Books featuring girls finding success, romance, adventure, and more.
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Beauty Queens by Libba Bray TEEN BRAY When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island’s other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition. Catalog Link |
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Stay by Deb Caletti TEEN CALETTI In a remote corner of Washington State where she and her father have gone to escape her obsessive boyfriend, Clara meets two brothers who captain a sailboat, a lighthouse keeper with a secret, and an old friend of her father who knows his secrets. Catalog Link |
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The Beginning of After by Jennifer Castle TEEN CASTLE In the aftermath of a car accident that killed her family, sixteen-year-old Laurel must face a new world of guilt, painful memories, and the possibility of new relationships. Catalog Link |
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Sixteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton ROM TEEN DALTON Sixteen-year-old Anna falls for Will, a New Yorker visiting her resort island for the summer, but she isn’t sure if one summer of love will be worth her heart breaking when he leaves at the end of August. Catalog Link |
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What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen TEEN DESSEN Following her parents’ bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs. Catalog Link |
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Chain Reaction (Perfect Chemistry Novels) by Simone Elkeles ROM TEEN ELKELES When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family. Catalog Link |
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Where She Went by Gayle Forman TEEN FORMAN Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier. Catalog Link |
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Stay with Me by Paul Griffin TEEN GRIFFIN Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Céce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother’s, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Céce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together. Catalog Link |
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We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han TEEN HAN The summer after her first year of college, Isobel “Belly” Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her. Catalog Link |
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Top of the Feud Chain (Alphas) by Lisi Harrison TEEN HARRISON Alpha Academy: Where betas get booted. Eccentric billionaire Shira Brazille founded the super-exclusive Alpha Academy on exotic Alpha Island to nurture the next generation of exceptional dancers, writers, musicians, and inventors. It’ s a dream come true for one hundred lucky girls, but those not measuring up can be sent home at any time, for any reason. The one left standing will win worldwide fame. Who will it be? Catalog Link |
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There You'll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones INSPIR TEEN JONES Eighteen-year-old Finley, seeking God, quiet time to prepare for an audition at a prestigious music conservatory, and knowledge of the land her deceased brother loved, spends senior year in Ireland, where teen movie idol Beckett Rush, equally troubled, desires her company. Catalog Link |
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Amplified by Tara Kelly TEEN KELLY When privileged seventeen-year-old Jasmine Kiss gets kicked out of her house by her father, she takes what is left of her meager savings and flees to Santa Cruz, California, to pursue her dream of becoming a rock musician. Catalog Link |
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Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez TEEN MARTINEZ Just before the most important violin competition of her career, seventeen-year-old prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother and a potential romance with her most talented rival. Catalog Link |
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Keep Me in Your Heart: Three Novels by Lurlene McDaniel TEEN MCDANIEL Collects three novels by the author, in which teenagers find compassion, strength, and love while recovering from tragic circumstances. |
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Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins TEEN PERKINS Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket. Catalog Link |
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She Loves You, She Loves You Not... by Julie Anne Peters TEEN PETERS When seventeen-year-old Alyssa is disowned by her father for being a lesbian, she is sent off to a small town in Colorado to live with the mother she has never known, where she is forced to come to terms with herself and her family. Catalog Link |
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Withering Tights (Misadventures of Tallulah Casey) by Louise Rennison TEEN RENNISON Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only. Catalog Link |