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It's Not Like I Planned It This Way

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · back to the book

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The Last Little Blue Envelope

Maureen Johnson · 282 pages

Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.

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This Way to Paradise

Cathy Hopkins · 202 pages

The first book in a new trilogy. After a lifetime of moving about with her bohemian parents, 15-year-old India Jane is about to have a proper home at last. However, when her father takes a job in Sydney and her mother joins him, India is shipped off to her aunt who runs a health spa in Greece.

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Ask Amy Green: Boy Trouble

Sarah Webb

A thirteen-year-old Irish girl who helps her seventeen-year-old aunt write an advice column for lovelorn girls faces her own dilemma when she alienates her friends after falling for a cute but aloof boy in her art class.

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The Carrie Diaries

Candace Bushnell · 389 pages

Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became a writer.

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Love, Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli · 288 pages

LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new

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Cuba 15

Nancy Osa · 304 pages

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The Possibilities of Sainthood

Donna Freitas · 288 pages

While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.

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The Flywheel

Erin Gough · 309 pages

Seventeen-year-old Delilah's crazy life is about to get crazier. Ever since her father took off overseas she's been struggling to run the family's cafe without him. But after a misjudged crush of one of the cool girls, Del has become the school punchline. With all that's on her plate she barely has time for her favourite distraction - spying on the beautiful Rosa, who dances flamenco at the tapas

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Princess in Waiting

Meg Cabot · 259 pages

Never before has the world seen such a princess. Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. Mia's royal introduction to Genovia has mixed results: while her fashion sense is widely applauded, her position on the installation of public parking meters is met with resistance. But the politics of bureaucracy are nothing next to Mia's real troubles. Between canceled dates with her long—sought—af

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The Moon and More

Sarah Dessen · 435 pages

"During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie."--

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The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It

Lisa Shanahan · 304 pages

IN MY FAMILY, when anyone rides the wave of their emotions, we say they're chucking a birkett. When the emotion drives out all common sense, we say they're chucking a big one. The telltale signs are: flaming cheeks, shortness of breath, bulging eyes, and a prolonged illogical outburst.Gemma Stone is convinced that it's always unseemly to chuck a birkett and that it's actually insane to chuck one i

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P.S. I Still Love You

Jenny Han · 352 pages

Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. But suddenly they are together for real - and it's far more complicated than when they were pretending! Except suddenly they weren’t. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once? In this charming and heartfel

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Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

Louise Rennison · 214 pages

The further confessions of teenaged Georgia Nicolson continue as, among other things, she begins to wonder if Robbie is really the right boy for her.

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Isla and the Happily Ever After

Stephanie Perkins · 368 pages

Isla has had a crush on classmate Josh since their freshman year at the School of America in Paris, but after a chance encounter over the summer in Manhattan they return to France for their senior year where they are forced to confront challenges every young couple in love must face. As they begin their senior year in France, Isla and Josh are quickly forced to confront the heartbreaking reality

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The Lonely Hearts Club

Elizabeth Eulberg · 290 pages

Fed up with boys and the way they have treated her and her friends, high school junior Penny Lane--named after the Beatles song--forms a club whose members vow to stop dating, but the repercussions are surprising.

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Dairy Queen

Catherine Gilbert Murdock · 275 pages

After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

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True Friends

Robin Jones Gunn · 160 pages

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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

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Including Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Nick Vaccaro · 277 pages

First semester of 10th Grade (Sylvia and Ben get married. Alice contemplates the value of social customs.)

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Darkness Before Dawn

Sharon M. Draper · 256 pages

Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.

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Diary of a Chav

Grace Dent

Fifteen-year-old Shiraz Bailey Wood's days are filled with hanging around outside Claire's Accessories, her parents work crap jobs, and her school is pretty much loser central. But this loveable British dreamer with a brain and a heart of gold is beginning to feel there might be a lot more to life than minimum wage and the bling of a souped-up car.

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The Town That Drowned

Riel Nason · 276 pages

Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to the assembled crowd solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful day was her entire town — buildings and people — floating underwater. Then an ora

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Just One Day

Gayle Forman · 369 pages

Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and the search for true love.

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Come a Stranger

Cynthia Voigt · 256 pages

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