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Sleepaway Girls

Jen Calonita

When Sam's best friend gets her first boyfriend, she's not ready to spend the summer listening to the two of them call each other "pookie." Sick of being a third wheel, Sam applies to be a counselor-in-training at Whispering Pines camp in the New York Catskills. But what she doesn't realize is that it's not going to be all Kumbaya sing-alongs and gooey s'mores. If Ashley, the alpha queen of Whispe

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First Crush

Cassandra Calin

The second book in the series “The New Girl.” Someone has feelings for Lia while she hopes to get the attention of Julien.

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Stacey's Lie

Ann M. Martin · 162 pages

When Stacey's father decides to take her on a vacation with him Stacey wants to go to Fire Island where her boyfriend, Robert, is vacationing with his family. Can Stacey get away with not telling her father or Robert what she is up to?

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Drama

Raina Telgemeier · 240 pages

Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the cre

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Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle · 368 pages

In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town. Holiday tales of love and romance.

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Sloppy Firsts

Megan McCafferty · 297 pages

When her best friend moves away, sixteen-year-old Jessica is devastated and finds it difficult to deal with the girls at school, her obsessive parents, and her lack of a love life.

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Twenty Boy Summer

Sarah Ockler

"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.""Okay.""Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?""Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy ever day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first su

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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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Betsy in Spite of Herself

Maud Hart Lovelace · 272 pages

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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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Thirteen Plus One

Lauren Myracle · 290 pages

As Winnie and her friends count the days until the beginning of high school, they attend a summer camp where they learn about sea turtles--as well as human relationships.

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Lucky Few

Kathryn Ormsbee · 384 pages

The life of homeschooler Stevie Hart gets all shook up when she meets a strange boy, Max, who survived a freak near-fatal accident and is now obsessed with death. He enlists her and her best friend, Sanger, to help him complete his absurd 23 Ways to Fake My Death Without Dying checklist. What starts off as fun begins spiraling downward when Stevie s diabetes sabotages her fumbling romance with M

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Marshmallow Skye

Cathy Cassidy

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Cloudy with a Chance of Boys

Megan McDonald · 266 pages

As the middle sister in a family with three girls, Stevie Reel doesn't know much about boys, and that's always been just fine with her. But lately, things have been changing: kids at school are starting to pair up, and Owen, the new boy in her class, seems to have his sights set on Stevie.

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Flipped

Wendelin Van Draanen · 212 pages

The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort." But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he's thinking there's more to her than meets

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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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Something Like Fate

Susane Colasanti · 268 pages

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Her Name in the Sky

Kelly Quindlen

Hannah has big plans for senior year: football games, Mardi Gras parties, and spring break on the beach with her tight-knit group of friends. No drama, no detours. Just a year to remember. Falling for another girl—her best friend, Baker—was not part of the plan. Hannah knows she should date Wally, the earnest, dependable boy her sister is always teasing her about. She should be happy when Cl

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han · 384 pages

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would nev

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Sean Griswold's Head

Lindsey Leavitt · 290 pages

After discovering that her father has multiple sclerosis, fifteen-year-old Payton begins counselling sessions at school, which lead her to become interested in a boy in her biology class, have a falling out with her best friend, develop an interest in bike riding, and eventually allow her to come to terms with life's uncertainties.

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How Hard Can Love Be?

Holly Bourne · 480 pages

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Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Jody Gehrman · 256 pages

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Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 17

Karuho Shiina

Sadako, feeling like her boyfriend Kazehaya is being distant, decides to take a drastic step in order to finally reach him.

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