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Star-Crossed Romance for Teens

Romeo and Juliet? They got nothin' on these book characters. #WCCLS #AlohaLibrary

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  • Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. — YA ACEVEDO, E.
  • For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
    Book, 2011New York : Tor, 2011. — YA BLA
  • Forced to choose between their duty and their hearts, Mare and Denna must find a way to save their kingdoms--and each other.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] — YA COULTHURST, AUDREY
  • A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war.
    Book, 2019New York : Wednesday Books, 2019. — YA DUNCAN, EMI SKH #1
  • While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, Mia weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
    Book, 2009New York : Dutton Books, 2009. — YA FORMAN, GAY
  • Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
    Book, 2012New York : Dutton Books, [2012] — YA GREEN, J.
  • Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Bronte, and supernatural investigator Alexander…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
  • Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, -but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and…
    Book, 2019New York : Scholastic Press, 2019. — YA KHA
  • Seventeen-year-olds Stella and Will, both suffering from cystic fibrosis, realize the only way to stay alive is to stay apart, but their love for each other is slowly pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional safety.
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, Books for Young Readers, 2018. — YA LIPPINCOTT, RAC
  • Daniela Vargas is the Medio School for Girls' top student, but her pedigree is a lie. She must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society. And school couldn't prepare her for the difficult choices she must make after graduation,…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, 2019. — Y MEJIA
  • Jack and Kate met, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks. Jack falls-- hard. But then Kate dies. Somehow Kate's death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate's there…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — YA Reynolds
  • Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
    Book, 2013New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. — YA ROWELL, RAINBOW
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    the Rise and Fall of Simon Snow

    Rowell, Rainbow,
    Magic is disappearing all over England, leaving pockets of dead air that disable any magician in the vicinity. Somehow, everyone knows that the Insidious Humdrum is responsible, but who—or what?—is the Humdrum, and why does he look exactly like…
    Book, 2015New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2015. — YA ROWELL, R.
  • Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017. — YA SAN
  • Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
    Book, 2011New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2011. — YA TAYLOR, L.
  • In the aftermath of a war between gods and men, a hero, a librarian, and a girl must battle the fantastical elements of a mysterious city stripped of its name.
    Book, 2017New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — YA TAYLOR, L.
  • Madeline Whittier has had to watch the world from the inside of a bubble—literally. Her diagnosed condition of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency is a life sentence that limits her to a world of two people: her mother, who is a doctor, and her nurse.…
    Book, 2015New York : Delacorte Press, [2015] — YA Yoon
  • It's Natasha's last day in New York City, where she has lived for 10 years. Her family are being deported to Jamaica. Meanwhile, poetic Daniel is on his way to an interview as part of his application process to Yale. Events slowly conspire to bring…
    Book, 2016New York : Delacorte Press, [2016] — YA YOON Nicola