Marie, Racquel

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ophelia Rojas, well known for her rose garden and her dramatic crushes on every boy in sight, begins to question her sexuality and sense of self when she starts to fall for cute, quiet Talia Sanchez in the weeks leading up to their high school prom and graduation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022

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Reyes, Sonora

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2022

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Schumacher, Ashley

Summary: Told in alternating perspectives, in a small town in Texas, mellophone player Weston Ryan and saxophonist Anna James are forced to work together on a duet for their school's marching band competition.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022

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Ireland, Meredith

Summary: Kelsie and Eric, rivals for valedictorian, team up to go on an overnight road trip to the University of Pennsylvania to win back their exes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022

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Forest, Kristina

Summary: While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a storm) high school seniors, Zyla Matthews and Kai Johnson, run away together leaving their friends and family confused. As far as everyone knows, Zyla and Kai have been broken up for months. And honestly? Their break up hadn't surprised anyone. Zyla and Kai met while working together at an amusement park the previous summer,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2022

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Patel, Sajni

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Kareena Thakkar finally admits she is a top-level Muay Thai fighter, knowing that might further alienate her from her Indian community, her classmates, especially handsome Amit, enthusiastically support her.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2021

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Roasek, Rachel

Summary: Seventeen-year-old overachiever Sam attemtps to encourage a love connection between her athletic ex-boyfriend Christian and her academic rival Ros while trying not to fall for Ros herself.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022

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Ivery, Kwame

Summary: Told in two voices, the budding romance between tenth-graders Uly Gates and Sallie Walls is tested when their sisters run against each other in a racially-charged campaign for student-body president.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2021

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Dugan, Jennifer

Summary: A baseball pitcher and a student umpire fall for one another against league regulations and must keep it secret.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024

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Laure, Estelle

Summary: At a party, Jo Beckett finds out that the boys on the wrestling team she manages consider her a "practice girl": good enough to hook up with but not to date. Now Jo feels , ashamed, betrayed, and angry, but refuses to let that label define her. In piecing her life back together, she must face uncomfortable truths about all her relationships-- from her best friend to the boy she likes-- that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

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Bhuiyan, Tashie

Summary: "Accidentally sabotaging an up-and-coming local band, music fanatic Liana Sarkar makes it her mission to secretly undo the damage she's caused, but when she falls for the lead singer, she finds it harder to hide the truth"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2024

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Weatherspoon, Rebekah

Summary: At sixteen, Bethany Greene has never had a boyfriend, date, or first kiss. She's determined to change, and agrees to Homecoming to go with her best friend's boyfriend Jacob Yeun: a platonic date is better than no date, right? The Jacob's girlfriend breaks up with him. Dumped twice in two months, Jacob decides to make the best of an awkward situation. They decide to fake date for practice,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2023

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Randall, Christen

Summary: When her boyfriend excludes her from participating in a roleplaying game, high school senior Hollie joins an all-girls group where an in-game romance has the potential to be more than just pretend.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024

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