Grab a Book- Esperanza Burbano ’26

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It’s the perfect time to pick up a quick book to read. I have created a list of some amazing reads for this month! 

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter-

Better Than the Movies is a light hearted rom-com about a girl named Liz Baxbaum. Liz is a girl with dreams of meeting her true love. Once she finds out that her childhood crush has moved back from Texas, she makes up a plan to have him fall in love with her. But in order for this plan to work, she needs to invite her rude and annoying neighbor Wes to help her.

The Do Over by Lynn Painter-

The Do Over is about a girl, Emilie, who has gotten stuck in a time loop nightmare where she has to re-watch her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. To top it all off, she can’t seem to get away from Nick, a guy she continually runs into all the time.

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han-

To all the Boys I’ve loved before follows a girl named Lara Jean who writes a secret love letter to all her past crushes, but she never had the intention of sending them out. But mysteriously, one day all of the letters were sent out to each of her five crushes. Now she has to deal with all the stress and drama that the letters have caused.

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han-The Summer I Turned Pretty follows a girl named Belly. Belly Conklin and her family spend every summer at her mother’s best friend’s family home at Cousin beach. Belly has always struggled with being the youngest and only girl among the four of the kids who live in that house during the summer, but Belly feels that this summer is going to be different.When Belly arrives at the Fisher’s house, she notices that she is getting more attention than before; she knows this was going to be the summer she would never forget.