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WEETZIE BAT
by Francesca Lia Block
Post-modern fairy tales that chronicle the thin line between fear and desire, pain and pleasure, cutting loose and holding on in a world where everyone is vulnerable to the most excruciatingly beautiful and dangerous angel of all-love.

THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS SERIES
by Ann Brashares
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop and was planning to throw them away. But Tibby, Lena and Bridget think they're fabulous. Lena decides they should all try them on, and whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. They then decide to form a sisterhood.

THE PRINCESS DIARIES SERIES
by Meg Cabot
The trials of Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl, who is trying to deal with the fact that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

GINGERBREAD
by Rachel Cohn
After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.

THE A-LIST
by Zoey Dean
Seventeen-year-old blueblood Anna Percy leaves Manhattan to spend the second half of her senior year with her father in Los Angeles and quickly becomes involved in the lives of the rich and famous at Beverly Hills High School.

THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREVER
by Sarah Dessen
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

MATES, DATES AND INFLATABLE BRAS
by Cathy Hopkins
Everything around 14-year-old Lucy Loverling is changing, and she wonders when her own life will improve. The day Lucy sees the most wonderful boy, things do begin to change.

THE EARTH, MY BUTT AND OTHER BIG, ROUND THINGS
by Carolyn Mackler
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.

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SLOPPY FIRSTS
by Megan McCafferty
When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone.

FEELING SORRY FOR CELIA
by Jaclyn Moriarty
The daughter of divorced parents, Elizabeth is becoming reacquainted with her father, who has recently returned to Australia and wants to make up for all the time with her he's missed. Her life is further complicated by her best friend, Celia, who careens from one escapade to the next, confident someone else will bail her out.

DEFINE "NORMAL"
by Julie Anne Peters
When she agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor at their middle school, Antonia never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow will end up helping her deal with the serious problems she faces at home and become a good friend.

ANGUS, THONGS AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING
by Louise Rennison
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN
by Dyan Sheldon
In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.

WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN’T KNOW
by Sonya Sones
Sophie's mother doesn't know about the boy who is pressing Sophie to go further than she wants. Or about the boy she chats with online who wants to meet her. And she certainly can't tell her mother about the homeliest guy in school who she wonders about. These sharp, funny, and tragic poems tell of Sophie's sometimes painful but always passionate journey of self-discovery.

FLIPPED
by Wendelin Van Draanen
The first time Juli Baker saw Bryce Loski, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was in second grade. Not much changes until eighth grade, when Juli's enthusiastic infatuation wanes just as Bryce's begins to kick in.

GOSSIP GIRL SERIES
by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Presents a world of jealousy and betrayal at an exclusive private school in Manhattan.

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