Feeling stressed? Take a look at these cheerful books for teens and tweens! While they are not 100% conflict-free, the stakes are low and the laughs are plentiful.
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Giant days. Volume one
by John Allison Three girls bond at university as they learn how to live away from home, battle the flu, and deal with obnoxious college boys. |
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Unclaimed baggage
by Jen Doll Told from three viewpoints, teens Doris, Nell, and Grant find friendship and the possibility of love while working in Unclaimed Baggage, a store that sells items that went missing during airline travel. |
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Somewhere only we know
by Maurene Goo Told from two viewpoints, teens Lucky, a very famous K-pop star, and Jack, a part-time paparazzo who is trying to find himself, fall for each other against the odds through the course of one stolen day. |
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My plain Jane
by Cynthia Hand The authors of My Lady Jane present a riotously gothic reimagining of Jane Eyre that features an orphan with a tragic past, an aspiring author and a supernatural investigator who team up for an epic ghost hunt. |
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Prez : Corndog-in-chief Volume 1, Corndog-in-chief
by Mark Russell Meet Beth Ross, the first teenaged President of the United States. In a nation where corporations can run for office, the poor are used as human billboards, and tacos are delivered by drone, our only hope is this nineteen-year-old Twitter sensation. Butthe real question isn't whether she's ready for politics--it's whether politics is ready for her. |
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by Mackenzi Lee A highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue finds Felicity Montague traveling incognito with a mysterious benefactor in the hope of securing a job assisting her idol, Dr. Alexander Pratt, who is marrying her former best friend. This also works as a standalone title! |
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Check please! : #hockey Book 1, #Hockey
by Ngozi Ukazu Hockey player and amateur vlogger Eric Bittle chronicles his freshman and sophomore year at Samwell University, where he joins the school hockey team and falls for its very attractive but moody captain, Jack Zimmerman. |
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The great Greene heist
by Varian Johnson When his ex and his rival with ties to the principal run for school president, reformed con artist Jackson Greene secretly assembles a team to ensure the election is run fairly, an effort complicated by his enduring feelings for his ex. |
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The Breakaways
by Cathy G Johnson When a popular student encourages her to join the soccer team, Faith signs up even though she has never played the game, and learns about loyalty and friendship. |
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The unbeatable Squirrel Girl : Squirrel Power
by Ryan North As if settling into life on campus wasn't hard enough, Doreen Green, better known as Squirrel Girl, has to deal with Kraven the Hunter arriving on campus and Galactus heading towards Earth. |
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Dumplin'
by Julie Murphy Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete inthe beauty pageant her mother runs. |
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Batgirl : Batgirl of Burnside
by Cameron Stewart It's Batgirl as you've never seen her before! Big changes are here for Barbara Gordon as she moves across Gotham City to begin a new chapter in her ongoing fight against crime as Batgirl! |
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Etiquette & espionage
by Gail Carriger In an alternate England of 1851, spirited 14-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit and espionage. |
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Sal & Gabi break the universe
by Carlos Alberto Pablo Hernandez In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes. |
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The Parker inheritance
by Varian Johnson Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert. |
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Goldie Vance
by Hope Larsen When in-house detective Charlie comes up against a case he can't crack, he calls upon sixteen-year-old Goldie, who uses her skills, smarts, and connections to solve the case |
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When Dimple met Rishi
by Sandhya Menon When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him. |
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The backstagers : Rebels Without Applause
by James Tynion Transfering to an all-boys school, Jory befriends the Backstagers, the school's lowly stage crew, who are determined to put together the best show the school has ever seen while dealing with the magical underground world located under the school |
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The first rule of punk
by Celia C. Pérez After María Luisa O'Neill-Morales moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago, she violates her school's dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurns the school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded friends. |