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Lia and Beckett’s Abracadabra - Amy Noelle Parks

Seventeen-year-old Lia Sawyer is thrilled to get a mysterious invitation from her grandmother to compete in a stage magic contest––even though her parents object. But she’s going to be judged by a bunch of old-school magicians who think that because she’s a girl, her only magical talents lie in wearing sparkly dresses, providing distractions, and getting sawed, crushed, or stretched. And Lia can’t ask her grandmother for help because she’s disappeared, leaving behind only her best magic tricks, a few obscure clues, and an order to stay away from Blackwell boys, the latest generation of a rival magic family. Lia totally plans to follow her grandmother’s rule––until the cute boy she meets on the beach turns out to be Beckett Blackwell, son of the biggest old guard magical family there is.

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#Lia and Beckett's Abracadabra #Amy Noelle Parks #Amulet books #July 5 2022

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Finally coming around to this! We are VERY fictive heavy so be respectful of that!

If you feel uncomfortable with any member we will have tags for each one so you can block it!

We all go by Cupid, if you are not sure who is fronting!! And also we all use She/Her, but we are fine with They/Them Too

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Beatrice Luna Reden (I Love Amy)

Camila Angelica Connors (I Love Amy)

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Peter Dale (I Love Amy)

Alice Reden (I Love Amy)

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Ultimate Imposter/Twogami (Danganronpa)

Teruteru Hanamura (Danganronpa)

Ult. Hope Mahiru Koizumi (Danganronpa Au)

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Kazuichi Souda (Danganronpa)

Sonia Nevermind (Danganronpa)

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Kirumi Tojo (Danganronpa)

Tenko Chabashira (Danganronpa)

Kokichi Ouma (Danganronpa)

Noelle Holiday (Deltatune- Snowgrave Route)

Chara (Undertale)

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Josuke Higashikata 8 (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)

Angel Dust goes by "Angelica" (Hazbin Hotel)

Lute (Hazbin Hotel)

Lilith (Hazbin Hotel)

Courtney (Total Drama)

Scott (Total Drama)

Ella (Total Drama)

Lauren goes by "Scary" (Total Drama)

Julia (Total Drama)

Wally Darling (Welcome Home)

Spinel goes by "Sparkles" (Steven Universe)

Marceline (Adventure Time)

Betty Grof (Adventure Time)

The Star (Fionna and Cake)

Magic Marceline (Adventure Time Au)

Sonic goes by "Speed" (Sonic The Hedgehog)

Katsuki Bakugo (My Hero Academia)

Saitama (One Punch Man)

Pandemonica (Helltaker)

Modeus (Helltaker-Not Including Examtaker)

Azazel (Helltaker)

The Loremaster (Helltaker)

Justice (Helltaker- Not Including Examtaker)

Lucifer (Helltaker)

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Mom Lalonde/Beta Roxy Lalonde (Homestuck)

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awakefor48hours · 1 year

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Along with appreciating healthy m/f friendships, I also want to take this moment to appreciate healthy f/f friendships. There's a lot of female characters who hate each other in media but I also do want to appreciate the female characters who are friends and have healthy bonds with each other.

Feel free to add on

Rosa and Amy - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Alya and Marinette - Miraculous Ladybug

Clarisse and Annabeth - Riordanverse

Rukia and Orihime - Bleach

Erza and Lucy - Fairy Tail

Noelle and Vanessa - Black Clover

Ruby and Blake - RWBY

Momo and Jirou - My Hero Academia

Sasha, Anne, and Marcy (I know it's three of them) - Amphibia

Willow and Luz - The Owl House

Gigi and Reagan - Inside Job

Glimmer and Adora - She Ra

Robin and Nancy - Stranger Things

Leslie and Ann - Parks and Rec

Max and Jane/Eleven - Stranger Things

Penny and Ruby - RWBY

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bookaddict24-7 · 2 years

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (July 5th, 2022)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Promise of Lost Things by Helene Dunbar

The Darkening by Sunya Mara

Who We Were in the Dark by Jessica Taylor

Lia & Beckett’s Abracadabra by Amy Noelle Parks

A Disaster in Three Acts by Kelsey Rodkey

Frightmares by Eva V. Gibson

The Charmed List by Julie Abe

What Souls Are Made Of by Tasha Suri

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw

The Not So Chosen One by Kate Emery

New Sequels:

When Souls Tear (Time Catchers #2) by Karen Ginnane

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Happy reading!

