Genre: Contemporary

LOVEBOAT REUNION By Abigail Hing Wen

Short and Sweet Sophie and Xavier don’t have the best past, everything that happened on Loveboat was not the ideal situation, but now that the summer is over and they’re leaving Taipei, they decide to move on as friends. Sophie is now at Dartmouth and is focusing on herself and trying to impress her professor […]

THE STORYTELLER By Kathryn Williams

Short and Sweet Review After helping her mom clean out her great aunts home, Jess finds a trunk full of old diaries unfortunately they’re in Russian. Jess enlists the help of a college student Evan, who agrees to help Jess translate the diaries for a fee. After reading a few of the diaries Evan suspects […]

ONE TRUE LOVES By Elise Bryant

Short and Sweet Review Lenore is an artist she loves to create, but now that high school graduation is here she’s unsure about college. Lenore’s parents realize that Lenore is unsure and give her a deadline to figure out what she’s going to do in her future which puts a lot of pressure on Lenore. […]

THE UPSIDE OF UNREQUITED By Becky Albertalli

Short and Sweet Review Molly has had a lot of crushes in her life but she’s never been rejected because she hasn’t pursued any of her crushes. Molly and her twin sister Cassie are super close until Cassie gets a girlfriend. Cassie and her girlfriend Mina try to get Molly and Mina’s friend Will to […]

LEAH ON THE OFFBEAT By Becky Albertalli

Short and Sweet Review It’s senior year and in the short amount of time before graduation Leah is trying to figure things out. She’s bi but the only person who knows is her mom, she’s an amazing artist but she’s not comfortable showing her drawings, and her solid friend group seems to be fracturing. Alrighty […]

THIS IS WHY WE LIE By Gabriella Lepore

Short and Sweet Review When Jenna and Adam find Colleen O’Dell’s body floating lifeless in the shore, their small town is shocked, but things get worse when they learn this wasn’t an accident. When Jenna’s friend Holly becomes a suspect Jenna starts to look into things and knows she needs Adams help to piece everything […]

WE CAN BE HEROES By Kyrie McCauley

Short and Sweet Bell is the home of Bell Firearms and has been for the past two hundred years. Five months ago the heir to Bell Firearms went to school with some firearms and killed his ex-girlfriend Cassandra Queen and himself. Beck and Vivian never could stand each other but they did it for Cassie. […]

TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET By Karen M. McManus

Short and Sweet Review Ellery and her twin brother Ezra have always heard about the town of Echo Ridge, because that’s the town their aunt went missing in. Now Ellery, is moving to a town she’s heard all about, to live with a grandmother she barely knows. Five years ago, the homecoming queen was killed, […]

ACT COOL By Tobly McSmith

Short and Sweet Review *Trigger Warning: Dead naming, Misgendering, Suicidal thoughts August is a transgender teenager who has just run away from his conservative parents home to stay in New York City with his more accepting aunt. August was accepted into the School of Performing arts and the only way he can stay is to […]