Torn between two destinies? Claire is having the perfect sixteenth birthday. Her pool party is a big success, and gorgeous Matthew keeps chatting and flirting with her as if she’s the only girl there. But that night, she discovers something that takes away all sense of normalcy: she’s a werewolf. As Claire is initiated into [...]

Tags: coming of age, mothers and daughters, romance, secrets, supernatural, trailer, werewolves
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16-year-old Miranda Merchant is great at science…and not so great with boys. After major drama with her boyfriend and (now ex) best friend, she’s happy to spend the summer on small, mysterious Selkie Island, helping her mother sort out her late grandmother’s estate. There, Miranda finds new friends and an island with a mysterious, mystical [...]

Tags: merfolk, mothers and daughters, mythical creatures, romance, secrets, social classes, summer
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A teenager. A pregnancy. A familiar story. NOT When sixteen-year-old Sydney Biggs’s pregnancy test shows the tell tale plus sign, she confides in only her best friend Natalia, and Natalia promptly “borrows” her mother’s car so Sydney can confront the baby’s father. But after the car is reported stolen and police bring the girls home, [...]

Tags: camp, family problems, friendship, mothers and daughters, romance, secrets, sex, summer, teenage pregnancy, wilderness
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Everyone has a secret. But Lucy’s is bigger and dirtier than most. It’s one she’s been hiding for years—that her mom’s out-of-control hoarding has turned their lives into a world of garbage and shame. She’s managed to keep her home life hidden from her best friend and her crush, knowing they’d be disgusted by the [...]

Tags: death, high schools, hoarding, mental illness, mothers and daughters, secrets, self-reliance
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Scarlett Hughes is overly involved in the lives of everyone around her, and exceptionally interested in the habits of her neighbors. But Scarlett is thrust solidly into her own life when her sister, Juliet, returns home from school—pregnant and surprisingly married to a sweet, handsome man whom she seems to have no interest in, but [...]

Tags: family life, high schools, interpersonal relations, mothers and daughters, pregnancy, romance, sisters
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