A classic youth romance novel in its home of the Netherlands, and translated into English from the original Dutch. Deciding to break away from everything, Tycho Zeling flies to America to spend his summer as a camp counselor, where he meets Oliver,…
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- Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band--if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. But while interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easygoing guy who…
- Over the course of a much-anticipated spring break trip to New York, an unexpected fling blossoms between casual acquaintances and throws a long-term friendship off-balance. Emotional tensions vibrate wildly against the resplendently illustrated…
- Eric "Bitty" Bittle is a baking vlogger, and a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team. Jack is the team's captain and star player, seriously good-looking, and way out of Bitty's league...right?
- Ariel Stone is the picture-perfect college applicant until a failed Calculus quiz sends his grades into a tailspin that can only be halted by a handsome tutor. But adding a burgeoning romance to his other commitments may push Ariel past his limit.
- After Yamilet Flores's ex-best-friend outed her to their entire school, Yami transfers to a Catholic high school and tries to keep her priorities straight: keep her brother out of trouble, make her mom proud, and, most importantly, don't fall in…
- Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taquería and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by immigration police.
- Morgan wants out of her idyllic island life. Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore. But Keltie has some secrets of her…
- When seventeen-year-old Lily Hu and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club, America in 1954 was not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia…
- In teenager Boo's daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi,…
- Maisie is looking forward to meeting her idol, Kara Bufano, at Fancon. Kara is the action hero from her favorite TV show, who has a lower-leg amputation, just like Maisie. But then Maisie meets Ollie there. Ollie is kind, charming, and geeks out…
- Momo Gardner is introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people. PG has a reputation for being a flirt and a player, but she's actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls…
- Reza has just moved to the city from Iran, where he struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality. All he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they…
- When her girlfriend dumped her after finding out she's asexual, Alice is done with dating. But then Alice meets Takumi and she can't stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for (uncertainty, butterflies, and…
- Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson's New Year resolutions include winning back his ex-boyfriend and winning the Midwest's biggest classical piano competition, but when a new, proudly queer boy moves to town, Miles reconsiders who he was and…
- When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister and her husband. In a new home, at a new school, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their…
- Serene would love to get her own couture business just like her mother's, but not like this! Following her mother's cancer diagnosis, Serene wonders if she should try to track down her absent father. She joins her school's new Chinese Club, started…
- When handsome Liam lands a role in the high school play, both theatre kid Jackson and his little sister Jasmine start falling for him. Who wins? And what does Liam want?
- Lou plans to spend the summer working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend--whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort--and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after…
- Teenage Prince Jones has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, and dreams of becoming a professional DJ. But that's on hold while he cares for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother. Dani Ford has no…
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