Recommendations please: "Around the world" - books/novels for YA/teen summer reading

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<p>Ah! DD shared with me WHY she didn’t want to watch The Basketball Diaries. “The title had the words ‘basketball’ and ‘diaries’ in it. Ew.” This kid is waaay too literal…and I can see it’s going to be a looong summer. Sigh. </p>