Are you in love with love? If you want to be swept away by modern day romances, than pick up one of these books. You will be laughing, sighing, and crying all at the same time. No ghosts, werewolves, or vampires in these books though, just mortal girls and guys.
Recommended for grades 8-12.
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By Gwendolyn Heasley.
When sixteen-year-old Corinne Corcoran's father loses his job, she is forced to give up her privileged Manhattan lifestyle and move to Broken Spoke, Texas, where she discovers that life is more than shopping sprees and country clubs.
By by Sarah Ockler.
While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.
By Varian 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?"--P. [4] of cover.
By by Jody Gehrman.
Natalie, a seventeen-year-old former drama club member who now writes a relationship column for her school newspaper, decides to go undercover as a student at an all-boys boarding school so that she can figure out what guys are really like.
By Christina Mandelski.
Fifteen-year-old Sheridan, a master cake-decorator like her mother, loves her small Michigan town so when her father announces they will move to New York City, where his dream of hosting a cooking show will come true, Sheridan fears for her budding romance and becomes desperate to contact her long-absent mother.
By Sarah 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.
By Simone Elkeles.
Perfect Chemistry is the first in the series.
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.
By story & art by Yuu Watase ; [English adaptation, Lance Caselman ; translation, Lillian Olson ; touch-up art & lettering, Freeman Wong].
Shy Riiko has been rejected too many times by cute guys, so when she's offered a free trial of a mysterious Nightly Lover, she takes it. A package appears at her door with a naked guy who wants to be her boyfriend.
