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Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they\u2019ve never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they\u2019re surprised . . . and curious.<\/em><\/p>\n Their parents are all clear on one point\u2013not going is not an option. This could be the opportunity to get back into Grandmother\u2019s good graces. But when the cousins arrive on the island, it\u2019s immediately clear that she has different plans for them. And the longer they stay, the more they realize how mysterious\u2013and dark\u2013their family\u2019s past is.<\/em><\/p>\n The entire Story family has secrets. Whatever pulled them apart years ago isn\u2019t over\u2013and this summer, the cousins will learn everything.<\/em> – Delacorte Press<\/p>\n Looking for some other young adult literature? Try any of the following.<\/p>\n As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome Readers! This month the Online Reading Challenge is focusing on young adult literature. Our main title for September is The Cousins by Karen McManus. Here\u2019s a quick summary from the publisher: Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they\u2019ve never even met[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3371,5,1,8],"tags":[9460,9461,9629,3395,9628,10321],"class_list":["post-57201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-9460","tag-genres","tag-karen-mcmanus","tag-online-reading-challenge","tag-the-cousins","tag-young-adult-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-eSB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57558,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57201\/revisions\/57558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-cousins.jpg?resize=200%2C303&ssl=1\")
<\/a>This month the Online Reading Challenge is focusing on young adult literature. Our main title for September is The Cousins<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Karen McManus. Here\u2019s a quick summary from the publisher:<\/p>\n\n