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Bauer, Joan
Thwonk
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
215 p. 1995
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Burnham, Niki
Royally Jacked
After her mother announces that (1) she's gay, and (2) she's leaving Valerie's dad for her girlfriend, Valerie opts to go with her father who has a new job serving the royal family of some obscure European country. Valerie quickly learns this is a mistake - until she meets the prince.
229 p. 2004
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Cabot, Meg
Avalon High
Having recently moved to Annapolis, Maryland, Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where she and Will, the gorgeous class president have a curiously strong attraction to each other.
288 p. 2006
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Castellucci, Cecil
Boy Proof
Feeling alienated from everyone around her, Los Angeles high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies.
203 p. 2005
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Clark, Catherine
Maine Squeeze
Colleen Templeton spends a romantic summer before starting college working at Bobb's Lobster, sorting out her feelings for two possible boyfriends, and sharing a house with friends on the tiny Maine island she calls home.
349 p. 2004
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Dessen, Sarah
The Truth About Forever
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she meets Wes the bartender.
382 p. 2004
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Harper, Suzanne
The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order to help a friend.
364 p. 2007
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Mysteries for Teens
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Hopkins, Cathy
Midsummer Meltdown
Lia is over the moon because her friends have been invited to join her family in celebrating her mom's fortieth birthday in a secret location. It's going to be the party of the decade, and Lia imagines romantic scenes in an exotic location with her boyfriend, Squidge.
However, events don't go exactly as planned, and the final guest list is full of surprises. Lia finds herself in an awkward position when an old flame turns up and makes a play for her. It's midsummer, but does it mean meltdown for Lia and Squidge when the party's over?
212 p. 2006
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MacAlister, Katie
They Wear WHAT Under Their Kilts?
What do Scotsmen wear under their kilts? Hint: "It starts with N and ends with G and has OTHIN in the middle." Welcome back to the sidesplitting universe of Emily Williams. Em and her mousy classmate Holly move to a sheep farm in Scotland to fulfill a month-long work-study requirement. The land of haggis and men in skirts provide rich fodder for Emily's e-mails to distant friends, in which she recounts hilarious misadventures on and off the farm, including her contest with Holly to be the first to snog a farmhand.
197 p. 2004
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Mackler, Carolyn
Vegan Virgin Valentine
Mara's niece, who is only one year younger, moves in, bringing conflict between the two teenagers because of their opposite personalities.
228 p. 2004
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Meyer, Stephenie
Twilight : a Novel
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
498 p. 2005
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Vampires
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Horrorific
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Vampire Love
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Myracle, Lauren
Ttyl
Zoe, Maddie, and Angela have a lot to hash out - new boyfriends, old boyfriends, parties, roadtrips, and anything else that goes with being a sophomore - and they keep in touch with each other with instant messages.
209 p. 2004
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Palmer, Robin
Cindy Ella
Sophomore iconoclast Cindy Gold publishes an anti-prom letter in her high school newspaper, but when she develops a crush on her SAT tutor, on top of the ones she already has on popular senior Adam Silver as well as a boy she has been exchanging instant messages with, she begins to doubt her own convictions.
264 p. 2008
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Rushton, Rosie
The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love
Ellie, Abby, and Georgie Dashwood dislike their father's new wife and the effect she is having on him. When he dies suddenly, the girls and their mother learn that Mr. Dashwood left enormous debts and no inheritance, and the sting is even greater because he changed his will to leave the family's ancestral home to the new Mrs. Dashwood. Leaving their private school in the city to live in a small cottage in the country, their lives more than resemble a favorite Jane Austin book.
325 p. 2005
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Classics Revamped
Girl Talk
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Scott, Elizabeth
Bloom
There's a difference between falling and letting go. Lauren has a good life: decent grades, great friends, and a boyfriend every girl lusts after. So why is she so unhappy? It takes the arrival of Evan Kirkland for Lauren to figure out the answer: She's been holding back. She's been denying herself a bunch of things because staying with her loyal and gorgeous boyfriend, Dave, is the right thing to do. After all, who would give up the perfect boyfriend? But as Dave starts talking more and more about their life together, planning a future Lauren simply can't see herself in and as Lauren's craving for Evan, and moreover, who she is with Evan becomes all the more fierce Lauren realizes she needs to make a choice...before one is made for her.
231 p. 2007
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Shulman, Polly
Enthusiasm
Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.
198 p. 2006
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Girl Talk
If You Liked...Jane Austen's novels
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Whitcomb, Laura
A Certain Slant of Light
After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.
282 p. 2005
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Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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Woodson, Jacqueline
If You Come Softly
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
181 p. 1998
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Built to Last
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Zeises, Lara M.
Anyone but You : a Novel in Two Voices
Teenagers Seattle and Critter, faux step-siblings since Seattle's father left her with Critter's mother six-years earlier, spend the summer sorting through their romantic feelings and making decisions about what they want from life.
245 p. 2007
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