11 YA Books With Happy Endings to Read on the Beach This Summer

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Molly Horan
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11 YA Books With Happy Endings to Read on the Beach This Summer
: A woman reads a book on the 'Club 55' beach on August 9, 2013 in Saint-Tropez, France. Credit: Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic

Recent young adult blockbusters have been a tad depressing, to say the least.

If you're still railing against the end of the Divergent trilogy and wiping the mascara from your face after re-reading The Fault in Our Stars, you might be in the mood for a happier YA beach read this summer.

These books have their own forms of darkness, but the final chapters should leave you smiling, not sniffling.

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