29 Jul Days in the Sun: Books for the Last Days of Summer
Summer vacation may be ending soon, but the season is still going strong! As we wind down, here are some summer-y reads from our collection in Teen Central!
Love In Ruins
by Auriane Desombre
Natalie and Luca have always wanted to go to Greece, so when they get the chance for a summer holiday, they jump at it. Wanting to get over her nasty breakup and recent OCD diagnosis, Natalie never imagined that she might meet a beautiful girl on her trip: Melanie. With Natalie’s friendship with Luca on the rocks, can she make it through the summer with her mental health intact, and her heart healed?
Sea Change
by Susan Fletcher
As one of a few genetically-modified children, Turtle lives a life under the sea. She is a Mer, but she yearns for a normal life, like what Kai has. He makes her happy, but is that worth possibly losing her found family under the sea?
The Summer I Turned Pretty
by Jenny Han
If anything good happens to Belly, it’s because it happens during the summer. The magical time between June and August is when she can escape her mediocre life, and the boys that haunt her mind. However, one summer changes everything between her and Jeremiah and Conrad forever.
Seasick
by Kristin Cast and Pintip Dunn
Naya and Yana have joined the upper echelons of the recent graduates of Yatesville High, and their prize is a luxury yacht trip in Bermuda. Despite their rocky friendship, and the hostility of their fellow passengers, they are ready to have a great time. However, unfortunately for everybody, there’s a killer on the boat with them. When someone turns up murdered, the only way Yana and Naya can stay alive is to rekindle their friendship.
Love & Gelato
by Jenna Evans Welch
Tuscany is beautiful, but Lina isn’t in the mood to indulge in a summer trip to Italy. She is only there because her mother’s dying wish was for her to get to know her father. However, the man wasn’t in her life for sixteen years, so why should she try? However, after finding her mother’s old journal, perhaps the secrets inside can answer everything.
Sunkissed
by Kasie West
After a devastating friendship breakup, Avery is struggling to pick up the pieces. When her family brings her to a family camp for the next two months, Avery is sure that it will be a nightmare. However, meeting Brooks changes everything. Despite being staff at the camp, Avery finds herself wanting to take a chance…
The Summer of Us
by Cecilia Vinesse
Five Friends. A European tour. Aubrey, Rae, Jonah, Clara, and Gabe are ready to do it all before Aubrey has to go to college at the end of the summer. However, in the midst of their tour, all kinds of secrets come to light, and they must decide if their friendship is strong enough to make it out of this trip intact.
The Forgotten Summer of Seneca
by Camryn Garret
Still mourning her father, Rowan has little interest in staying with her aunt in New York. However, when she takes her dad’s old camera to Central Park one day, she finds a strange portal amongst the greenery. Inside, there’s a whole village of magical people. When the girl who was supposed to guard the portal disappears, only Rowan– and her new friend Lily– can find out what happened.
Sinner’s Isle
by Angela Montoya
Rosalinda wants nothing more than to escape Sinner’s Isle. When pirate Mariano washes up on shore, she is sure that he will be her ticket out. Together, using trickery and magic, they must escape the island before the Offering ends… or Rosa fears she may be forced into using her powers for destruction.
In Deeper Waters
by F. T. Lukens
Prince Tal is on his coming of age tour, when the crew of his ship encounters a mysterious man on a burning vessel. Brought aboard, Tal quickly bonds with the roguish Athlen, against his better judgement. When Tal is kidnapped by pirates, he worries most that they will force him to reveal his dangerous powers. With his family in danger, Athlen may be the only person who can save him…
– written by Ajax T, Teen Central Library Assistant