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speakoutmymind · 11 months

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Meet the girls - Pt. 3

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Nina (by Hozier) x Sofia (by Clairo) – Nina is with her blue eyes, long blond hair and sweet pastel clothes the girl every bad boy dreams of owning. What they don’t know is that this girl can pull your heart out your chest with only one look. If you try to mess with her, she will play a different game with you, you will never forget. She loves to go for long walks, self made clothes and Prosecco. – Sofia is a Social Media Star. She knows how to act and talk in font of a camera and loves to be creative with Apps like Instagram and TikTok. She didn't forgot where she comes from but also uses her knowledge of people to get the girls in a few clubs and restaurants. She is outgoing and knows well how to deal with the fame she got.

Carmen (by Lana Del Rey) x Valerie (by Amy Winehouse) – Carmen is the queen of Grunge. Her husband is James Dean and her mother Lana Del Rey. She knows how to act mystery and dark but behind all of this facade is a creative women with a broken heart. She will never leave the house without a perfect eyeliner and her cigarettes. Beside this she is only home in a crowded room with people only paying attention to her from a far. A direct interaction with strangers is nothing she prefers. – Valerie is trapped in her 2000s. She knows how to run a party and act like a bitch in front of people how expect her to be like a cliché. She has a problem with alcohol and even she knows and her friends take care of her she doesn’t mind. Every day is a party for her and since she stoped searching for a real love, she jumps from bed to bed to find herself in every man and male attention she can get.

Rhiannon (by Fleetwood Mac) x Rosemary (by Edison Lighthouse) – Rhiannon is the kind of friend who will first check your tarot cards before giving you a honest advice from life. With all her little spells, mixtures and witchy crafted shit she is your biggest supporter or your biggest and strongest enemy. She knows exactly how to turn you into a princess or the frog. – Rosemary is a little fluffy puppy. At least she acts like that. The world has only happiness for her and around her. Beside this women you can only picture good times a day. She is up for any adventure in the natural and every traditional city where you can make great memories.

Iris (by The Goo Goo Dolls) x Noelle (by Wheatus) – Iris is loving about music, books and writing. She loves to go to concerts, meet up with her friends, turn a day down in a park to read a book, go out with the dog and then hurry home to write on her own book. She is creative but unsteady in everything she does. She has bad coping mecissims and even she knows, she will not change them. – Noelle is, to say it a nice way, a punk kid. New Wave, Raves, party and alcohol are where she feels home but also a n night at home with a classic movie like 10 things I hate about you or mean girls is on her agenda. She is trustfully but sometimes a bit to impulsive.

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zeenxo · 2 years

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"without her my world is ordinary."

amy noelle parks - the quantum weirdness of the almost kiss

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shieldofapollo · 28 days

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📚✨ Book Review: "The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss" by Amy Noelle Parks

"The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss" is a romantic comedy that will make you laugh and swoon. In this book, Caleb plays the role of the romantic fool, while Evie and Caleb's dynamic duo adds depth and humor to the story. Even though Evie has autism and anxiety, she remains fiercely independent, and Caleb's genuine concern for her well-being is endearing.

Amy Noelle Parks skillfully portrays Evie's neurodivergence, incorporating her challenges with authenticity and sensitivity. The evolution of Evie's feelings for Caleb is both touching and relatable, especially for those who have experienced depression and anxiety.

Overall, "The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss" is a heartwarming and charming read that seamlessly weaves together friendship, love, and self-discovery themes. Parks has created a memorable story filled with laughter, warmth, and heartfelt moments that will delight fans of YA romance. Take advantage of this gem! 💖📖

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mssarahmorgan · 7 months

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Book 59 of 2023: The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss by Amy Noelle Parks

This was really unexpectedly sweet and heartfelt and lovely! Evie's a physics genius with severe anxiety. Caleb is her best friend/protector. He's basically in love with her, but she's not ready for dating, so he's biding his time--except all of a sudden, she *is* ready to date, and she's dating somebody else. So while Evie & Caleb prepare for a huge, potentially life-changing physics competition, Caleb sends Evie anonymous messages, seeing if they can connect in a different way if she thinks he's someone new. Evie's anxiety is handled really sensitively and thoughtfully, and it's all very emotional and lovely and sweet. I really loved this one.

