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How to Be Bad

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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

Female FriendshipYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMultiple POV
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Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Jody Gehrman · 256 pages

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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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

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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The Revenge Playbook

Rachael Allen · 361 pages

Working together to humiliate the revered high school football team that has been the source of their unhappiness, four teen girls make unexpected discoveries in their effort to steal the one thing the players most value.

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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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 FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Trinkets

Kirsten Smith · 288 pages

When three Lake Oswego High School girls from different social groups, good-girl Elodie, popular Tabitha, and tough Moe, meet in a rehabilitation group, they discover they have much more in common than shoplifting.

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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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 FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Chasing Charlie Duskin

Cath Crowley · 233 pages

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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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.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultMultiple POVTeen Protagonist
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Dreaming of Amelia

Jaclyn Moriarty · 526 pages

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistMultiple POVYoung Adult
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The Milk of Birds

Sylvia Whitman

When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fifteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Mates, Dates, and Great Escapes

Cathy Hopkins · 224 pages

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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That Time I Joined the Circus

J.J. Howard

After her father's sudden death and a break-up with her best friends, seventeen-year-old Lexi has no choice but to leave New York City seeking her long-absent mother, rumored to be in Florida with a traveling circus, where she just may discover her destiny.

FloridaYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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Dumplin'

Julie Murphy · 400 pages

Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.

Female FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary FictionTeen Protagonist
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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

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love

Dyan Sheldon · 350 pages

When fashionista Sicilee, arty Maya, and antisocial Waneeda risk their reputations by joining Clifton Springs High School's Environmental Club to be near gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot, each finds a new way of looking at the world.

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The International Kissing Club

Ivy Adams · 390 pages

Best friends Piper, Mei, Izzy, and Cassidy of Paris, Texas, spend a semester studying abroad and track their romantic escapades on a Facebook fan page.

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultMultiple POV
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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 FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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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 AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Fireworks

Katie Cotugno · 344 pages

It was always meant to be Olivia. She was the talented one, the one who had been training to be a star her whole life. Her best friend, Dana, was the level-headed one, always on the sidelines, cheering her best friend along.But everything changes when Dana tags along with Olivia to Orlando for the weekend, where superproducer Guy Monroe is holding auditions for a new singing group, and Dana is dis

FloridaFemale FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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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 FriendshipYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistMultiple POV
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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.

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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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.

Female FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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