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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares · 310 pages

Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they're fabulous. Lena decides they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody kn

Friendship and BetrayalEating DisordersFemale FriendshipYoung Adult
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Just Listen

Sarah Dessen · 377 pages

Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything" — at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store. This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong. Tall, dark, and mu

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Gossip Girl

Cecily von Ziegesar · 203 pages

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep—sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends’ hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I’ll be watching closely . . . You know you love me,

Female FriendshipFriendship and BetrayalYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Rival

Sara Bennett Wealer

Two high school rivals compete in a prestigious singing competition while reflecting on the events that turned them from close friends to enemies the year before.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Wildlife

Fiona Wood · 385 pages

Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Identical

Ellen Hopkins · 624 pages

Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family—on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin. For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a

Young AdultTeen ProtagonistEating DisordersMultiple POV
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The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

Kody Keplinger · 352 pages

This is about a girl named Bianca and she just learnt that she is the DUFF of her friend group.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Girls of No Return

Erin Saldin · 345 pages

A troubled sixteen-year-old girl attending a wilderness school in the Idaho mountains must finally face the consequences of her complicated friendships with two of the other girls at the school.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Kiss & Blog

Alyson Noel · 240 pages

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Unbelievable

Sara Shepard · 288 pages

Four pretty little liars' charmed lives have turned into living nightmares. Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars—because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: She's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much. If these girls don't start listening to me, Ha

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Every Last Word

Tamara Ireland Stone · 400 pages

Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Underneath Everything

Marcy Beller Paul · 293 pages

Mattie discovers surprising things about herself and her long-term best friends when she decides she has had enough of her self-imposed isolation from most of the school and two of her three friends, reconnects with her ex-boyfriend, and enjoys all the parties senior year has to offer.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Not If I See You First

Eric Lindstrom · 310 pages

Parker Grant doesn't need 20/20 vision to see right through you. That's why she created the Rules: Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind, andnever take advantage. There will be no second chances. Just ask Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Cut

Patricia McCormick · 160 pages

While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistEating Disorder Content
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The Worst Girlfriend in the World

Sarra Manning · 352 pages

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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#scandal

Sarah Ockler · 416 pages

When pictures of Lucy kissing her best friend's boyfriend emerge on the world of social media, she becomes a social pariah after the scandal rocks the school.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Something Like Fate

Susane Colasanti · 268 pages

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Awakened

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast · 304 pages

Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa's House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn't it? Why should she r

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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First There Was Forever

Juliana Romano · 408 pages

Friendship and BetrayalTeen ProtagonistFemale FriendshipYoung Adult
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If I Tell

Janet Gurtler

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz

A.S. King · 326 pages

When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Sweet Little Lies

Lauren Conrad · 309 pages

How Sweet it is?Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Now the girls have an all-access pass to Hollywood's hottest everything. But there's more to life on camera than just parties and shopping...When racy photos of Jane are leaked to the press, she finds herself at the center of a tabloid scandal. She tu

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The Lipstick Laws

Amy Holder · 238 pages

When Britney, the most popular girl at Penford High School, invites April Bowers to her lunch table April is thrilled with her sudden change in status, but soon finds that Britney's friendship comes at a steep price.

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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How It Ends

Catherine Lo · 304 pages

Friendship and BetrayalFemale FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary Fiction

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