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CRRL Picks: Complicated Love

Breakups, first loves, second loves, and love triangles fill the pages of these young adult books.

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  • Stranded on an island with both the vastly different Fitz and Sal, Vida Hazzard is torn between the life she's always planned for, and a future she's never dared to want. As they desperately plot a course for home, Vida will discover just which boy…
    eBook, 2020[New York, New York] : HarperTeen, 2020. — FICTION God
  • A high school stage manager has to face his complicated feelings about love when he catches himself falling for the same guy as his sister.
    Book, 2024New York : Dial Books, 2024. — FICTION Kho
  • Teenage Flora, still reeling from the loss of her mom, leaves England for sunny Miami, where her constant self-doubt about life, including romance, leads her straight into a love triangle.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023New York : Simon and Schuster Audio, 2023. — FICTION Nam
  • When Jamie dumps Quinn a month before their senior year, Quinn is suddenly girlfriend-less and best friend-less. Enter a new crush: Ruby Ocampo, the gorgeous and rich lead singer of the popular band Sweets, who's just broken up with her on-again,…
    Book, 2020New York : Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2020] — FICTION Hea
  • Zahra Khan is basically Bangladeshi royalty, but being a princess doesn’t pay the bills in Paterson, New Jersey. While Zahra’s plans for financial security this summer involve working long hours at Chai Ho and saving up for college writing courses,…
    Book, 2023New York : Salaam Reads, [2023] — FICTION Tas
  • Seventeen-year-old overachiever Sam attemtps to encourage a love connection between her athletic ex-boyfriend Christian and her academic rival Ros while trying not to fall for Ros herself.
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022. — FICTION Roa
  • Best friends Eve and Andrew go to their first eight grade dance together, and suddenly everybody assumes they are dating, so they each try and arrange a break-up--except they are both beginning to feel a different kind of attraction.
    Book, 2024New York : Aladdin, 2024. — FICTION Mil
  • Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham has always been too occupied with her love of math and frequent battles with anxiety to want to date. Besides, she's always found the idea of kissing to be kind of weird. But by senior year, thanks to therapy and her…
    Book, 2020New York : Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS, 2020. — FICTION Par
  • Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that range from…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023New York : Tundra Books, 2023. — FICTION Kha
  • Three Sides of a Heart

    Stories About Love Triangles

    These top YA authors tackle the much-debated trope of the love triangle, and the result is sixteen fresh, diverse, and romantic stories you don't want to miss.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : HarperTeen, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. — FICTION Thr