Romantic Reads for Middle Schoolers

"Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James must navigate heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, the betrayal of a former best friend, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl"-- Provided by publisher.

"Romance blooms between a Nebraskan cowboy and California girl, thrust together on the Oregon Trail"-- Provided by publisher.

Told in alternating voices, ex-best friends Meghna and Rani team up to expose their cheating boyfriend at a science competition and fall for each other in the process.

High school freshmen, Pacy and Cecil, share a look of love at first sight that sparks a series of mistakes and awkward interactions that become part of their love story.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, Andi is grappling with grief following the death of her mother. Zora is exhausted by trying to please her success-oriented parents. Both feel very much alone. Until a summer music camp brings them together. The only two Black girls at camp in a sea of white children, Andi and Zora slowly begin to connect and reveal their deepest fears and dreams. While Andi is a natural on trumpet, Zora doesn't know if she wants to be a...

To escape her father's overprotectiveness, twenty-year-old Kenzie Caine spends the summer working at a horse farm rehabilitating Tennessee Walking horses, where a good deed results in a violent end to the summer and the revelation of her attractive assistant's secrets.

Thirteen-year-old Alice's efforts to reunite her parents uncovers a generational family curse where the women never fall in love, but her and fellow enchanter Ronan's attempt to break the jinx accidentally puts their town at risk.

Seventeen year-old Britta Flannery is the outcast daughter of a bounty hunter who must use her powers to track her father's killer in a world of warring kingdoms and dangerous magic. Britta Flannery spends her days tracking criminals alongside her father, the legendary bounty hunter for the King of Malam-- until her father is murdered. Now outcast and with no rights to her father's land or inheritance, she seeks refuge in the Ever Woods. When Britta...

"Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn't around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home. But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina's uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art,...