Genre: Contemporary

FAITH: TAKING FLIGHT By Julie Murphy

Short and Sweet Faith is your typical teenager, she usually spends her time hanging out with her two friends Ches and Matt, volunteering at the animal shelter, or obsessing over her favorite show The Grove. Over the summer Faith discovered she has the ability to fly and it might just come in handy especially when […]

YOU SAY IT FIRST By Katie Cotugno

Short and Sweet Meg basically has everything planned out, she’s going to go to Cornell in the fall with her best friend Emily, she has a supportive boyfriend, and she even works at a voter registration call center. Colby lives in Ohio, and he’s still dealing with the death of his father. Colby is working […]

THE PAPER GIRL OF PARIS By Jordyn Taylor

Short and Sweet Alice is spending her summer in Paris, and its not to for vacation, when her grandmother passed away she left Alice an abandoned apartment that no one knew about. Alice wants to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandma never mentioned it. Adalyn doesn’t recognize Paris anymore, its […]

STAY GOLD By Tolby McSmith

Short and Sweet Its Pony’s senior year at a new high school and his goal is to fly under the radar. Pony is transgender and he already had to deal with the fall out at his old school and he just wants to avoid it this time around. Georgia is a cheerleader but she wants […]

PARACHUTES By Kelly Yang

Short and Sweet Parachutes are what teenagers are called when they come to the United States to go to school while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire never thought she’d be one but her parents decide to send her to a school in California, now she has a host family and a lot of […]

STARRY EYES By Jenn Bennett

Short and Sweet Review When Zorie accepts an invite for a clamping trip she never thought that her best friend turned enemy Lennon would also be going along. But when the camping trip goes from bad to awful, Zorie and Lennon find themselves alone in woods. Now these two have to hash out their issues […]

JUST A BOY AND A GIRL IN A LITTLE CANOE By Sarah Mlynowski

Short and Sweet Sam’s boyfriend is taking a backpacking trip around Europe, and she’s going to be a camp counselor at Camp Blue Springs. Sam thinks her summer is going to be a disaster until she meets Gavin the sailing instructor. This is Sam’s first time being a counselor and it started it off rocky […]

A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER By Holly Jackson

Short and Sweet Five years ago in the town of Fairview, Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh. The tragedy still haunts the town. Pippa decides that the facts of the case don’t make sense and she wants to reexamine it for her senior capstone project. The more Pip learns the more someone […]

CLAP WHEN YOU LAND By Elizabeth Acevedo

Short and Sweet Review Camino and Yahaira live very different lives, Camino is in the Dominican Republic and Yahaira is in New York City, but both of their lives are changed when their father dies on a plane crash. Now both girls have to navigate life without their dad and learn about the secrets he […]