11 YA Books With Happy Endings to Read on the Beach This Summer


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2014-06-06 10:30:42 UTC


Recent young adult blockbusters have been a tad depressing, to say the least.


If you're still railing against the end of the Divergent trilogy and wiping the mascara from your face after re-reading The Fault in Our Stars, you might be in the mood for a happier YA beach read this summer.



These books have their own forms of darkness, but the final chapters should leave you smiling, not sniffling.



  1. 1.%20aristotle%20and%20dante%20discover%20the%20secrets%20of%20the%20universe

  2. 2.%20an%20abundance%20of%20katherines

  3. 3.%20to%20be%20perfectly%20honest-%20a%20novel%20based%20on%20an%20untrue%20story

  4. 4.%20grasshopper%20jungle%20

  5. 5.%20beauty%20queens

  6. 6.%20boy%20meets%20boy

  7. 7.%20no%20one%20else%20can%20have%20you

  8. 8.%20fangirl

  9. 9.%20lola%20and%20the%20boy%20next%20door

  10. 10-panic-by-lauren-oliver

  11. 11-where-she-went-by-gayle-foreman


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Molly Horan

Molly Horan was an editorial intern at Mashable. She's worked as an editorial fellow at Buzzfeed.com and an editorial intern at Dosomething.org and Crushable.com. Her web writing has also been published on Flavorwire.com, Sparknotes.com, and Nerve.co...More




Topics: books, Lifestyle, reading, summer, Travel & Leisure, YA, young adult

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