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Omaha Picks: Love Is All You Need

Ahh first love. It can be sweet and gentle, intense and passionate, completely crazy and anything in between. Try one of these teen reads about falling in love.

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  • Color Outside the Lines

    Stories About Love

    An anthology of YA stories that explores the complexity and beauty of interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships. They're about how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter. They're about handling…
    BookNew York, NY : Soho Teen, [2019] — YAFICTION Color
  • Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
    BookNew York : Salaam Reads, [2019] — YAFICTION Ali
  • A whip smart teen romance debut inspired by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash from a bright new voice. Annie Mathers is America's sweetheart and heir to a country music legacy full of all the things her Gran warned her about. Superstar Clay…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2019. — YAFICTION Hahn
  • Paisley is really looking forward to college. She is ready to take charge of her destiny and embrace some new experiences! Finding a hot guy to make out with at her first ever college party seems like a great start...until her best friend…
    BookNew York : Swoon Reads, 2019. — YAFICTION Hall
  • A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social pariahs, broken and unable to console one another. Brooke's only…
    BookToronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press , [2019] — YAFICTION Johnson
  • Adam Moynihan's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then, his oldest brother died. Now, his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his…
    BookToronto, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2020] — YAFICTION Johnson
  • A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and a story in verse celebrating love.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. — YAFICTION Levithan
  • For Sophie, small-town life has never felt small. With her four best friends, she can weather any storm. But when Sophie's beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it's her job to get them…
    BookNew York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2019. — YAFICTION Mills
  • It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he…
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] — YAFICTION Nazemian
  • Mia and Jake have known each other their whole lives. They've endured summer vacations, Sunday brunches, even dentist visits together. Their mothers, who are best friends, are convinced that Mia and Jake would be the perfect couple, even…
    BookNew York, Swoon Reads, 2019. — YAFICTION Nguyen
  • Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2019] — YAFICTION Smith
  • Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her…
    BookNew York : Crown, [2019] — YAFICTION Stone
  • Fresh out of high school, Babe Vogel should be thrilled to have the whole summer at her fingertips. She loves living in her lighthouse home in the sleepy Maine beach town of Oar's Rest and being a barista at the Busy Bean, but she's…
    BookNew York : Swoon Reads, [2019] — YAFICTION Vale
  • Sophie Evans works for the local florist and party planner in her small southern town, so she attends all of the big "events," all the time sketching and dreaming of applying to design school; but this year there is a fly-in-the-ointment…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2019. — YAFICTION West