousins Beach isn’t the same anymore. With Susannah’s sickness and Conrad’s care gone, nothing is the same. Belly gets a call from Jeremiah saying Conrad was gone. Belly knows exactly what everyone needs: a summer in Cousins like how it used to be, the three of them ending the summers with the way it started.
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han is a realistic fiction. Isabel (Belly) Conklin has spent every summer of her life at Cousins Beach with her mom’s best friend and her two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Every summer, she has been in love with Conrad Fisher. But this summer, she’s grown up and this is the summer where everything changes.
Before Laura Jean’s mother passed away, she gave her an empty hatbox to put all her secrets in. Laura Jean chose to put letters to the 5 boys she has loved. She never meant for these to be sent, but then all of the sudden the boys she wrote to are showing her the letters. Laura Jean has too much to deal with, with her sister Margot moving away, helping at home, and now sorting out her love life! The question is, what will the boys she wrote to think about the letters? Maybe there will be some relationships starting for the wrong reasons.
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter is a romantic comedy featuring Liz Buxbaum. Liz is obsessed with having a kind of love found in her favorite movies. When her childhood crush, Michael, returns to her hometown, she can’t help but wonder if it is fate. Liz decides that she must get him to ask her to prom. But in order for Liz to accomplish this, she will have to work alongside Wes, her lifelong neighbor and nemesis.
Matched by Ally Condie takes place in the Society, where everything is chosen for all of the citizens. Cassia believes in every decision they make, from occupation to who she will marry one day. When she gets her best friend, Xander, as her match, Cassia is overjoyed. However, when she looks at information about Xander, another name pops up: Ky. Cassia then has to choose between the two, while questioning if the Society really has the best intentions for its citizens.
Love in English is written by Maria E. Andreu. It’s a young adult romance. The main character is Ana, a girl from Argentina in South America who loves writing poetry. Her family moved to the United States and Ana and her mother are struggling to adapt to the new place. Back home, she had plenty of true, laugh-until-you-cry friends but in her new school, finding friends is going to be a special kind of struggle. On top of that, Ana speaks Spanish and learning second languages doesn’t come easily.
Super Fake Love Song was quite a raw story of how a boy (Sunny Dae) changes himself in order to impress a girl. The moment I read about how Sunny was going to act like he was this really cool rock star to impress his new (and attractive) neighbor, Cirrus Soh, I had a feeling it would be quite a chaotic book. So basically, Sunny makes himself like his cool brother when his brother was in high school.
