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The Borrow a Boyfriend Club

Page Powars - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who joins a boyfriend borrowing service masquerading as an Italian Club to prove that he's one of the guys, especially to its frustratingly handsome leader.. Noah Byrd is the perfect boy. At least,...
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THIS IS HOW YOU FALL IN LOVE

Anika Hussain
Format: Hardcover

Zara and Adnan are just friends. Always have been, always will be. Even if they have to pretend to be girlfriend and boyfriend.... Zara loves love in all forms: 90s romcoms and romance novels and grand sweeping gestures. And she's desperate to have her own great love story. Crucially,...
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Flip the Script

Lyla Lee - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback

In this simmering, joyous novel, I'll Be the One author Lyla Lee delivers a tender romance set between two brave teens who decide that when the script isn't working, it's time to rewrite it themselves. The first rule of watching K-dramas: Never fall in love with the second lead....
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Her Good Side

Rebekah Weatherspoon - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens who decide to practice dating in order to be good at the real thing. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han.. Sixteen-year-old Bethany Greene, though confident and self-assured, is what...
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Betting on You

Lynn Painter
Format: electronic resource

A New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies, this "entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) rom-com in the vein of She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You follows a teen girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of a bet while working...
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They Hate Each Other

Amanda Woody - ‎Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Jonah and Dylan get along like oil and water. Until a fake dating ploy gives them new perspective, and they realize that "falling for your enemy" isn't as impossible as it seems.There are plenty of words Jonah Collins could use to describe Dylan Ramírez. "Arrogant,"...
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The Love Match

Priyanka Taslim - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets Pride and Prejudice in this delightful and heartfelt rom-com about a Bangladeshi American teen whose meddling mother arranges a match to secure their family's financial security - just as she's falling in love with someone else.Zahra Khan...
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Forward March

Skye Quinlan
Format: Hardcover

What's worse? Someone using your face for catfishing or realizing you actually do have a crush on the catfished girl?Harper "Band Geek" McKinley just wants to make it through her senior year of marching band -- and her Republican father's presidential campaign. That was a tall...
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Fake Dates and Mooncakes (Underlined)

Sher Lee - Underlined
Format: Paperback

Heartstopper meets Crazy Rich Asians in this heartfelt, joyful paperback original rom-com that follows an aspiring chef who discovers the recipe for love is more complicated than it seems when he starts fake-dating a handsome new customer.. Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival...
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Loveboat, Taipei

Abigail Hing Wen - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen, and praised as "an intense rush of rebellion and romance" by #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber, this romantic and layered Own Voices debut from Abigail Hing Wen is a dazzling, fun-filled romp. "Our cousins...
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The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

Sonora Reyes
Format: Hardcover

A sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. Perfect for fans of Erika L. Snchez, Leah Johnson, and Gabby Rivera.Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer...
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Hot Dog Girl

Jennifer Dugan - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A fresh and funny contemporary YA rom-com about teens working as costumed characters in a local amusement part."I'm wrecked with love for this funny, joyful, bighearted book." --Becky Albertalli, bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaElouise (Lou) Parker...
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Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

Rebecca Barrow
Format: Hardcover

Fake relationships. Enemies to lovers. Love triangles and best friends, mistaken identities and missed connections. This collection of genre-bending and original stories celebrates how love always finds a way, featuring powerful flora, a superhero and his nemesis, a fantastical sled race...
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She Drives Me Crazy

Kelly Quindlen
Format: Hardcover

After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, who is as beautiful as she is mean. When the damage sends Irene's car to the shop for weeks'...
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Some Other Now

Sarah Everett - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Before she kissed one of the Cohen boys, seventeen-year-old Jessi Rumfield knew what it was like to have a family - even if, technically, that family didn't belong to her. She'd spent her childhood in the house next door, challenging Rowan Cohen to tennis matches while his older...
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Rent a Boyfriend

Gloria Chao - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn't met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your 'Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan's...
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Counting Down with You

Tashie Bhuiyan
Format: Hardcover

In this sparkling and romantic YA debut, a reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school's resident bad boy.How do you make one month last a lifetime?Karina Ahmed has a plan. Keep her head down, get through...
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Frankly in Love

David Yoon - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller!Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents....
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To All the Boys Ive Loved Before

Jenny Han - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

To All the Boys Ive Loved Before is now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix! What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them...all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They arent love letters that...
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Meet Cute Diary

Emery Lee
Format: Hardcover


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Like a Love Song

Gabriela Martins - Underlined
Format: Paperback

Fake boyfriend. Real heartbreak? Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star... until she's dumped spectacularly on live television. Not only is it humiliating--it could end her career.Her PR team's desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake...
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Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

Adiba Jaigirdar - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khan -- she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she's...
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Fake It Till You Break It

Jenn P. Nguyen - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

Mia and Jake have known each other their whole lives. They've endured summer vacations, Sunday brunches, even dentist visits together. Their mothers, who are best friends, are convinced that Mia and Jake would be the perfect couple, even though they can't stand to be in the same room together....
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Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed

Marissa Meyer - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

The secret admirer.The fake relationship.The matchmaker.From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that's been there all along, 10 of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning...
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