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February may have Valentine's Day, but August is actually Romance Awareness Month. Full of all the best tropes—meet cutes, hate-to-love, second chances, and so many more—here are 32 books to share with teens who can’t resist a good HEA.

Part of We Are Kid Lit Collective's 2022 Summer Reading selections, this YA booklist features a range of authors, formats, and subjects. 

Contemporary settings at a prep school and debate tournament update Jane Austen’s work but also show the perennial nature of Pride and Prejudice.

These 15 titles represent some of the most practical, detailed, clear, critical, and diverse perspectives on picking, achieving, and living the dream that is higher education today.

The Great Gatsby has gone through numerous retellings in various media, from movies to graphic novels. From a graphic novel adaptation to a contemporary thriller, here are nine works to read alongside the classic. 

These 15 books restore the urgency and excitement of history while highlighting the marginalized voices that have so often been written out of established curricula.

Suggestions include culling To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and works by Shakespeare, as well as adding New Kid and Firekeeper's Daughter, among other titles. 

Use these reviews of manga that are bound to be popular in the coming months for a ready-made display or to help you decide whether they should be purchased for your teen collections.

Climate justice is at the forefront of youth activism. The following 19 titles illustrate what is happening on the individual and collective scale—highlighting not only the youths’ struggles but also what they are fighting for.