Young Adult Romance

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Along for the Ride

Along for the Ride (Sarah Dessen) - YA FICTION DESSEN:

When Auden goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having fun new experiences. Check Availability

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Rachel Cohn) - YA FICTION COHN:

Nick needs a five-minute girlfriend to make his ex jealous and Norah needs to get herself and her friend a ride home from the club. When the members of Nick’s queercore band send them off together, Nick and Norah discover something real between them. Check Availability

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - YA FICTION AUSTEN:

Intrigue, misunderstandings and proper manners abound as Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy engage in a lively courtship that reveals the hypocrisy and comedy of polite society in eighteenth century England. Check Availability

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) - YA FICTION BRONTE:

Heathcliff and Catherine love each other passionately, even obsessively, but class differences and their own jealous natures keep them apart. Check Availability

Shiver Shiver (Maggie Stiefvater) - YA FICTION STIEFVATER:

In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.. Check Availability

Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer) - YA FICTION MEYER:

Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered. The fourth book in the Twilight saga. Check Availability

Stargirl

Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli) - YA FICTION SPINELLI:

In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. Check Availability

A Certain Slant of Light

A Certain Slant of Light (Laura Whitcomb) - YA FICTION WHITCOMB:

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. Check Availability

Forever

Forever (Judy Blume) - YA FICTION BLUME:

When high school seniors Katherine and Michael start dating, they believe their love and passion will last forever until Katherine surprises herself by developing feelings for another guy over the summer. Check Availability

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares) - YA FICTION BRASHARES:

During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences. Check Availability

Stoner and Spaz

Stoner and Spaz (Ron Koertge) - YA FIC KOERTGE:

Ben, a handicapped social outcast, and Colleen, a desperate drug addict, share a tenderness and mutual support that neither of them has had before. Check Availability

Stardust

Stardust (Neil Gaiman) - YA FICTION GAIMAN:

Living in a Victorian countryside town overshadowed by an imposing stone barrier, Tristran is compelled to retrieve a fallen star for the woman he loves and crosses to the wondrous other side of the barrier, where he encounters dangerous rivals for the star. Check Availability

I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You

I'd Tell You I Love You but Then I'd Have to Kill You (Ally Carter) - YA FICTION CARTER:

As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie speaks fourteen languages and can kill a man seven different ways, but when she meets a local boy and falls in love, having to lie to him is the hardest mission she’s ever been on. Check Availability

Romiette and Julio

Romiette and Julio (Sharon Draper) - YA FICTION DRAPER:

An African-American girl, Julio, and a Latino boy, Romiette, fall in love after meeting on the Internet. They struggle against racism, gangs, and their parents to be together in this modern retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Check Availability

The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess

The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess (Meg Cabot) - YA FICTION CABOT:

Although she has recently completed a 400-page romance novel, Princess Mia, in her last month of high school, has yet to pick a college, find a prom dress, or decide if her boyfriend J. P. is really The One. Check Availability

Scrambled Eggs at Midnight

Scrambled Eggs at Midnight (Brad Barkley) - YA FICTION BARKLEY:

Calliope and Eliot, two fifteen-year-olds in Asheville, North Carolina, begin to acknowledge some unpleasant truths about their parents and form their own ideas about love. Check Availability

I Heart You, You Haunt Me

I Heart You, You Haunt Me (Lisa Shroeder) - YA FICTION SCHROEDER:

When her recently deceased boyfriend, Jackson, reappears as a ghost, Ava is thrilled to have him in her life in any way she can, but when she finally begins to move on with her life, Jackson must find a way to let her go. Check Availability

The Nature of Jade

The Nature of Jade (Deb Caletti) - YA FICTION CALETTI:

Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family, until she spies a mysterious boy with a baby who seems to share her fascination with the elephants at a nearby zoo. Check Availability

Street Love

Street Love (Walter Dean Myers) - YA FICTION MYERS:

This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated. Check Availability

Lips Touch

Lips Touch (Laini Taylor) - YA FICTION TAYLOR:

Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls. Check Availability

If You Come Softly

If You Come Softly (Jacqueline Woodson) - YA FICTION WOODSON:

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. Check Availability

Annie On My Mind

Annie On My Mind (Nancy Garden) - YA FICTION GARDEN:

Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people. Check Availability

Boy Meets Boy

Boy Meets Boy (David Levithan) - YA FICTION LEVITHAN:

When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more. Check Availability

All descriptions taken from Novelist. 

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