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True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
Synopsis: Teen movie star Morgan Carter retreats to a small midwestern town to recuperate anonymously after a near fatal overdose outside LA's Viper Room, recording her thoughts in a diary.
Publication Date: 11/03/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Pretties
Scott Westerfeld
Synopsis: Having been transformed into a pretty girl after making promises while living in her ugly life, Tally is a happy girl with new friends and a positive outlook, but when the past comes calling, Tally doesn't want to live up to her obligations and now must fight to keep the life she loves without making the sacrifices expected by others. By the author of Uglies.
Publication Date: 11/01/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude
Synopsis: When she breaks up with her boyfriend, a popular skater named C.J. Logan, Kelsey discovers that he doesn't take rejection well when he begins spreading rumors about her, which forces her to salvage her reputation and reinvent herself as a reporter for the school's newspaper.
Publication Date: 10/20/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
M or F
Chris Tebbetts, Lisa Papademetriou
Synopsis: When Marcus, her best friend who is gay, encourages her to talk online to Jeffrey, the boy on whom she has a crush, Frannie asks for his help, and as Marcus begins chatting with Jeffrey, he discovers that Jeffrey is falling for him, not Frannie.
Publication Date: 10/06/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Totally Joe
James Howe
Synopsis: Meet Joe Bunch. Lovable misfit and celebrity wannabe from Paintbrush Falls, New York. Like his longtime best friends Addie, Skeezie, and Bobby, Joe's been called names all his life. So when he's given the assignment to write his alphabiography -- the story of his life from A to Z -- Joe has his doubts. This whole thing could be serious ammunition for bullying if it falls into the wrong hands.
But Joe discovers there's more to the assignment -- and his life -- than meets the eye. Especially when he gets to the letter C, which stands for Colin Briggs, the coolest guy in the seventh grade (seriously) -- and Joe's secret boyfriend.
By the time Joe gets to the letter Z, he's pretty much bared his soul about everything. And Joe's okay with that because he likes who he is. He's Totally Joe, and that's the best thing for him to be.
Here is an exuberant, funny, totally original story of one boy's coming out -- and coming-of-age.
Publication Date: 10/01/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
The Queen of Second Place
Laura Peyton Roberts
Synopsis: No matter how hard she tries, Cassie is always second best—in school, in life, and especially in love. And lately, Sterling Carter is always one pedicured step ahead of her. Cassie is used to it. Mostly. The problem is, right now she and Sterling both want Kevin Matthews. He’s only the hottest new student ever to grace their high school halls. And for the record, Cassie saw him first. But, naturally, Sterling wants him. So Cassie might as well just give up now.

Except who says Cassie can’t have an equal chance too? Just because she’s been in second place all her life doesn’t mean things can’t change. . . .
Publication Date: 09/13/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Confessions of a Boyfriend Stealer
Synopsis: MESSAGE BOARD
About Genesis Bell Queensheba at 1:02 a.m.
i’ve heard you’d better not leave your guy alone with her! not if you DON’T want to lose him >:p
It’s not her fault 007ugo at 1:45 a.m.
You got it all wrong! If anyone’s taught Genesis about stealing guys, it was her best friends, The Terribles–CJ and Tasha!
Re: It’s not her fault GenBell at 1:52 a.m.
You don’t know the real story. It’s not what you think. Just read my side of it, and then decide. Okay?
Publication Date: 09/13/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Spain or Shine
Michelle Jellen
Synopsis: Elena is lost in the shuffle between her three overachieving siblings. But now that she’s on her own for a whole semester, she intends to keep the spotlight on herself—and Spain is just the place to do it. Once she starts living it up in tapas bars, lying out on the beach (even though it’s November), and having a nice, long siesta smack-dab in the middle of every day, Elena finds that Spain is everything she hoped it would be. She’s even met a to-fawn-over Spaniard, Miguel. But Elena has always been more comfortable writing plays than starring in them, and she’s beginning to realize that keeping out of the spotlight has its perks too. . . .
Publication Date: 09/08/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
13 Little Blue Envelopes
Maureen Johnson
Synopsis:

When Ginny receives thirteen little blue envelopes and instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn't know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them in this funny, romantic, heartbreaking novel.

Publication Date: 08/23/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Ready or Not : An All-American Girl Novel
Synopsis:

Top ten things Samantha Madison isn't ready for:

10. Spending Thanksgiving at Camp David

9. With her boyfriend, the president's son

8. Who appears to want to take their relationship to the Next Level

7. Which Sam inadvertently and shockingly announces live on MTV

6. While appearing to support the president's dubious policies on families, morals, and yes, sex

5. Juggling her new after-school job at Potomac Video

4. Even though she already has a job as teen ambassador to the UN (that she doesn't get paid for)

3. Riding the Metro and getting accosted because she's "the redheaded girl who saved the president's life," in spite of her new, semipermanent Midnight Ebony tresses

2. Experiencing total role reversal with her popular sister Lucy, who for once can't get the guy she wants and the number-one thing Sam isn't ready for?

