friendship

Going to the summer festival together will give Tadano and Komi the chance at a classic date, a traditional rite of passage for romantic couples. Then, bad luck and even worse weather strike to turn their date sour.

Calculus-obsessed STEM nerd Marlowe was as surprised as anyone when Josh, a hot, popular boy from school asked her out. She was equally surprised when a few months later, she was unceremoniously dumped by him for being emotionally unavailable. Determined to win him back, she asks the help of Ashton Hayes, a boy she's paired with for an English assignment, who wears eyeliner and black clothes, and is in a band. In exchange for using her algorithm skills to help his band gain exposure, she asks him to use his songwriting prowess to help her express her love to Josh. Though things track in right direction for the new friends, Marlowe is surprised yet again, when she realizes she's falling for Ashton, and she doesn't have to try to be something she's not to win him over.

Summer with all its heat approaches, making the revived astronomy club's observatory stupidly hot, but that won't stop Ganta Nakami and his fellow insomniac Isaki Magari from conducting their first-ever meteor shower watch party. Also, Nakami and Magari agree they should go to the city's fireworks festival--together.

Wynd and his companions travel across Esseriel as the tension between humans and fairies escalates. The group is being chased by the vampyre General Zedra and by General Eks. But an unlikely group is also racing to save the children before their enemies can get to them. Just as Wynd learns startling information about his identity, a deadly confrontation ensues that causes great harm to the children.

Camille, seventeen, gives up her spot at a prestigious theater camp to drive from Texas to New Mexico to get an abortion, accompanied by her friends Annabelle and Bea.

Callie, a not-quite-human high school student, can see and speak to creatures invisible to others. Her father, a demon, runs a magical antique shop. On Callie's seventeenth birthday, her father disappears and she must enter the magical realm to find him. She is joined by a boy named Declan--who also can see invisible creatures--and a ghostly Radish. The unlikely heroes encounter medieval villages, enchanted forests, and talking trees in their quest to find Callie's father.

"Gwendolyn, the youngest of the king's three daughters, is living proof that princesses don't always have it all. She isn't like a typical fairy-tale princess, or other princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Gwendolyn, with her big heart and love of baking, isn't particularly attractive... When her father proposes marriage for her and her sisters to make an alliance with the Plaid Kingdom, it breaks Gwendolyn's heart to hear that Prince Frederick thinks she's 'really ugly.' Overwhelmed and ashamed, she runs away into the forest and encounters the twisted world of the Cursed Princess Club, where her life will never be the same. "--.

"Finn has always loved Autumn. She is a constant in his life, except it's in the role of friend, not girlfriend. Finn wants her to see him as more, wants to prove HE should be the man by her side. Even if that means heartache for the people they are each dating. It would be worth the pain to be with right person. Finn knows he and Autumn are fated to be together. But sometimes fate can be cruel to those in love"--Provided by publisher.

The gay boys Aoki and Ida have started dating, but with college entrance exams getting brutal, their hopes of getting into the same college together are growing dim, and their relationship is tested. Meanwhile, Hashimoto and Akkun have gone on different life roads, but they still have each other's backs when graduation troubles come up.

As the end of summer vacation approaches, Aoki and Ida go to a fireworks show, and Ida tells Aoki that he wants to be more public about their relationship. Aoki fails a test and starts to worry that he won't have good enough grades to go to the same college as Ida. Then, their class prepares for their final high school cultural festival, and they decide to put on a performance of Cinderella. Then, Ida meets Aoki's parents at the festival, but when Aoki overhears Ida's mom talking about him, he worries that she doesn't want them to be together.