Dog Days of Summer: Best Teen Books to Read This Summer!

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Blackout

Blackout

Clayton, Dhonielle, author
2021

Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark.

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Flamer

Flamer

Curato, Mike, author, illustrator
2020

It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes-but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance.

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Hurricane summer

Hurricane summer

Bromfield, Asha, author
2021

While visiting her father who lives in Jamaica, eighteen-year-old Tilla faces a storm of dark secrets that threaten to unravel her own life, while an actual storm, Hurricane Gustav, threatens the lives of those she loves.

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Love & gelato

Love & gelato

Welch, Jenna Evans, author
2016


Misfit in love

Misfit in love

Ali, S. K., author
2021

"Janna Yusuf and her friends are planning for her brother's nikah. But what started as a simple marriage ceremony is turning into the biggest event of the summer-and a chance for Janna to finally reveal her crush... or so she thinks."-- Provided by publisher.

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My summer of love and misfortune

My summer of love and misfortune

Wong, Lindsay, author
2020

After a series of disastrous choices and rejections, seventeen-year-old Chinese American Iris Wang is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society as her cousin's English tutor.

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Panic

Panic

Oliver, Lauren, 1982-, author
2014


A peculiar peril

A peculiar peril

VanderMeer, Jeff, author
2020

The first book in a two-volume fantasy about a teenaged boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's ties to an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic.

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Summer days and summer nights : twelve love stories

Summer days and summer nights : twelve love stories

2017

Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom.

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The summer I turned pretty

The summer I turned pretty

Han, Jenny, author
2009


Summer in the city of roses

Summer in the city of roses

Keil, Michelle Ruiz, author.
2021

In 1990s Portland, Oregon, seventeen-year-old Iph, aided by George, a modern-day Robin Hood, seeks her sensitive fifteen-year-old brother, Orr, while Orr has escaped wilderness boot camp and is residing with The Furies, an all-girl punk band.

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Summer of salt

Summer of salt

Leno, Katrina, author
2018


Summer spirit

Summer spirit

Holleville, EĢlizabeth, 1988- author
2020

Summer Spirit puts a fresh spin on the struggles of growing up as this coming-of-age story takes a supernatural and sinister turn. Being a teenager is hard enough without finding out your new best friend is a 60 year old ghost... Louise spends every summer at her grandmother's house with her older sister and their cousins. But this summer, Louise realises her relatives are fast growing up, without her. While they're concerned with boy drama, Louise is suddenly left alone. But then one day she meets Lisa, who will never, ever become a teenager...

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This one summer

This one summer

Tamaki, Mariko, author
2014


We were liars

We were liars

Lockhart, E., author
2014