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This was a really cute YA book about two teens who get caught up in the drama between their two family businesses (one much larger than the other) and discover that they may be friends (or something more) along the way. I really enjoyed both Jack and Pepper, though I thought both of their families stunk. Jack’s a little less-so than Pepper’s. Pepper’s mother was
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“Sometimes in life, terrible things happened. And sometimes really, really amazing things happened. And sometimes, those things all kind of happened at once.” This book was a goddamned delight. Ollie has spent the summer away from his California home, spending time with his sick aunt and helping her out in North Carolina. He expected to be babysitting all summer, but he wasn’t expecting to meet
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This was a cute teen romance that is, unusually, from the boy’s perspective. Homer has fallen in love with Mia, the unusual girl who is living in a boat in the parking lot of his fathers’ tourist gift shop. But Mia has bigger problems than where she’s living — she’s pregnant and has no family. The only plan that makes sense to her is to
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