The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit.

Recommended by a UHS student: “It teaches teenagers not to be rebellious with their parents and it also involves romance.”