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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.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionTeen Protagonist
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Someone Like You

Sarah Dessen · 288 pages

Halley has always followed in the wake of her best friend, Scarlett. But when Scarlett learns that her boyfriend has been killed in a motorcycle accident, and that she's carrying his baby, she's devastated. For the first time ever, Scarlett really needs Halley. Though their friendship may be tested by the strain, like a true friendship, it will endure.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionTeen Protagonist
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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

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionTeen Protagonist
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Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Ann Brashares · 400 pages

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again. Carmen: Falls under the spell of a sophisticated college friend for whom a theatrical role means everything and the heritage of the

Young AdultFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume · 149 pages

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can b

Female FriendshipContemporary FictionTeen ProtagonistFriendship and Betrayal
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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.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionFriendship and Betrayal
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Notes from the Teenage Underground

Simmone Howell · 335 pages

Seventeen-year-old film buff Gem sets out to make an underground movie with her friends Lo and Mira, but discovers much about her own life in the process.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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Chasing Charlie Duskin

Cath Crowley · 233 pages

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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.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionFriendship and Betrayal
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First There Was Forever

Juliana Romano · 408 pages

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Burned

Ellen Hopkins · 544 pages

NY Times bestseller, is the story of a young woman, struggling to find her place in the world in the face of abuse by the person she most adores: her father. She questions her family, her faith, and her ability to love and be loved. Suspended from school, she is sent to rural Nevada to live with an aunt whom she barely knows. There she finds love, acceptance and new knowledge about the things t

Young AdultContemporary FictionTeen ProtagonistFaith Crisis
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Purity

Jackson Pearce

Sixteen-year-old Shelby finds it difficult to balance her mother's dying request to live a life without restraint with her father's plans for his "little princess," which include attending a traditional father-daughter dance that culminates with a ceremonial vow to live "whole, pure lives."

Young AdultContemporary FictionTeen ProtagonistFaith Crisis
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The Worst Girlfriend in the World

Sarra Manning · 352 pages

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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.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionTeen Protagonist
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Something Like Fate

Susane Colasanti · 268 pages

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Kiss & Blog

Alyson Noel · 240 pages

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Before I Fall

Lauren Oliver

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Threadneedle

Cari Thomas · 576 pages

Female FriendshipYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFriendship and Betrayal
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Since You've Been Gone

Morgan Matson · 464 pages

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionTeen Protagonist
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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 AdultContemporary FictionTeen Protagonist
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Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson · 197 pages

"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionTeen 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.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionTeen Protagonist
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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.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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