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With themes from Romeo and Juliet

 

Ms Bredberg has curated a list a book based on the themes of young love, forbidden love, revenge, and romances across different backgrounds below. 

You can also search for your own book ideas using NoveList.

After selecting a few book options, you may check their availability in the SHS Media Center Catalog, the CWMars Catalog, or Sora.

If the book is available in the media center or at a public library, Mrs. Bredberg can provide you with the book. 

THEN fill out the form at the bottom of this page with your book selections. 

Thanks!

Young Love

The books below include themes about young love, and all of the intensity and sometimes difficult or bad decisions that come from it. Many of the Romeo and Juliet retellings are included in this list. 

Young Love

He Said, She Said
Romiette and Julio
Song of the Buffalo Boy
The Fault in Our Stars
Tricks
Tilt
The First Part Last
Ronit & Jamil
Street Love
All the Bright Places
Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
Orbiting Jupiter
Saving Juliet
When You Were Mine


Emily Bredberg's favorite books »

Forbidden Love

The books below include themes about forbidden love or secret romances. The stories include love across cultures, love between rivals, or forbidden LGBTQIA romances. 

Forbidden Love

Everything, Everything
More Happy Than Not
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Moon at Nine
American Panda
The Selection
Blood and Salt
Five Feet Apart
Warm Bodies
Dream Things True
The Weight of Feathers
Flame in the Mist
The Siren
American Royals
The Beautiful
Mera: Tidebreaker
Pulp
If You Come Softly
If You Could Be Mine
Love, Hate & Other Filters


Emily Bredberg's favorite books »

Love Across Cultures or Backgrounds

The following books include stories of love between people of various backgrounds, and the complications that arise. 

Cross Cultural Romance

The Sun Is Also a Star
Eleanor & Park
The Radius of Us
Carry On
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Pride
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Frankly in Love
Out of Darkness
The Game of Love and Death
A Corner of White
Something in Between


Emily Bredberg's favorite books »

Revenge

The books below are stories about revenge, violence and anger. In these stories (as in Romeo and Juliet) the revenge snowballs into consequences that no one ever anticipated. 

Emily's revenge book montage

Hag-Seed
Long Way Down
Artemis
In Darkness
The Wrath and the Dawn
Black Diamond
True Grit
The Outsiders
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
As I Descended
Naughts & Crosses


Emily Bredberg's favorite books »

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CWMars Catalog

CWMars Catalog

CWMars is a consortium of libraries in Central and Western Massachusetts, including the Shrewsbury Public Library. You can search for books from all member libraries here.  consortium

Personal Reading eBooks and AudioBooks

Sora

Sora

Sora (in Self-Service) has ebooks, audiobooks, and comics. Select Shrewsbury Town Schools (twice) and log in with your school Google account.