Colby's post-high school plans have long been that he and his best friend Beth would tour with her band, then spend a year in Europe, but when she announces that she will start college just after the tour, Colby struggles to understand why she changed her mind and what losing her means for his future.
Seventeen-year-old Sadie Allen has spent the last two years pining for her best friend, Garrett, but when he heads off to literary camp for the summer without her, she decides to kick her unrequited crush for good, with the help of her co-workers, another boy, and her own summer twelve-step program.
When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three fifteen-year-old friends in Tacoma, Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to be even harder than having real jobs would have been.
- He's So Not Worth It, by Kieran Scott
- Pieces of Us, by Margie Gelbwasser
- The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls, by Julie Schumacher
- Acceleration, by Graham McNamee
- Cool Like That: A So For Real Novel, by Nikki Carter
- Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
- Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers, by Brett Runyon
- Twenty Boy Summer, by Sarah Ockler
- Summer Intern, by Carrie Karasyov
- The Complete History of Why I Hate Her, by Jennifer Jacobson
- The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Jenny Han
- Things You Either Hate or Love, by Brigid Lowry
- Exit Strategy, by Ryan Potter
- Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty, by Jody Elizabeth Gehrman
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, by Jeff Kinney
- Orchards, by Holly Thompson [verse novel]
- The Summerboy: A Novel, by Robert Lipsyte
- Breathing, by Cheryl Renee Herbsman
- One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Dreams of Significant Girls, by Cristina Garcia