Time for Departure! Travel books for teens

Enjoy this list of teen books that follow the theme for our SweetBean Reading Challenge in July!

Updated June 14, 2024
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As far as you'll take me
Stamper, Phil
Paper Book
_______________'A beautiful tribute to every queer kid who's ever had to leave their home in order to find one' - Leah Johnson, bestselling author of 'You Should See Me in a Crown'_______________From the author of The Gravity of Us comes a heartfelt coming-of...
How it all blew up
Ahmadi, Arvin
Paper Book
The power of finding yourself, finding your people and living your truth
Love & gelato
Welch, Jenna Evans
Paper Book
People go to Italy for love & gelato ... but sometimes they discover much more.The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. "Howard is the best man I've ever known," her mother says, "he'll keep you safe."...
Love from A to Z
Ali, S. K.
Ebook
A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick "The bighearted, wildly charming, painfully real love story I've been waiting for." --Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda From William C. Morris Award...
Loveboat, Taipei
Wen, Abigail Hing
Paper Book
Now a major movie, Love in Taipei, on Paramount+   "Exciting and authentic." Sabaa Tahir, New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes "Surprising, original and intelligent. An intense rush of rebellion and romance."...
The one memory of Flora Banks
Barr, Emily
Paper Book
I look at my hands. One of them says 'FLORA be brave'.I am Flora. Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day- the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old she is. Then she kisses a boy - her first kiss -...
Patron saints of nothing
Ribay, Randy
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2020 "A heartbreaking and original novel." - Guardian A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. ...
Tokyo ever after
Jean, Emiko
Paper Book
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club YA Pick!Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean is a hilarious and heartfelt novel perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Princess Diaries.Izumi Tanaka has lived an uneventful seventeen years in her small town, keenly aware of all the ways in which her...
XOXO
Oh, Axie
Ebook
Jenny's never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk. A modern forbidden romance wrapped in the glamorous and exclusive world...

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