interpersonal relations

"Jesse Dienstag's favorite sweatshirt says, 'The real world isn't real.' That's the slogan of the vacation-home community in Pennsylvania where his family has always spent every vacation and weekend for as long as he can remember. In the summer of 2019, as Jesse is about to enter his junior year of high school in New York City, he desperately wants to believe the slogan is true. For one thing, the two girls he loves--equally and desperately--are in Pennsylvania, and all the stresses and pressures of his daily life and school are in New York. But when his parents stop talking to each other, it gets harder and harder for Jesse to maintain his dream life in Pennsylvania. And when Covid shuts New York City down in March 2020 just days after Jesse's mother leaves his father, Jesse's worlds collide"--Provided by publisher.

Best friends Eve and Andrew go to their first eight grade dance together, and suddenly everybody assumes they are dating, so they each try and arrange a break-up--except they are both beginning to feel a different kind of attraction.

"A kid's guide to accepting and understanding yourself, as well as loving who you are"--Provided by publisher.

Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.

Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way.

Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.

Thirteen-year-old budding writer Victoria's summer hits a few bumps when she develops feelings for her cute neighbor and tries to send her mom's new boyfriend packing.

Fifteen-year-old Haitian American Fancy navigates high school, friendship, and crushes.

"Due to a memory spell gone wrong, seventeen-year-old Aoife, the mainstay of her family's social media empire, and eighteen-year-old Luna, the most powerful witch in Magical Boston, get stuck in a cycle of falling for each other and forgetting one another every time they break up"--Provided by publisher.

Told over the course of forty-eight hours, seventeen-year-old Antonio Sullivan heads back to his old life in Des Moines, Washington, after being released from a youth detention center, but toxic old relationships and unforseen challenges make staying on the straight-and-narrow nearly impossible.