three YA Books About Cousins

One TV present I’ve loved watching lately (and a terrific one for YA followers) is Derry Women. It’s about 5 teenagers rising up in Northern Eire within the 1990s, and the group is comprised of two units of cousins. It received me interested by how cousin relationships could be fairly distinctive—you’re not siblings, however you’re nonetheless household, and that comes with its personal hangups and joys. I started brainstorming YA books about cousins, and got here up with three must-read books!

Now Now, Not Ever by Lily Anderson

Ellie’s summer season choices are usually not the best—stick round and get conscripted in her step-mom’s manufacturing of The Significance of Being Earnest, mock trial camp at UCLA, or head to her mother’s air base in Colorado. What she actually desires to do is go to the summer season camp for nerds to review Octavia Butler, her hero. So she comes up with a reasonably intelligent and devious plan to avoid her mother and father, reinvents herself as Ever, and heads out…solely to have her rigorously laid plans thwarted by her cousin Isaiah. In an effort to sustain the ruse, they must make a fast deal to cowl for one another and pose as twins—however when household drama catches as much as them, it’ll take all of Ever’s scheming to maintain them out of bother.

Dig by A.S. King

This highly effective e book is that this 12 months’s Michael L. Printz medal winner, and it’s about 5 estranged cousins who’re all affected by the consequences of their grandparents’ decisions. Gottfried and Marla Hemmings are potato farmers turned actual property builders who’ve determined to carry on to their wealth reasonably than share with their grownup kids and teenage grandchildren, and the result’s poverty and wish, till the kids discover their manner again to one another and determine to confront their poisonous roots.

Wild Magnificence by Anna-Marie McLemore

The Nomeolvides ladies have all the time tended the gardens of La Pradera, enchanting guests with their gardening magic. However what nobody else is aware of is that they’re cursed. In the event that they fall in love, the article of their affections disappears. Now the 5 cousins are in an particularly tight bind, as a result of they’ve all fallen in love with the identical woman. And when she disappears and a mysterious boy seems within the gardens, Estrella should unravel the thriller so as to clear up this household curse for her cousins and aunts as soon as and for all.

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