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You know those summer reading lists they give you at the end of the school year? Kafka and Orwell and so on? Well, throw it out. Because here’s the real summer must-read list for teens!

• Best Kissing: Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott
• Best Summer Lovin’: Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
• Best Page Turner: Cracked up to Be by Courtney Summers
• Best YA with Grace & Beauty of The Lovely Bones: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• Best Overall Romance: Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen
• Best Romantic Comedy: Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
• Best Everything Changes YA: One Lonely Degree by C.K. Kelly Martin
• Best Escape: The Season by Sara MacLean
• Best Fantastically Tragic Protagonist: The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
• Best Life Lesson: North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
• Best “Boy” Book The Girls Will Like Too: Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
• Best Post-Apocalyptic Thriller That Will Make You Think the Noises Your Cats Make in the Night Come from Zombies: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
• Best Better-Than-Twilight Book: Evermore by Alyson Noel

Now go to the library, the book store, your best friend and read!!!

The list was compiled this list with the help of four writing friends: Trish Doller, Suzanne Young, Courtney Summers and Mandy Morgan. And no, Courtney didn’t pick her own book for the list. I picked it! The list includes books published in 2008 and 2009.

Oh, the kissing. Yes, the kissing. My God, the kissing.

“Perfect You” by Elizabeth Scott is the perfect kissing book. If you want a hefty dose of YA butterflies, buy this book. You’ll fall in love with the guy, with the girl, and with the endless kisses they share. OK, “Perfect You” is about much more than kissing. Because as wonderful as kissing is, smooches alone cannot sustain a storyline. Characters and conflict do and “Perfect You” has plenty of that because the main character Kate is faced with quadruple teen dilemmas – best friend has ditched her, Dad is making her crazy with his crazy new job, parents have mucho money trouble, and, oh yeah, the boy she has a mega crush on likes her too but she can’t accept that he does so they just kiss instead.

“Perfect You” doesn’t take the easy road and just ride along on the lip-locked high. Kate has to face up to everything she lost, everything she is losing and everything she is preventing herself from having. What she winds up with will be worth it.

This book is why I love YA.