😭Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry - Joya Goffney (YA)

Romance without sex scenes

Quinn keeps lists of everything—from the days she’s ugly cried, to “Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud,” to all the boys she’d like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing…

An anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire journal will go public. Quinn doesn’t know who to trust. Desperate, she teams up with Carter Bennett—the last known person to have her journal—in a race against time to track down the blackmailer.

Together, they journey through everything Quinn’s been too afraid to face, and along the way, Quinn finds the courage to be honest, to live in the moment, and to fall in love.

💻Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (YA)

¡The manga adaptation of the novel Fangirl by
Rainbow Rowell!

Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath just can't let go. Now that they’re in college, Cath must decide if she’s ready to start living her own life. But does she even want to if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Cath doesn’t need friends IRL. She has her twin sister, Wren, and she’s a popular fanfic writer in the Simon Snow community with thousands of fans online. But now that she’s in college, Cath is completely outside of her comfort zone. There are suddenly all these new people in her life. She's got a surly roommate with a charming boyfriend, a writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome new writing partner ... And she's barely heard from Wren all semester!

Fangirl, Vol. 1: The Manga

Rainbow Rowell

Sam Maggs (Adapter)

Gabi Nam (Illustrator)

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👀 School of fear by Gitty Daneshvari (MG)

Everyone is afraid of something...

Madeleine is deathly afraid of spiders.

Theodore is petrified of dying.

Lulu is scared of confined spaces.

Garrison is terrified of deep water.

With very few options left, the parents of these four twelve year-olds send them to the highly elusive and exclusive School of Fear to help them overcome their phobias. But when their peculiar teacher, Mrs. Wellington, and her unconventional teaching methods turn out to be more frightening than even their fears, the foursome realize that this just may be the scariest summer of their lives.

Middle grade adventure humor 352 pages

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😁 Smile by Raina Telgemeier (MG)

Comic / Graphic Novel / Middle Grade

Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader.

But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there’s still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly. This coming-of-age true story is sure to resonate with anyone who has ever been in middle school, and especially those who have ever had a bit of their own dental drama.

🗯️5 Comic Middle Grade (MG)

#1 Best Friends by Shannon Hale

#2New Kid by Jerry Craft

#3 Stepping Stone by Lucy Knisley

#4 Smile by Raina Telgemeier

#5 Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova

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🗝️The boy who steals Houses by C. G. Drews (YA)

Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. Now Sam's trying to build a new life for them. He survives by breaking into empty houses when their owners are away, until one day he's caught out when a family returns home. To his amazement this large, chaotic family takes him under their wing - each teenager assuming Sam is a friend of another sibling. Sam finds himself inexplicably caught up in their life, and falling for Moxie.But Sam has a secret, and his past is about to catch up with him.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #family  #friends