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All-American
Girl by Meg
Cabot
J CAB
A sophomore girl stops a presidential
assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United
Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.
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All's Fair in Love, War, and High School
by Janette Rallison
J RAL
When head cheerleader Samantha Taylor does
poorly on the SAT exam, she determines that her only hope for
college admission is to win the election for student body president,
but her razor wit and acid tongue make her better suited to dishing
out insults than winning votes.
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Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by
Louise Rennison
J REN
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the
life of 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. [The first book
in the series.]
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Boy Meets Girl
by Meg Cabot
Fiction Cabot
Kate, an earnest young human resources
representative at the New York Journal, must handle a dreadful case.
Her evil boss, Amy, is forcing her to fire the beloved Ida Lopez,
whose desserts are famous in the senior staff room, just because Ida
refused a second dessert to the detestable Stuart Hertzog, Amy's
beau and the paper's lawyer. When Ida Lopez sues the paper for
wrongful termination, the case goes to Mitchell, Stuart's handsome,
unconventional brother. Kate is charmed by Mitch, despite the fact
that she is sure he is just like his brother. He is certainly
nothing like her ex-boyfriend, Dale, who is still trying to get her
back though he still doesn't want to get married.
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The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
Fiction Cabot
Gossip columnist and single New York City girl
Mellives lives in the most exciting place in the world, yet she's
bored with her love life. But things get interesting fast when the
old lady next door is nearly murdered. Mel starts paying closer
attention to her neighbors--what exactly is going on with the cute
boy next door? Has Mel found the love of her life--or a killer?
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Confessions of a Not-It Girl by Melissa Cantor
J MAR / YA Fiction
Jan Miller named after artist Jan van Eyck
(pronounced "Yahn") is obsessed with the size of her bottom, can't
think of what to write in her college application essays and is
unsure if Josh, her crush who recently moved from Seattle to New
York City, has a girlfriend back home. In contrast, her confident
best friend, Rebecca, was just named one of New York's "It Girls" by
Chic magazine, gets accepted to Brown and is secretly dating a law
student who worked at her dad's firm (and who thinks she's much
older).
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The Cannibals:
Starring Tiffany Spratt by Cynthia D. Grant
J GRA
In her journal the relentlessly superficial
Tiffany, head of the cheerleading group called the Cannibals,
describes the excitement and turmoil of her senior year in high
school.
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The Earth, My
Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
J MAC
Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves is sure that
she's the weakest link in her high-powered family until her
handsome, athletic, star-student brother shockingly falls from
grace.
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Feeling
Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
J MOR and FICTION MOR
This hilariously candid novel uses original
letters exchanged between teenage friends, refrigerator notes from a
madcap mother, and darkly comic epistles from heroine Elizabeth
Clarry to show that the roller coaster ride of being a teenager is
every bit as fun as it is harrowing.
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Gossip Girl
by
Cecily
Von Zeisiger
J VON and FICTION VON
At a New York City jet-set private school populated
by hard-drinking, bulimic, love-starved poor little rich kids, a
clique of horrible people behave badly to one another. An omniscient
narrator sees inside the shallow hearts of popular Blair Waldorf,
her stoned hottie of a boyfriend, Nate, and her former best friend
Serena van der Woodsen, just expelled from boarding school and
"gifted with the kind of coolness that you can't acquire by buying
the right handbag or the right pair of jeans. She was the girl every
boy wants and every girl wants to be."
[The book is the first of the series.]
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Heart on my
Sleeve by Ellen Wittlinger
J WIT
From the end of high school to the beginning
of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their
families and friendships and explore their feelings for each other
through emails, letters, and a visit.
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Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses
by Cathy Hopkins
JP H
Stumped when assigned an essay on "What makes me
`me'?" Lucy enters a self-esteem nosedive worsened by a disastrous
haircut. Finally, with a little help from her friends (who, among
other things, buy her an inflatable bra) and a heart-to-heart with
her mom, she's able to realize her gifts.
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My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of
Angelica Cookson Potts by Cherry Whytock
J WHY
Believing she is too big, fourteen-year-old Angel tries dieting and
kick-boxing to lose weight, but thanks to her friends and the school
fashion show, she discovers that her size is just right. Includes
recipes. [Second book of the series is
My Scrumptious Scottish Dumplings.]
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Princess
and the Pauper by Kate Brian
J BRI
When sixteen-year-old Julia, of Los Angeles,
and sixteen-year-old Princess Carina, of Vineland, switch places,
Julia dances at the ball with the incredible Markus and Carina
escapes rigid protocol to spend time with a rock star.
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Rob&Sara.com by P.J.
Petersen and Ivy Ruckman
J PET
Rob, who lives at a school for troubled teenagers,
and Sara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of an army colonel, meet in
a poetry chat-room and develop a close relationship via email.
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The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants and The Second
Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
J BRA
Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of
their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants.
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Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
J CAB
When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a
small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he
persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to
try to change things at school for the better.
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