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The Romantics The Beginning of Everything By Leah Konen By Robyn Schneider ROMANTIC When his first big relationship crumbles on the heels Star athlete and prom king Ezra Faulkner's life is irrepara- of his parents' painful separation, seventeen-year-old bly transformed by a tragic accident and the arrival of Gael is heartbroken until Love intervenes. eccentric new girl Cassidy Thorpe. FICTION I’ll Be There FOR Did I Mention I Love You? TEENS By Holly Goldberg Sloan By Estelle Maskame Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly Eden Munro spends the summer with her father and on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his new family in Santa Monica and quickly finds her- his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything self thrust into a world full of new experiences and changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed the more time she spends breaking the rules with by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy them, the more she finds herself falling for the one for the first time. person she should not--her stepbrother, Tyler. Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight By Jennifer E. Smith When Dimple Met Rishi Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New By Sandhya Menon York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stan- track of each other at the airport until fate brings ford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding them back together on a very momentous day. her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged mar- On the Fence riage with him. By Kasie West Sixteen-year-old Charlie has always been a tomboy, but when she accidentally becomes a makeup model, her newfound femininity draws her into an unknown social The Sky Is Everywhere world, complete with guy troubles she's never had be- By Jandy Nelson fore. In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician. Frankly In Love By David Yoon High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will My Fair Godmother leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or By Janette Rallison himself--at all. Sophomore Savannah wants to find the perfect prom date after her boyfriend breaks up with her to date her older sister, but when a godmother who is only fair becomes involved, Savannah finds herself in trou- We encourage readers to be informed about ble in the Middle Ages, along with a boy who would the titles they are reading. Commonsenseme- like to be her charming prince. dia.org is a great resource to help you decide if a book is right for you. springville library ROMANTIC FICTION FOR TEENS Two-Way Street The Other Countess Somewhere Only We Know By Lauren Barnholdt By Eve Edwards By Maurene Goo Courtney must drive across country to attend col- In the court of Queen Elizabeth I in 1582, Eleanor Teens Lucky, a very famous K-pop star, and Jack, a lege orientation with her ex-boyfriend while still fum- Hutton, an alchemist's daughter, and William Lacey, part-time paparazzo who is trying to find himself, fall ing that he dumped her for a girl he met online, but the financially ruined Earl of Dorset, fall in love just for each other against the odds through the course the two of them learn valuable lessons about them- as Will is supposed to be courting a rich and socially of one stolen day. selves and each other along the way. acceptable heiress. When It Happens Perfect Chemistry Paper Towns By Simone Elkeles By Susane Colasanti By John Green When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex High school senior Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in High school seniors Sara and Tobey attempt to figure Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, the predictable boringness of his life until the beauti- out what is important in life as they try to balance develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brit- ful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neigh- their preparations for their futures with their enjoy- tany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must bor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adven- ment of the present . face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and oth- ture and then disappears. ers. What I Thought Was True Catching Jordan Alex & Eliza: A Love Story By Huntley Fitzpatrick By Miranda Kenneally By Melissa De la Cruz 17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl deter- What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous Before the world knew them as Alexander Hamilton mined to escape her small island town, but when rich jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn't just and Elizabeth Schuyler, young Alex and Eliza fell in -kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated surrounded by hot guys, though. She leads them as love amidst the turmoil of the American Revolution. romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess the captain and quarterback of her high school foot- her feelings about her loving, complex family, her ball team. They all see her as one of the guys, and lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place that's just fine. As long as she gets her athletic schol- The Truth About Forever she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves. arship to a powerhouse university. But now there's a new guy in town who threatens her starting position, By Sarah Dessen suddenly she's hoping he'll see her as more than just The summer following her father's death, Macy plans Beastly a teammate. to work at the library and wait for her brainy boy- By Alex Flinn friend to return from camp, but instead she goes to A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from Ophelia work at a catering business where she makes new the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan pri- By Lisa Klein friends and finally faces her grief. vate school student who is turned into a monster and In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia must find true love before he can return to his human tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for form. whom they can trust. Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Endless Summer Beautiful Creatures Denmark. By Jennifer Echols By Kami Garcia My Most Excellent Year Lori can't deny she has a crush on Sean, but when he In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little By Steve Kluger starts paying attention to her she wonders if her has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old friendship with his brother, Adam, is more important Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate Best friends and unofficial brothers since they were than being his girlfriend. with whom he shares a psychic connection and six, ninth-graders T.C. and Augie have got the world whose family hides a dark secret that may be re- figured out. But that all changes when both friends vealed on her sixteenth birthday. fall in love for the first time. Enter Alé. .