Thank you so much for joining YABC as we team up with HarperCollins to welcome the summer season with a fantastic giveaway!
Check out the books being offered and enter this amazing giveaway down below.
Royal Summer
Title: Royal Summer
Author: Kass Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: May 12, 2026
The perfect summer romance has arrived! Jenny Han meets The Royal We in this YA romcom about an American girl who finds herself falling for the Prince of England during a whirlwind summer in Scotland. Perfect for fans of Harry and Megan, Will and Kate, and love that breaks all the rules.
Aspiring writer Hannah has scored the opportunity of a lifetime—escaping her sleepy Midwestern town for the summer to intern in Scotland for her favorite author. But her plan to spend the next few months being the best assistant ever is derailed when her idol suddenly decides to abscond to Japan with her boyfriend.
So it almost seems too good to be true when a mysterious stranger—a tall, obnoxiously cute stranger—she meets at the pub one night gets her job at the royal family’s castle in Inveresk. It’s only when she shows up to her first day of work that she realizes the stranger is Finnian, the prince of England.
Finn is confined at Inveresk as punishment for his party boy antics, and clearly just wants Hannah around for his own amusement. But the more she gets to know him, the more she wonders if this is just a fling or if she’s found herself in a star-crossed summer romance that she never could have imagined…
What to expect:
- Royal Romance: American Hannah finds love where she least expects—in Scotland with the prince of England.
- Summer Abroad: Scotland isn’t the worst place to be stuck for the summer, especially when there’s a cute Prince next door.
- Forced Proximity: Prince Finn conveniently finds Hannah a job—at the castle where he’s spending his summer.
- Found Family: While falling in love with Finn, Hannah bonds with her coworkers and new Scottish friends.
Sparks Fly
Title: Sparks Fly
Author: Hazel Henry
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: May 12, 2026
Three girls, one summer—and the perfect beach read for fans of Gilmore Girls, Jenny Han, and Elin Hilderbrand!
Georgia is bummed to be spending the summer away from her boyfriend, until a local boy catches her eye… Daisy kissed her best friend Owen right before she left for the lake. Does that mean she shouldn’t be hanging out with Mateo, the hot older guy who drives her around? Eden is spending her summer in the woods doing a survival course, which was bad enough before she found out that her ex-boyfriend would be there.
- Sizzling summer romance: On a sun-drenched dock or in a car with the windows down, anything can happen.
- Cozy sisterly love: By the last chapter, you’ll feel like a fourth Holliday girl. After all, boys come and go, but sisters are forever.
- Small town setting: Spend the summer at Laurel Lake, where everybody knows each other and you can bike from one end to the other in an afternoon.
- More to come: Follow the Holliday girls into the Christmas season with the bright wintery romance SANTA MAYBE!
Calypso’s Odyssey
Title: Calypso’s Odyssey
Author: Anna Ellison
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: May 26
Some loves are meant to stay…some are meant to set you free.
The Summer I Turned Pretty meets Circe in this windswept, emotional retelling of The Odyssey. A stunning story of first love, ancient echoes, and the power of rewriting your own fate.
Callie Quinn has never left Catalina Island. Her world is a crumbling cliffside inn, a father who’s more prison guard than parent, and a curse she believes she’s doomed to repeat: every summer brings a boy, a spark—and then a goodbye. Until one summer everything changes.
A storm. A shipwreck. A boy washed ashore.
Odie is secretive, wounded, and desperate to disappear. Callie offers him shelter, a place to heal, and slowly, something more. But Odie is no ordinary castaway. He carries secrets that could destroy them both. On Catalina, Callie shows him another way to live. A life of freedom and belonging. An everlasting life where he could be anyone—even himself.
But when Odie’s world crashes back into their paradise, both Odysseus and Calypso must make impossible choices: one between legacy and love. The other, between holding on and setting herself free.
Inspired by the tale of Odysseus and Calypso from Homer’s The Odyssey, this fresh retelling gives star-crossed lovers a chance to defy fate. Full of longing, first love, and impossible choices, it’s a story where, at last, they find their happily ever after.
A star-crossed, slow-burn summer romance. A contemporary reimagining with mythological roots. A girl who learns that sometimes, the most epic love story is the one you write for yourself.
Perfect for fans of:
- Forbidden Love
- MMC with a mysterious past
- “Just for the summer” relationships
- Mythology retellings
- 1-Chili Pepper Romance
The Vacation Shift
Title: The Vacation Shift
Author: Lily Chu
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Release Date: June 23, 2026
Gilmore Girls meets a reverse Parent Trap in this swoony and hilarious YA rom-com from popular adult romance author Lily Chu, following a teen who, while on a group tour to Japan, teams up with a fellow traveler to keep their parents from falling in love with each other.
Ivy Yu is cursed. Her parents separated six months ago, and she’s fallen into a fog. To help, her mother books an impulsive trip to Japan (cool) on a bus tour (very uncool). Ivy should be grateful, but this summer is her last chance to get her situationship, Connor, to fall in love with her.
When they arrive in Tokyo, it’s even worse than she imagined. Ivy and her Mom are the youngest of a group of seniors. Make that two of the youngest: there’s brooding Matteo, with his single dad, Keith.
Then Ivy discovers her mother and Keith are getting close, and her crush back home is hooking up with someone else. Desperate for some semblance of control and a distraction from the heaviness she can’t seem to shake off, she makes a deal with Matteo to keep their parents apart. Luckily, he agrees—and their devious plans begin.
Dodging nosy old ladies on the bus ride through Japan, their strange partnership begins to blossom into something unexpected and exciting—but can their romantic spark survive the journey?
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These all sound amazing!
These will make perfect summer reading!
All these books sound like cute summer reads!
Romance is one of the top 2 genres checked out in our high school library! Always looking for more titles to add.
Great assortment of books 🙂