Contemporary Fiction-OBR Teen Books and Boba Book Club July 2024

YA novels are made up of books for a wide age range (12-18 years old) and includes a variety of different topics and interests. Not all titles will be appropriate for all readers*
 

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1. Clap when you land

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Author:
Acevedo, Elizabeth
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Description:
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...

2. Fadeaway

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Author:
Stokes, Maura Ellen
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA STOKES
Fuquay-Varina Community - Young Adult
YA STOKES
Northeast Regional - Young Adult
YA STOKES
Description:
Fourteen-year-old Sam is struggling to get by without her best friend, Reagan, who died suddenly the summer before high school, but Regan's "reappearance" only helps temporarily.

3. If I stay

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Author:
Forman, Gayle
Series:
If I stay volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

4. Summer bird blue

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Author:
Bowman, Akemi Dawn
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA BOWMAN
East Regional - Young Adult has 5
YA BOWMAN
Fuquay-Varina Community - Young Adult
YA BOWMAN
Description:
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.