When Lilah becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind, her plan is to brush up on her ASL. Once there, she also finds a community.
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Summer romance from Multcolib Teens
Love at camp and on the job. Unexpected romance between longtime friends. Crushes becoming something more. What will summer bring?
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- Eleanor's famous father doesn't know she exists when she applies to be summer nanny for the half-brother. With some well-placed lies, Eleanor is catapulted into an unfamiliar whirlwind of money and ego, and into romance with a cute boy who also…
- Sixteen-year-old Bibi's summer plans for romance take an unexpected turn when her sister gets engaged, sending her to Bangladesh for the wedding. At least there's the groom's younger brother.
- After breaking his leg and having his summer plans and college dreams dashed, high school football star Theo Claverback finds a new purpose and relationship while working as a prep cook in a high-end restaurant.
- Last summer, Andrea Williams spent all her time recuperating from surgery for her cerebral palsy. This summer she plans to live it up and part of that means falling out of love with her best friend, Hailee. Even if it means dating George.
- In need of inspiration for her self-help book, sixteen-year-old straightlaced Audre hires seventeen-year-old easygoing Bash to be her fun consultant for a summer full of daring experiences and undeniable romance.
- At Camp Outland, a camp for LGBTQIA teens, sixteen-year-old Randall "Del" Kapplehoff's plan to have Hudson Aaronson-Lim fall in love with him succeeds, but both are hiding their true selves.
- Juliette and her school rival Priya Pendley, navigate a truce to peacefully coexist, but when Priya unexpectedly becomes Juliette's cabinmate at Fogridge Sleepaway Camp, their uneasy peace turns into something more.
- Two solo concertgoers, Kai and Elias, share a romantic summer night together when the concert is cut short by a blackout.
- Ivy seeks solace as a summer camp counselor after a bad breakup. However, she unexpectedly clashes with the co-director of the summer musical, Rynn, who is bossy and overconfident. Even worse, they have unresolved history from their past.
- When Clara takes a prank too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe it won't be so bad when there's a cute boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her.
- While working at country music legend Wanda Jean's amusement park, polar opposites Emmett and Luke become inseparable until a long-lost secret about Emmett's idol and Luke's grandmother, a disgraced singer, comes to light.
- After graduation, Lila's parents make a new plan for her: Spend three months in England to reset. What would be a dream trip for some feels more like a nightmare to Lila. Until she meets Orion Maxwell.
- "Two childhood best friends reunite in L.A. the summer before senior year--but when one of them ends up starring on a teen reality dating show, their feelings for each other get complicated."
- "Six authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark."
- Harlem teenager Nala is looking forward to a summer of movies and ice cream until she falls in love with the very woke Tye and pretends to be a social activist.
- A lovesick teenager schemes to win the heart of her crush at her amusement park summer job, all while dressed as a hot dog.
- Chiharu and Wataru become fast friends over the summer over a shared love of movies. When Chiharu confesses his love for Wataru. Wataru says his confession doesn't bother him. But Wataru realizes that he may not be as unaffected as he claimed.
- Jamie's life is upended when he learns he's the heir to the throne of a European country. His newfound father hires the prince of another country to tutor him about life as a royal and neither prince anticipates their connection.
- The discovery of a packet of old letters sends 17-year-old Abby 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 stop her from…
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