What to read next: Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling, by Elise Bryant, for another YA about people who are grappling with the divide between who they are and who they think they're supposed to be.

#books #books i've read #read in 2023 #ya

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publishedtoday · 2 years

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July 5, 2022 Roundup

The Charmed List - Julie Abe ✊🏾

The Promise of Lost Things - Helene Dunbar 🏳️‍🌈

Frightmares - Eva V. Gibson

The Darkening - Sunya Mara (The Darkening #1) ✊🏾①

Lia and Beckett’s Abracadabra - Amy Noelle Parks

A Disaster in Three Acts - Kelsey Rodkey

What Souls Are Made Of - Tasha Suri ✊🏾

Who We Were in the Dark - Jessica Taylor

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mercerislandbooks · 3 years

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For the Love of the Rom-com

While I read across genres in the Young Adult section, I have a soft spot in my heart for the rom-com. Though this genre might come across as light and fluffy, in actuality the form is able to take on topics as varied as mental health, identity, immigration, racism, and grief, to name only a few. Sure there’s romance, escapism, and happy endings, but what kept me picking up one YA rom-com after another in the last month was the window into the lives of each protagonist. More than ever I’m seeing #ownvoices authors tell stories that reflect their particular experience with the characters that they hadn’t seen in novels as young people. In turn I get a glimpse into a life different than my own and subsequently widen my world view. Here’s a collection of some of my recent reads!

Counting Down With You by Tashie Bhuiyan

The debut novel from this Bangladeshi American author (and the first novel I’ve read by a Bangladeshi American) takes the fake dating trope and turns it into a thoughtful exploration of expectations across cultures. Karina Ahmed is a high school junior buckling under the weight of Bangladeshi parental expectations and coping with anxiety largely on her own. They want her to be a doctor. She secretly longs to be an English teacher. When her parents take a month-long trip back to Bangladesh, leaving Karina and her younger brother in the care of their grandmother, Karina is looking forward to a much needed break. But her quiet month is almost immediately disrupted when, through a series of circumstances, she is roped into pretending to be Ace Clyde’s girlfriend, Midland High School’s bad boy. As the two slowly get to know, appreciate, and, of course, fall for each other, they also encourage and call out each other’s strengths. Bhuiyan movingly portrays the complex experience of a Bangladeshi American female teen, trying to meet the expectations of her more traditional parents, navigate managing her anxiety, dealing with the double standard of her gender within her culture, and learning to stand in her own power.

Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

Given this cover, I expected something totally different from what the pages held. The main character of this “lost princess found” novel is anything but sweet and demure, the impression I had from the cover. Japanese American Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka is living her best average life with her single mother in the small Northern California town of Mt. Shasta. When she finds out that her previously unknown father is actually the crown prince of Japan, her world turns upside down. Once this knowledge goes public, Izzy is whisked away to Japan to get to know her father and become acquainted with the rest of her family. Having always felt out of place as one of the few minorities in her town, Izzy is hopeful that she’ll finally find a place where she belongs. But life at court is more complicated than Izzy can imagine, and she finds that in Japan she’s too “American.” Izzy’s voice is suffused with humor, so even as she struggles to fit in, her inner monologue made me laugh out loud. A slow burn romance with a hot bodyguard, backstabbing cousins, and relentless paparazzi shenanigans only add to the delicious fun. There’s talk of a sequel in 2022!

Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter

The premise of girl uses boy next door, with whom she (seemingly) shares a mutual dislike, to get to the boy she crushed on in childhood that has just moved back to town manages to squeeze in a slew of rom-com tropes with witty breeziness. Liz makes a deal with boy next door Wes that she will relinquish the parking spot they feud over daily if he will help her get a date to Prom with childhood crush Michael. Of course it ends up being more complicated than that. Liz is confident and comfortable in her own quirky skin, but is also still dealing with the grief of losing her mother, which seems to be hitting her more sharply as all the “lasts” of senior year are happening. Spending time with Wes in her efforts to get close to Michael, Liz realizes that maybe she doesn’t hate him as much as she thought she did. Movie lovers will appreciate that each chapter is headed by quotes from the rom-coms that Liz obsesses over. I appreciated the balance of snarky banter with an honest portrayal of the complicated relationship Liz has with her grief.

