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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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All descriptions taken from Novelist.