Eighteen-year-old Cass Issac doesn't believe in sticking around. She's had to move a lot due to her dads' house-flipping business always a different school, always a new friend group. She's learned there's no need for drawn-out-goodbyes with people…
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Rangatahi Love Stories - Papanui YA Display
A selection of YA romances to spring into in the romance genre. Our current display is titled with the whakataukī "Te kuku o te manawa"
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- When Evelyn Dasher crossed paths with Luc, she was thrown headfirst into the world of the Lux. There's a gap in Evie's memory. She needs to find out the truth about who she is and who she was, but every answer she finds only brings up more…
- Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then a fun senior year with their friends. But then Nate does what everyone else in Hannah's life seems to do he leaves her, claiming they have nothing in…
- A teenage couple plan and execute their escape from Moory, a future settlement ruled by the evil conjuror using cruelty, superstition and a class system based on eye colour.
- Perpetual daydreamer and hopeless romantic Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his…
- After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother…
- Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other. Autumn has her boyfriend Jamie, and her close-knit group of friends. And Finn has become that boy at school, the one…
- Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she…
- Leah Zhang has spent her whole life in LA it's all she's ever known. But after accidentally wishing her cousin ill health and a very depressing marriage at her wedding, her parents stage an intervention. She's forgotten most of her Mandarin, has…
- Lower your gaze. The light is not for you. Ex-soldier Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. Possessing just his name and sword, he comes across the score of a lifetime a chest of coins for hunting down the girl who wields…
- Adam Silvera reminds us that there's no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. On September 5, a little after midnight,…
- Zander Rune was the darling of Hollywood until he fell from glory and was labelled a problematic bad boy. His public image needs fixing fast or he'll lose the role of a lifetime, and all his dreams with it. Charlie Hart is a regular teenage girl who…
- Cass has a rule about dating summer girls--just say no. Every year, her idyllic beach town is flooded with summer girls, the obnoxious daughters of the rich, who stay in their families' summer homes, sail their yachts, and generally make things…
- Seventeen-year-old Anna is not having a good summer. She's pretty sure she's flunked her exams and to make matters worse, her boyfriend, Max, has unceremoniously dumped her. So when her aunt invites her to stay at her bookshop by the sea for the…
- Could you brave the wilderness with your highly suspicious and unfairly cute ex-best friend? Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect: he's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough) and comes out on top in all his classes except the ones he…
- Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time,…
- Cam is planning to fly under the radar at his new school, which should be easy as a human among kids with super-cool paranormal powers. But after a very public psychic vision, he's suddenly the centre of attention. With a mystery to solve to prevent…
- When her parents announce their impending divorce, Natalie can't understand why no one is fighting, or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, hook up, leaving her feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward. She'd always…
- Macy Descanso is a writer. Who cares if her bestselling-author mother pulled some strings to get her into a prestigious writing retreat? Macy belongs here. Even when the coordinators unexpectedly announce that this year's theme is romance, Macy a…
- Amalia's life runs like clockwork: school, family book club, hanging out with her best (and only) friend Mae. It's comfortable in its predictability. So when Mae announces she's ready to start dating - against the wishes of her strict parents…
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