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Sixteen-year-old Anna falls for Will, a New Yorker visiting her resort island for the summer, but she isn't sure if one summer of love will be worth her heart breaking when he leaves at the end of August.

"It's summer in the city and passions are soaring along with the temperature - for everyone but Mitchell Fisher, who hates all things romance. He relishes his job cutting off the padlocks that couples fasten to the famous "love story" bridge. Only his young daughter, Poppy, knows that behind his prickly veneer, Mitchell still grieves the loss of her mother. Then one hot day, everything changes when Mitchell courageously rescues a woman who falls from...

In small-town Alaska in the 1990s, high school senior Meri's determination to escape for a more exciting place wanes as she struggles with family, grief, friends, and hormones.

Told in two voices, the budding romance between tenth-graders Uly Gates and Sallie Walls is tested when their sisters run against each other in a racially-charged campaign for student-body president.

"Hay muchas cosas que Emma Marina no recuerda de su madre, que murió cuando ella tenía doce años. Pero de lo que sí se acuerda es de las historias que su madre le contaba sobre el gran lago que parecía no tener fin, de agua fría y cristalina y con árboles cubiertos de musgo en las orillas. Ahora solo están Emma y su padre y viven una vida tranquila, aunque bastante predecible... hasta que, inesperadamente, Emma tiene que pasar el verano con...