Grounded by Megan Morrison has a well written friendship/budding romance. The protagonist is a girl but it’s an action-packed fairytale retelling. I think it’s classified as middle grade, but I enjoyed it as an adult.
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The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. There’s only one romance in it that I can recall, but it’s handled well. The series is fantasy, and some of the books have horror elements. A lot of it is kids winding up in unusual situations partially because of having parents who were not stellar, so caregivers do not always come out in a good light in those books. But it’s largely a fantasy series of many short books with kids in their pre-teens and teens mostly treating each other well, and calling it out or stopping it on the rare occassions when someone doesn’t. It has a boatload of diversity, written in a way that feels authentic, instead of tokenizing. And it’s written by someone who really seems to remember what it’s like to be a child, and I feel like many YA authors don’t.
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My life in pink & green, sweet treats and secret crushes, the boy on cinnamon street, Mackenzie blue and the secret crush, the secret blog of raisin Rodriguez
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Dragonskin Slippers by Jessica Day George. The young prince character is such a gentleman as are the dragons lol.
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Grounded by Megan Morrison has a well written friendship/budding romance. The protagonist is a girl but it’s an action-packed fairytale retelling. I think it’s classified as middle grade, but I enjoyed it as an adult.
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The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. There’s only one romance in it that I can recall, but it’s handled well. The series is fantasy, and some of the books have horror elements. A lot of it is kids winding up in unusual situations partially because of having parents who were not stellar, so caregivers do not always come out in a good light in those books. But it’s largely a fantasy series of many short books with kids in their pre-teens and teens mostly treating each other well, and calling it out or stopping it on the rare occassions when someone doesn’t. It has a boatload of diversity, written in a way that feels authentic, instead of tokenizing. And it’s written by someone who really seems to remember what it’s like to be a child, and I feel like many YA authors don’t.
My life in pink & green, sweet treats and secret crushes, the boy on cinnamon street, Mackenzie blue and the secret crush, the secret blog of raisin Rodriguez
Dragonskin Slippers by Jessica Day George. The young prince character is such a gentleman as are the dragons lol.