1. Finding out the hard way that in art class, "life drawing" means "naked people."

Publication Date: 08/01/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Confessions of a Teen Nanny
Victoria Ashton
Synopsis:

Sixteen-year-old Adrienne Lewis is in charge of eight-year-old Emma Warner, the youngest member of the snooty Warner family. Emma is an evil genius who has gotten all five previous nannies fired -- and she's the good news. Because then there's Emma's half brother, Graydon, who goes to college -- yet always seems to be lurking around waiting to hit on Adrienne. But worst of all is Emma's beautiful seventeen-year-old half sister, Cameron, whose reputation as a wild girl, a liar, and a user is known to everyone . . . everyone, that is, except Adrienne.

Publication Date: 07/05/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Peaches
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Synopsis:

The New York Times bestselling debut novel from critically acclaimed author Jodi Lynn Anderson follows three very different girls as they discover the secret to finding the right boy, making the truest of friends, and picking the perfect Georgia peach.

Murphy McGowen has bright green eyes, a reputation as the wildest girl in Bridgewater, and a way of getting out of all the trouble she gets into. But when she's caught stealing from the Darlington Orchard, she's forced to repay her debt picking peaches in the hot Georgia sun.

Leeda Cawley-Smith has professionally whitened teeth and the softest skin her boyfriend has ever touched. Unfortunately, Leeda's parents aren't too keen on her being touched anymore. Now Leeda's country-club summer is out the window—she'll be getting a serious sock tan working at her uncle's peach orchard instead.

Birdie Darlington used to dance around her family's orchard picking peaches for fun. But now that her parents are getting divorced, Birdie would rather spend the summer in the A/C eating Thin Mints than pick another peach—too bad she doesn't have a choice.

Thrown together at Darlington Orchard, Murphy, Leeda, and Birdie discover what it means to find a real soul mate, and that sometimes cute boys know a lot about peach cider. And, of course, they learn the trick to picking a perfect peach. One thing's for sure—it's going to be a juicy summer.

Publication Date: 06/07/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Sugar Rush
Julie Burchill
Synopsis:

"Oh, I,m not your friend." My savior looked surprised. "It's just that this is MY school. I'm Maria Sweet -- Sugar. If you get bullied, it'll be when I say so."

When Kim has to transfer from her posh school to Ravendene Comprehensive, the notoriously violent local school, she's scared -- but then she meets Maria Sweet, better known as Sugar. Sugar is beautiful and wild, the queen bee of Ravendene, and Kim falls under her spell.

They're gorgeous party girls, envied and admired by everyone. But as Kim leaves her good-girl past far behind, she realizes she's falling in love -- with her best friend.

Funny, sexy, and provocative, this is a compulsively readable first novel for young adults by Britain's most famous and controversial journalist.

Publication Date: 05/24/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Girls Dinner Club
Jessie Elliot
Synopsis:

The love of Junie's life for the past year is suddenly acting like a crazed puppy.

Celia's dad has found the most ridiculous woman in all of Manhattan—and decided, after fifteen years of being single, to date her.

Danielle's hot-guy-in-a-band ex-boyfriend is trying to convince her that he's "changed."

Sometimes living life is a recipe for disaster.

Sometimes, girls just have to make their own recipes.

Publication Date: 05/24/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Alice On Her Way
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Synopsis: Excited about her sixteenth birthday, finally being able to drive, and kissing her boyfriend without braces, Alice feels like she will be practically an adult in a matter of months, yet when she is forced to attend a class on sexuality at the local church by her father, Alice comes to realize that being an adult isn’t actually based on a driver’s license.
Publication Date: 05/17/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
The Center of the World
Alisa Jaffa, Andreas Steinhofel
Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Phil has felt like an outsider as long as he can remember. All Phil has ever known about his father is that he was Number Three on his mother’s long list—third in a series of affairs that have set Phil’s family even further apart from the critical townspeople across the river. As for his own sexuality, Phil doesn’t care what the neighbors will think; he’s just waiting for the right guy to come along.

But Phil can’t remain a bystander forever. Not when he’s surrounded by his mother, Glass, who lives by her own rules and urges Phil to be equally strong; his sister, Dianne, who is abrupt and willful, with secrets to share; his uncle Gable, a restless mariner, defined by his scars; his best friend, Kat, who is generous but possessive. And finally, there is distant Nicholas, with whom Phil falls overwhelmingly in love—until he faces the ultimate betrayal and must finally find his worth . . . and place in the world.
Publication Date: 05/10/05
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance

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