Eight YA reads about the summer that changed everything

Sona Charaipotra is a New York City-based writer and editor with more than a decade’s worth of experience in print and online media. At the BN Teen blog she tagged eight YA reads about summers that shake things up, including:

Everywhere You Want to Be, by Christina June

Summer dance camp in New York City—you know I’m all about that! Good girl Matilda Castillo is ready to give up everything for her shot at dancing again, even Georgetown. But her mother insists: at the end of the summer, she will go off to college. Tilly, though, has other plans—like parlaying her summer dance experience into a full-time career. Will she live up to her mother’s great expectations, or will she follow her own dreams down a more tenuous path?

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--Marshal Zeringue