This witty rom-com is the perfect read for someone who’s looking for a book with equal measures intrigue and banter. Drawing you in straight away with the promise of adventure and magic, you quickly realise how relatable the characters and the plot of this book are as they navigate the intertwined worlds of magic and teenage angst. Because who at fourteen doesn’t want to be well liked and seen?
After Nadia’s best friend Lizzy dies, she discovers that Lizzy has left behind a list of sixteen things for her to complete. At first, it feels impossible—how can Nadia even think about moving forward without her? But the list takes her on a journey that is both emotional and life-changing, leading her across America. Along the way, she meets Fran and together they discover new ways of coping and finding hope.
This book will make you cry, but it will also make you laugh, sigh and long for summer.
Ren Barbosa, a passionate, impulsive climate activist with thousands of online followers is sent away to ‘cool off’ after one protest too many. She finds herself living and working on a farm run by the quiet but determined Pearl and her family. Pearl, an influencer in her own right, represents everything Ren claims to despise; calm, compromising, and cautious. Sparks fly from the start, but what begins as tension soon develops into a tender, complex, and deeply satisfying romance.
Danni is a new student to Bramppath College and is extremely aware of her status as a scholarship student in a school hosting students from some of Henland’s richest and most well-known families – one of those being Henland’s Crown Princess, Rose.
Aptly recommended for fans of The Atlas Six, in I.V. Marie’s Immortal Consequences purgatory is a form of academia, in which the characters learn magic, reap souls, and stroll the extensive and atmospheric grounds of Blackwood Academy. However, there’s a catch: if you’re there too long, you begin to lose your memories.
Bibi Hossain is resigned to spending her summer working at her family’s fried chicken restaurant in New Jersey when her sister, Halima, announces her engagement to the heir of a posh tea garden in Bangladesh. Bibi is thrilled to leave her dull summer behind for her sister’s ‘Big Fat Bangali Wedding’ in Bangladesh – she’s even more thrilled that her parents’ old-fashioned ban on boys until her older sister marries means she’s free to finally start dating!
Winter’s plans to skip town after graduation are complicated when her estranged father tries to reconnect with her, as well as by first love and a rekindled friendship with her childhood bestie. Yi deftly weaves multiple narrative threads together, exploring Winter’s grief, depression, and abandonment issues as she copes with living with an abusive mother and ailing grandmother.
When fifteen-year-old Cam unexpectedly experiences a public psychic vision on his first day in a new school, he has to scratch his plan to keep his head down as a human among students with paranormal powers. Learning that he is actually a clairvoyant, he becomes a reluctant main character among a diverse cast of both humans and supernatural beings such as werewolves, sprites, and witches. What he saw in the vision reveals that a horrific crime is going to take place. Will Cam and his friends be able to solve the mystery and prevent the crime from happening?
Loyalty is at the core of teenager Saachi’s nature: she is fiercely loyal to her family (except, significantly, her mother) and friends. When the school charmer, Fahim, ghosts her best friend – adding her to his cohort of discarded, heart-broken girls – Saachi vows retribution. She hatches a plan to dupe Fahim into falling for her and then callously inflict heartbreak on him. What Saachi doesn’t anticipate is that she begins to fall for Fahim. This conflict tests her loyalty to the limits.
