Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with These Terrific YA Titles!

Finding love in unlikely places is a common theme in these two swoonworthy titles! Whether it's a summer away or right at home, love finds a way!

Bite Me, Royce Taslim by LAUREN HO. After a car incident dashes her hopes for a track scholarship, Agnes is hard-pressed for a solution to paying for college. That is, until she discovers an international stand-up comedy contest for teens, where she'll be up against none other than her mortal enemy: privleged, popular, pretty boy Royce. As the competition heats up, so do things between these two rivals, which begs the question, who will get the last laugh?

Loveboat Forever by ABIGAIL HING WEN. Seventeen-year-old music prodigy Pearl Wong had the summer of her dreams planned —  until a fall from grace leaves her in need of new plans… and a new image. After setting her sights on the same program her sister attended and flourished at, Chien Tan, she learns that it's actually Loveboat — the extravagant world where prodigies party till dawn — and that there’s more awaiting Pearl there than she could have ever imagined.

What a Desi Girl Wants by SABINA KHAN. When Mehar reluctantly returns to India for her estranged father's wedding, the last thing she expects is to enjoy herself. Thanks to a friendship with her grandmother's assistant, Sufiya, she finds not only happiness but that her father's new bride is using him for his money. But how can Mehar tell the truth when it would risk her friendship with Sufiya, especially when it's becoming something more?

I'll Be Waiting for You by MARIKO TURK. Natalie and Imogen are inseparable, and wildly different, but one thing ties them together: their love of the supernatural. But when the unexpected loss of Imogen leaves Natalie reeling, she throws herself into her paranormal hobby for her senior project. As she carries her grief, she realizes there may be more to these ghosts than she thought.

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