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Summer Learning: YA Summer Romances

Summer can be such a romantic season, and nothing shows this better than some great teen romances. Revisit and savor the sweet and fleeting moments of summer love in these reads. This is a booklist that features selections for Teens (12-17). Selected by SJPL Staff.

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  • Mia Peters, a recent high school graduate, has one last summer to spend with her best friend/sometimes more than friend Britt before Britt heads to Music City to start a career in music. Songwriting becomes her refuge as she navigates these…
    Book, 2024Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2024. — YA FICTION Holford
  • A sweet and swoony YA rom-com about two friends making a pact to find summer romance like they’ve seen in the movies—and finding love where they least expect it along the way!
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Amulet Books, 2024. — YA FICTION Stoeve
  • Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Last summer, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She’s waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of…
    Book, 2023Montclair : Levine Querido, 2023. — YA FICTION Brown
  • Seventeen-year-old June tries to mend her friendship with her best friend Graham after a lapse in judgement, but her summer is complicated by her mother's decision to move in with her boyfriend and his surly daughter.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — YA FICTION Markum
  • After a year marred by bad relationships, sisters Lydia and Penny decide to spend a boy-free summer with their aunt in Los Angeles, but Lydia might need to bend the rules when she starts falling for Fran, the first girl who reciprocates Lydia's…
    Book, 2023New York : Amulet Books, [2023] — YA FICTION Spalding
  • Three months after she breaks up with her now ex, Dean, seventeen-year-old Kaylee and her family go on their annual vacation with Dean's family, and so to avoid an awkward trip, Kaylee tries to set some ground rules with him but finds herself…
    Book, 2023New York : Viking Children's Books, 2023. — YA FICTION Wibberle
  • Eighteen-year-old Cor Cabot navigates first love and the loss of her best friend, all while working on her summer internship to save whales on Cape Cod.
    Book, 2022New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [2022] — YA FICTION George
  • Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and…
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2022. — YA FICTION Han
  • As cast members of a reality dating show for single parent families Cara Hawn and her mother go to Key West where Cara meets Connor and now she must juggle her growing feelings while helping her mom pick a bachelor they both love.
    Book, 2022New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2022] — YA FICTION Mangle
  • Waverly Lyons has been caught in the middle of her parents' divorce for as long as she can remember. This summer, the battle rages over who she'll spend her vacation with, and when Waverly's options are shot down, it's bye-bye Fairbanks, Alaska and…
    Book, 2022Toronto, ON : Wattpad Books, 2022. — YA FICTION Marchant
  • At summer camp, sixteen-year-olds Paisley and Hayden, two teens with nothing in common, come together to help break up a romance and unexpectedly start one of their own.
    Book, 2022New York : Underlined, [2022] — YA FICTION Rains
  • Seventeen-year-old Lara's dream of catching Chase Harding's eye finally comes true even as Jasmine, with whom she just spent a confusing, oddly romantic summer, reenters her life.
    Book, 2021New York : Wednesday Books, 2021. — YA FICTION Adler
  • Janna Yusuf and her friends are planning for her brother's nikah. But what started as a simple marriage ceremony is turning into the biggest event of the summer--and a chance for Janna to finally reveal her crush...or so she thinks.
    Book, 2021New York : Salaam Reads, [2021] — YA FICTION Ali
  • Abby spends the summer after her senior year of high school--and a life-changing diagnosis--with her aunt on Catalina Island, reconnecting with family, forging a new path, and finding love.
    Book, 2021New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] — YA FICTION Etting
  • Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda are two high school students who share a common hobby: They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends, until one day, when Chiharu confesses his love for Wataru. Wataru says that Chiharu's…
    Book, 2021New York : Kodansha Comics, [2021] — YA FICTION MY SUMMER OF YOU
  • A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget. From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes You Have a Match, a hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship.
    Book, 2021New York : Wednesday Books, 2021. — YA FICTION Lord
  • When popular high school senior-to-be Penny Harris kisses her best friend's boyfriend at a summer party hosted by Penny's boyfriend, she spends the summer trying to set things right.
    Book, 2021New York : Razorbill, 2021. — YA FICTION Lund
  • When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2021. — YA FICTION Menon
  • Morgan is desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2021. — YA FICTION GIRL FROM THE SEA
  • The discovery of a packet of old letters sends seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg to Nantucket to unravel a family mystery about her grandmother's past, but things get complicated when Abby meets the cute grandson of a prominent family who wants to…
    Book, 2021New York : Razorbill, 2021. — YA FICTION Reynolds