Love in English by Maria E. Andrew

I’d been meaning to read Love in English for months and finally picked it up. Ana and her mother have recently moved to New Jersey from Argentina to join her father, who’s been living in the United States for some time. In Argentina, Ana thought her English was pretty good, but finds that navigating high school in America is a daily struggle in understanding her classmates and teachers. Andrew uses blocks of ##### to show the parts of conversations Ana misses, drawing the reader into her confusion and frustration. Reading this novel, I was reminded of when my family hosted a Japanese exchange student in high school, and the hours she spent translating her homework from English to Japanese. Reading what it was like for Ana, I had a glimpse into what it might have been like for Miki, and it made me admire her, and all the people who come to the United States not knowing the language. I’m certainly not proficient in any other language than English. The short chapters are interspersed with Ana’s handwritten ESL journal entries, musings on the confusions of the English language and poems that play with varieties of word meanings. Ana is attracted to a cute boy in her math class, Harrison, but also bonds with fellow ESL student Neo, who is from Greece. While romance is a central thread in the story, what I found most compelling was the portrayal of what it’s like to live in a place where the ability to communicate and comprehend is limited. Ana’s perseverance and curiosity in the face of that challenge is inspiring.

The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss by Amy Noelle Parks

Last but not least I decided to continue my theme of YA rom-coms in my current audiobook and cued up The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss. Set at an elite boarding school for math and science prodigies, this is a dual POV narrative Evie and Caleb, best friends since childhood. Evie is one of the few females at their prestigious school, and excels in math and physics, but hasn’t shown any interest in the opposite sex until new guy Leo catches her eye - with his physics proof. When Evie decides romance might be worth exploring with Leo, Caleb has to figure out how to be supportive, despite the fact that he himself is also secretly in love with Evie. Alternating chapters between Caleb and Evie’s POV mean that we get to see what’s going on internally for both of them as Evie embarks on her first relationship with Leo, Evie and Caleb team up for a national physics competition, and the course of love takes twists and turns. While there is plenty of swoony romance, I also loved the way that Evie has grown to learn to live with her anxiety and how she sets the boundaries she needs to take care of herself while also pushing herself beyond her comfort zone. Parks does an excellent job of making the all the math and physics approachable for the layperson.

There are many more YA rom-coms to choose from in the Teen section, so stop by and see what catches your eye!

— Lori

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andiree · 3 years

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✨NEW BOOK COVER ALERT ✨

Back at it again with Amy Noelle Parks! This was a fun one, and I'm glad I got the chance to work on another cover for her stories. Romance AND magic? SAY LESS.

Check out Lia and Beckett's Abracadabra and don't forget to pre-order!

AD: Heather Kelly / Abrams Books

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illustration-alcove · 3 years

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Andi Porretta’s book cover for Amy Noelle Parks’s The Quantum of the Almost-Kiss.

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2021ya · 4 years

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THE QUANTUM WEIRDNESS OF THE ALMOST KISS

by Amy Noelle Parks

(Amulet, 1/5/21)

9781419739729

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Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham has never been interested in dating. She's been fully occupied by her love of mathematics and her frequent battles with anxiety (and besides, she's always found the idea of kissing to be a little bit icky). But with the help of her best friend and her therapist, Evie's feeling braver. Maybe even brave enough to enter a prestigious physics competition and to say yes to the new boy who's been flirting with her. Caleb Covic knows Evie isn't ready for romance but assumes that when she is, she will choose him. So Caleb is horrified when he is forced to witness Evie's meet cute with a floppy-haired, mathematically gifted transfer student. Because Caleb knows the girl never falls for the funny best friend when there's a mysterious stranger around, he decides to use an online forum to capture Evie's interest. Now, he's got Evie wondering if it's possible to fall in love with a boy she's never met. Told in the alternating voices of Evie and Caleb, THE QUANTUM WEIRDNESS OF THE ALMOST KISS is a YA romantic comedy, sure to satisfy fans of Jenny Han, Rainbow Rowell and Stephanie Perkins.

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