Once Upon a Quinceañera
By: Monica Gomez-Hira
3.61
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Except apparently “happily ever…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Honestly...welcome to the world the rest of us live in, where we're trying our best and still end up just mostly OK, and somehow manage to get up in the morning in spite of that."-Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera
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1. Lotería
By: Mario Alberto Zambrano
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Hardcover
A young girl tells the story of her family's tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous M… read more
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2. The Jasmine Project
By: Meredith Ireland
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Jenny Han meets The Bachelorette in this effervescent romantic comedy about a teen Korean American … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
3. Abuela, Don't Forget Me
By: Rex Ogle
4.50
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In his memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this compa… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one…"-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me
"She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and…"-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me
4. Once Upon a Quinceañera
By: Monica Gomez-Hira
3.61
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Except apparently “happily ever… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
"Honestly...welcome to the world the rest of us live in, where we're trying our best and still end up just mostly OK, and somehow manage to get up in the morning in spite of that."-Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera
5. A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)
By: Laura Taylor Namey
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this highly anticipated companion to the New York Times bestseller A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea a… read more
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- romance
- young adult romance
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Why is it so hard to choose a direction? Part of it is that I've lost the ability to trust any of my own decisions. But there's another gap here, one I can't name. It's a Polaroid I shake and shake, …"-Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)
6. Everything Within and In Between
By: Nikki Barthelmess
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ri Fernández struggles to reclaim a heritage and a mother from her strict grandmother who has kept … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
7. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
By: Crystal Maldonado
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole lif… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Right! You see me as superhuman! That’s some serious pressure."-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"Just—promise me girls you won't devalue yourselves for anyone. And I mean anyone. You can't. You have to really be kind to yourself and look out for yourself because the world can be cold and cruel. …"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"Sometimes I didn't get it [jokes] at all, but that didn't stop him from going out of his way to make me laugh. He was always just trying his best, and that's what I loved. I know I will never replace…"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"You need to believe in your value for you, even if you’re not some flawless ethereal being, even if not everyone will see what makes you special, even if your story is a little chaotic. We’re all mes…"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
8. Artifice
By: Sharon Cameron
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of Wor… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
9. Being Mary Bennet
By: J.C. Peterson
3.68
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acerbic and delightful, this YA rom-com about a girl who resolves to become the main character of h… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
10. Love in English
By: Maria E. Andreu
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen-year-old Ana has just moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school… read more
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- romance
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
"My family is not running a marathon. We're running a relay. My parents have gotten me this far. Everything I do is to get us further. I carry their hopes along with my own."-Maria E. Andreu, Love in English
"I lack precisely the thing to explain what I lack. The words. For every word I get out, there's a whole iceberg of thoughts and hopes and feelings that stay unspoken. But how do I speak them?"-Maria E. Andreu, Love in English
11. Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
By: Abigail Hing Wen
3.68
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
When eighteen-year-old Ever Wong’s parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the s… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I don't care what baggage they dragged over the ocean. They have no right to make me carry it the rest of my life."-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
"--and at every turn, he finds excuses to touch me, pushing money into my hand, running his palm down my back, around the curve of my waist."-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
"He takes his time. A slow burn that builds and builds, until I am clawing at the stones and my back arches, and my toes splash and my body ripens under his grip."-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
"I snatch my body as well as my bad from Rick. My heart pounds in my throat. His hand and arm have branded themselves through the fabric of my clothes into my skin."-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
12. All Alone with You
By: Amelia Diane Coombs
4.11
Format: 352 pages, ebook
HBO Max’s Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this swoon-worthy novel about … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Throwback
By: Maurene Goo
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American … read more
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- romance
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
14. Debating Darcy
By: Sayantani DasGupta
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This Pride & Prejudice retelling brings New York Times bestselling Sayantani DasGupta’s trademark w… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
15. Be Dazzled
By: Ryan La Sala
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern ma… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"... Carb-e Diem. Seize the bread."-Ryan La Sala, Be Dazzled
"Maybe it’s hardest to begin the things we know will bring about ends."-Ryan La Sala, Be Dazzled
16. The Voting Booth
By: Brandy Colbert
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She's always been driven to make a difference in the wo… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"And I know, deep down, that it was the right thing to do, but my chest still hurts the same way it does on the last day of school or New Year's Eve or the night before my birthday. It's the end of a …"-Brandy Colbert, The Voting Booth
17. This Train Is Being Held
By: Ismée Amiel Williams
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When private school student Isabelle Warren first meets Dominican-American Alex Rosario on the down… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- young adult romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Chrissy shakes her head. “Listen, sometimes you don’t know a person’s whole story."-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held
"Alex stares out onto the empty platform. “Do you hate me? For not answering your messages?"-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held
"Because it doesn’t matter where you come from. If you work hard enough, you can do anything. Become anyone."-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held
"I always take the same car now, fifth one from the front. I pretend it's the best car, least crowded, closest to where I'm going. Even when I have to walk half a platform to get on and off. I pretend…"-Ismée Amiel Williams, This Train Is Being Held
18. The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
By: Erin Loechner
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Discover a new and hopeful path forward as you consider your family's approach to social media, scr… read more
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- audiobook
19. Sunrise Nights
By: Jeff Zentner
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Love seems to die around me."-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights
20. A Whole Song and Dance
By: Sarvenaz Tash
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Nasrin Mahdavi is an Iranian-American college freshman who's a triple threat on Broadway—but she's … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
