The Girlfriend Project
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| Author | Alex Bradley |
| ISBN | 0142408344 |
The first third of this book was amazing. I thought, "I have found another brilliant YA author who is HILARIOUS that I can now Google relentlessly and stalk online!" Really, the beginning of the book was hysterical. I was laughing out loud at least once per page.
Then the book got a lot more laborious...
| Author | Sheree Fitch |
| ISBN | 0385665903 |
"Murderer. It's one kick in the belly of a word isn't it? Has a taste, too. It tastes like barbed wire and has wild hyena eyes. Murderer. Murder-her. Did he? Did I? That's when I remember what I want to forget."
Jake Upshore has loved Skye Derucci since before he can remember. Volatile, complex...
| Author | Lisa Papademetriou |
| ISBN | 0786851708 |
Allie Kimball is excited to be starting sixth grade. Her best friend is going to be in the same school and she is going to try out for the soccer team. But she soon learns that middle school is a very different world, full of strange new beasts, like glommers--girls who never go anywhere alone--and norks-a...
| Author | Michael Cart |
| ISBN | 0689832036 |
"More than thirty years ago a pioneering young adult librarian named Margaret A. Edwards protested that 'many adults seem to think that if sex is not mentioned to adolescents, it will go away.' "As succeeding decades have demonstrated, silence is no arbiter of behavior. Not only has sex not gone away,...
| Author | Wendy Nelson Tokunaga |
| ISBN | 0312372663 |
Stuck. That's how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels, with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms which just might be the first real clue to the identity of the father she never knew. Impulsively,...
| Author | Christopher Krovatin |
| ISBN | 0439743990 |
If Nick Hornby had a metalhead little brother, he'd write a book as clever, music-drenched, and observationally direct as this, Christopher Krovatin's rock-solid PUSH debut, now in paperback.
Boy listens to lots of loud music and hangs with his friends. Boy meets girl. Boy falls dippy-happy-scared-as-hell...
| Author | Mariah Fredericks |
| ISBN | 0689876556 |
What if, for once, the losers won out against the über-cools? GeekGirl gets GreekGod? It'd turn the school upside down.
But that's what Zoe's World, a website that Eberly's eighth-grade girls check out daily, is suggesting. Only Anna, Eve, and Syd know that the cards -- the mysterious tarot deck...
| Author | Beth Ain |
| ISBN | 0763633968 |
In 1776 Paris, a feisty teenager defies her mother, her closest friend, and the aristocracy that rules her life in a compelling romantic novel of social intrigue.
Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, daughter of aristocrats, thinks of nothing but donning exquisite ball gowns and being seen...
| Author | Lara Deloza |
| ISBN | 0440237874 |
A fresh, honest look at the difficult choices and unexpected joys in a girl’s life under pressure.
Lucy Doyle is about to explode. She’s sure her name might as well be Loser because she‘s never, ever been kissed. To make matters worse, nearly all of her friends have left her behind for boys....
| Author | Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson |
| ISBN | 0440238528 |
Robin’s neighbor Frankie is like walking sex. He’s 23, hot, charming, and used to getting what he wants. When Janice, Robin’s stepmom, first meets Frankie, they lock eyes with an almost audible sizzle. Not long after, Robin discovers they’re having an affair. She is shocked, angry, curious,...
| Author | Tammar Stein |
| ISBN | 0375830235 |
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer programmer. Two college students. A grandmother and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to...
| Author | Valerie Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0374303746 |
From the moment their romance begins in eighth grade, Winifred and Bernie are individualists. They pride themselves on being different, and have each other for support through the tough years of high school. So when they consider college, they send off for the same catalogs, promising never to separate....
| Author | Sarah Miller |
| ISBN | 0312333757 |
What if you could see inside the head of the guy you love? Know his every thought? Feel his every dream and fantasy? The mystery girl who's Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn can. She tells us the intoxicating story of her beloved Gideon, an adorably clueless boy who flukes his way into New England's...
The Secret Rites of Social Butterflies
| Author | Lizabeth Zindel |
| ISBN | 0670062170 |
When does truth become gossip?
Maggie's parents have just split up, and she's moved from New Jersey to New York City with her mom. Desperate to make new friends and to distract herself from troubles at home, she falls in with a group of social butterflies at the ritzy private school she now attends....
| Author | Tia Williams |
| ISBN | 1423104064 |
What they want is fame.
All they have is drama.
Welcome to Louis B. Armstrong, New York City's most prestigious performing arts school, where the gifted, wanna-be starlets, and It Chicks are "all" on the rise. But when rehearsals give way to hot and heavy after-school sessions away from...
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| ISBN | 0670036447 |
I had thought there was a lot of freedom being a good student, being trusted, being given special privileges, but that was nothing compared to the freedom I felt now. Once people gave up on you, once people wrote you off, now that was freedom.
Max Caldwell is tired. He's tired of having a "perfect"...
| Author | Carrie Doyle Karasyov |
| ISBN | 0061153753 |
To do: —Attend photo shoot on pier at sunset. —Get invited to NYC's most exclusive parties. —Walk big star's makeup artist's assistant's dog. —Fetch dry cleaning when it arrives from Paris. There's nothing run-of-the-mill about working at Skirt, the preeminent fashion...
| Author | Aury Wallington |
| ISBN | 1595140921 |
Marit has decided: It's time to lose it. Being a virgin is getting in the way of holding on to a boyfriend. So who better to get it over with than her best guy friend, Jamie? They've known each other forever. It's pressure-free. But doing the deed changes everything. Jamie falls for Marit! Not only does he...
The Lighter Side of Life and Death
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Acclaimed YA author C. K. Kelly Martin offers a sexy, soulful story of one confused boy, two girls, and all the complications that ensue in this romantic feel-good love story that celebrates friendship, first love, first lust, and second chances.
Sixteen-year-old...
Things You Either Hate or Love
| Author | Brigid Lowry |
| ISBN | 0823420043 |
Georgia is the 15-year-old narrator of New Zealand novelist Brigid Lowry’s YA book, Things You Either Hate or Love. I was smitten with her almost as soon as she opened her mouth to announce:
I like to think of myself as a brilliant creative person, but sometimes I just feel like a sad lonely...
This summer is different. School is over for Alex Delaney, and he’s waiting for his university acceptance, only seventeen days away. The waiting is killing him. He’s not expecting much from summer. Bodysurfing, TV, but mainly waiting.
So he’s not ready for the girl who cuts past him...
The Beginner's Guide to Living
Seventeen-year-old Will is in turmoil after the sudden death of his mother. His father drifts and his old brother, Adam, stays away from home. Isolated and angry, Will begins to search for answers, using his Mum's old camera and any philosophy books he can get his hands on. Then he falls for a beautiful...
| Author | Ginger Rue |
| ISBN | 1582463239 |
One teen outcast. One powerful publicist. Together, they’ll create the hottest brand Wright Middle School has ever seen.
New-girl Emily Wood is in big trouble: she’s accidentally crossed the alpha-clique she calls “The Daisies,” and now she’s the target of such social mudslinging...
When Victoria A. Treemont, the most revered and reclusive woman in Ardsmore, Pennsylvania, passes away, she leaves behind a $160,000 scholarship fund that rocks the worlds of the students at Ardsmore High School.
The successful candidate must "exemplify purity of soul, spirit, and body."...
The Fake Boyfriend Experiment
Rafe Turner has a tattoo running from his wrist to his shoulder. His hair is a little too long. He doesn't need to rebel, because owning his life is already in his blood. He's way out of her league, for sure, but when Lily Gardner accidentally face plants through the window of his band's practice room, a connection...
