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	Bradley, Alex. 24 girls in 7 days. Jack Grammar's best friends post an ad for him in the school newspaper -- an ad for a prom date. Jack has just seven days to meet and date them before he will ask one special girl to the prom.
	Cabot, Meg. Pants on fire. Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
	Dessen, Sarah. This lullaby. Remy, a master at getting rid of boyfriends before any emotional attachments form, finds herself strangely unwilling to free herself from Dexter, a messy, disorganized, impulsive musician who she suspects she has come to love.
	Draper, Sharon M. Romiette and Julio. Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
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	Flake, Sharon, editor. Who am I without him? : short stories about girls and the boys in their lives. Ten short stories about African American teenage girls' relationships with boys.
	Korman, Gordon.Son of the mob. Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.
	Levithan, David. Boy meets boy. This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other. Cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl, and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance.
	McNeal, Laura and McNeal, Tom. Crooked. Two ninth graders, Clara and Amos, suddenly find their lives turned upside down by their families, by each other, and by the two meanest brothers in town.
	Meyer, Stephanie. Twilight. When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. Read the whole Twilight saga.
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	Shaw, Tucker. Flavor of the week. Cyril, an overweight boy who is good friends with Rose but wishes he could be more, helps his best friend Nick woo her with culinary masterpieces which Cyril himself secretly creates. Includes recipes from the story.
	Shulman, Polly. Enthusiasm. Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.
	Sones, Sonya. What my mother doesn't know. Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right.
	Wittlinger, Ellen. Heart on my sleeve. From the end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their families and friendships and explore their feelings for each other through emails, letters, and a visit.

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Love me not

	Anderson, M.T. Feed. In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
	Jones, Patrick. Things change. Sixteen-year-old Johanna, one of the best students in her class, develops a passionate attachment for troubled seventeen-year-old Paul and finds her plans for the future changing in unexpected ways.
	Lockhart, E. The boyfriend list. A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.
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	Lyga, Barry. The astonishing adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
	Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl. 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.
	Vizzini, Ned. Be more chill. Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
	Woodson, Jacqueline. If you come softly. After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with peoples' reactions.

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