JCL Summer Reading 2025: Teens!Like this list

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• The Alchemyst

  Scott, Michael, 1959-

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  Having discovered the secret to eternal youth, 14th-century alchemist Nicholas Flamel and his wife are alive and well in present-day San Francisco, California. But they won't stay well if 15-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman don't fulfill their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Awakening

  Epps, Omar,

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  In a New York ravaged by climate change and class division where Nubians live as outcasts, three friends must decide whether to use their newly-discovered (and terrifying) powers to lift their people up or to leave them behind.

• Betting on You

  Painter, Lynn,

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  While working at a hotel waterpark, polar opposites Bailey and Charlie make bets on their co-workers' romantic lives, but when they start to fall for each other, Charlie has a secret that if revealed could doom their relationship before it starts.

• Brownstone

  Teer, Samuel,

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  In the summer of 1995, almost-fifteen-year-old Almudena is sent to live with her estranged Spanish-speaking father, and together they renovate a brownstone and build a relationship while Almudena navigates the Latin American side of her heritage for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Give Me a Sign

  Sortino, Anna,

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  Ready for a change, Lilah, who suffers from hearing loss, becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind where she finds a community and a gorgeous Deaf counselor who volunteers to help her with her signing, stealing her heart in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pearl

  Smith, Sherri L.,

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  Amy is a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl from Hawaii. When visiting Japan, Amy is conscripted into translating English radio transmissions for the Japanese army. Fearing for her family amidst rumors of internment camps in America, Amy must…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Promise Boys

  Brooks, Nick, 1989-

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  Becoming prime suspects in the murder of their principal known for doling out extreme discipline, three Urban Promise Prep School students team up to catch the real killer and clear their names.

• The Rest of the Story

  Dessen, Sarah

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  Unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her late mother's estranged relatives at scenic North Lake, a teen finds herself torn between her mother's working-class relatives and her father's wealthier associates.

• Sky's End

  Gregson, Marc J.,

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  To save the only family he has left from his murderous uncle, a teenager must learn a dangerous and lethal occupation, Hunter, where he overhears whispers of rebellion in the dark while enduring vigorous training, manipulative peers and, finally,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• That's Not My Name

  Lally, Megan,

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  Told in two voices, a seventeen-year-old battered and bruised girl struggles to remember who she or the man claiming to be her father is while seventeen-year-old Drew stops at nothing to find his missing girlfriend.