Romance

She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom...

News Flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo meets her at the airport!)

Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.)

Shock of the Century: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime princess material.

Mia must take princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne.

Well, her father can lecture her until he's royal-blue in the face about her princessly duty--no way is she moving to Genovia and leaving Manhattan behind. But what's a girl to do when her name is "Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo"?

What happens when an aloof and antisocial cinephile meets a new boy savvy enough to see through her cool, impenetrable disguise? Castellucci's smart and vulnerable heroine will please teen readers struggling with identity, choices, and relationships. Young Adult.

It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who's just walked in to his band's show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City--and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.
This he said/she said romance told by YA stars Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers, both recovering from broken hearts, who are just trying to figure out who they want to be--and where the next great band is playing.
Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this is a love story you'll wish wer

2007 Virginia Readers' Choice
Jason is a basketball star and one of the most popular guys in school. Brainy Kyra isn't so popular, but she doesn't care what other people think. A debut from an award-winning high school teacher, this sexy young-adult story tells what happens when the unlikely duo is paired up for a class project.

Dessen's most captivating novel yet introduces readers to a girl who believesher heart is made of stone--and the boy who proves her wrong. 5 1/2 x8 1/4.

YHBA Winner - 2005
Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet and the two are harassed by gang members who object to interracial dating.

Love Bukowski--her real name--begins her first year at prep school with few friends and even fewer opportunities to explore her namesake. Unless that hot senior takes notice of her.

Miles "Pudge" Halter befriends some fellow boarding-school students and falls in love with Alaska Young, the razor-sharp, self-destructive nucleus of the group. When tragedy strikes, Pudge discovers the value of unconditional love. Speak

Whenever she faces disappointment with a boy, 15-year-old Fiona Delmar buys herself a new fish. Now that Fiona is convinced she's met "The One," will she finally find true love--or is it time to buy a bigger tank.

CCBC Choices - 1997
Annette Curtis Klause does for werewolves what Ann Rice has done for vampires in this tale of supernatural suspense. Sixteen-year-old Vivian Gandillon is trying to fit in to her new home in the suburbs, which isn't easy since she and her family are werewolves. When she falls in love with a human, she must sort out her loyalties.

The acclaimed author of "Johnny Voodoo" tells a passionate, allegorical tale of a teen girl who turns her fixation on a rock singer into an empowering journey of self-discovery.

CCBC Choices - 2004
2004 ALA Young Adult Top Ten Selection
Boy Meets Boy is a romantic comedy starring two boys.

Twenty years ago Robin McKinley enthralled readers with the power of "Beauty". Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist retells the story of Beauty and the Beast but in a totally new way, with fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight. A compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.

2008 Grand Canyon Reader Award- Teen Winner
2007 Gateway Readers Award Winner
2007 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Winner
2006 ALA Young Adult Top Ten Selection
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Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. When she meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen--a vampire--her life takes a thrilling and terrifying romantic turn.

A unique, often tongue-in-cheek, 'real life' romance written from a high school senior's point of view. Louise Plummer's previous novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith, The 5 is Silent was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Includes honest humorous revisions and selections from The Romance Writer's Phrase Book.

"You step outside, you stay outside. It won't go both ways."

CCBC Choices - 2002
This groundbreaking novel tackles teen sexuality head on. Nicola Lancaster spends a summer at a program for gifted youths who live like college students for eight weeks. During that time, Nic becomes friends with beautiful blonde Battle Hall Davies. She's everything that Nic isn't, but startlingly, the two soon become more than friends.

2003 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen
Iowa Teen Award - 2003 Winner
CCBC Choices - 2001
YHBA Winner - 2003
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. Young Adult.

From the acclaimed author of the Friendship Ring series comes the story of a girl who finds herself falling for a boy who is off-limits. Her mother and his father are dating, and her best friend is in love with him.

In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen--terrified, but intrigued--is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess.

2000-2001 Viginia Readers' Choice - High
Jacqueline Woodson - 2006 Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner
CCBC Choices - 1998
Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eves lock and after that they know they fit together -- even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way.