Boys Hanging Out with Girls
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Reality Check by Peter Abrahams MYS TEEN ABRAHAMS After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody’s college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search. Catalog Link |
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The Future of Us by Jay Asher,Carolyn Mackler TEEN ASHER It’s 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on—and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future. Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out. Catalog Link |
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24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley TEEN BRADLEY Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date to the prom. Or so he thinks. Percy and Natalie, Jack’s so-called best friends, post an ad in the classified section of the online version of the school newspaper. They figure it couldn’t hurt. After all, there’s not much in this world sadder than Jack’s love life. Soon Percy and Natalie have assembled a list of girls eager to go to the prom with Jack, including one mysterious girl known only as FancyPants. He has just seven days to meet and date them before he will ask one special girl to the prom. Catalog Link |
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn,David Levithan TEEN COHN High school student Nick O’Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart. Catalog Link |
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Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford TEEN CRAWFORD Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible. Catalog Link |
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Friend Is Not a Verb by Daniel Ehrenhaft TEEN EHRENHAFT While sixteen-year-old Hen’s family and friends try to make his supposed dreams of becoming a rock star come true, he deals with the reality of being in a band with an ex-girlfriend, a friendship that may become love, and his older sister’s mysterious disappearance and reappearance. Catalog Link |
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The Girlfriend Project by Robin Friedman TEEN FRIEDMAN New Jersey high school senior Reed Walton has never had a girlfriend, but once he gets his braces off, gets contact lenses, and turns into a “hottie,” his two best friends set up a website to remedy the situation. Catalog Link |
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Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about The Grapes of Wrath by Steven Goldman TEEN GOLDMAN Mitch, a shy and awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social situations he encounters, both with girls and with his best friend David, after David reveals to him that he is gay. Catalog Link |
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An Abundance of Katherines by John Green TEEN GREEN Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships. Catalog Link |
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green,David Levithan TEEN GREEN When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other’s best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both. Catalog Link |
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Saving Maddie by Varian Johnson INSPIR TEEN JOHNSON Joshua Wynn is definitely what you would call a good guy. He’s a preacher’s son who chooses abstinence and religious retreats over crazy nights and wild parties…One Sunday, Joshua’s mind drifts from his father’s sermon to a beautiful girl in the fifth row. She’s gorgeous, wearing a dress cut down to there, and she looks like the little girl he crushed on as a kid. It turns out that Maddie Smith is back in town, but instead of throwing her a welcome-back picnic, the community condemns her for her provocative clothes and the rumors about her past…But can Joshua save Maddie without losing himself? Catalog Link |
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Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby TEEN JUBY Ninth-grader Sherman Mack investigates the Defilers, a secret group at his British Columbia high school that marks certain female students as pariahs, at first because he is trying to protect the girl he has a crush on but later as a matter of principle. Catalog Link |
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Playing with Matches by Brian Katcher TEEN KATCHER While trying to find a girl who will date him, Missouri high school junior Leon Sanders befriends a lonely, disfigured female classmate. Catalog Link |
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Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto by Eric Luper TEEN LUPER After his girlfriend breaks up with him and he sees his father out with another woman, high school senior Seth Baumgartner, who has a summer job at the country club and is preparing for a father-son golf tournament, launches a podcast in which he explores the mysteries of love. Catalog Link |
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Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley GRAPHIC TEEN SCOTT 23-year-old slacker Scott Pilgrim plays in a rock band and has a high school girlfriend until he meets Ramona Flowers and has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Catalog Link |
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The Cardturner by Louis Sachar TEEN SACHAR When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge. Catalog Link |
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What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones TEEN SONES Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for “loser,” and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard. Catalog Link |
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Zen And The Art Of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick TEEN SONNENBLICK When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer—and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master. Catalog Link |
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Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff TEEN ZADOFF Fifteen-year-old Andrew Zansky, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush. Catalog Link |
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Underdogs by Markus Zusak TEEN ZUSAK Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are champions at getting into fights, coming up with half-baked schemes, and generally disappointing everyone. But when Cameron falls for Ruben’s girlfriend, the strength of their bond is tested to its breaking point. Catalog Link |