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Chick Lit for Teens booklist
Bauer, Joan-
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
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Blume, Judy -
Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
Brian, Kate-
On the night of her sweet sixteen birthday party, self-centered snob Teagan Phillips receives a visit from a special person who tries to convince the teenager to change the way she lives her life.
Godbersen, Anna-
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.
Goldschimdt, Judy-
In a weblog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her more frequent humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school.
Goldwasser, Amy, (ed.)-
Fifty-eight girls-- ages thirteen to nineteen, from across the spectrum of geographic, socioeconomic, racial, and religious upbringings-- share 'heartbreaking, hilarious, and often harrowing' (Francine Prose) essays about everything from politics to pop culture; from post-Katrina New Orleans to Johnny Depp; from the loneliness of losing a best friend to the loathing or pride they feel about their bodies. The authors of Red are brave and honest documentarians of their own lives. These girls are the best shades of red (not pink): a little bit angry, a lot passionate. They're on fire, and their essays speak gloriously for the future.
Griffin, Adele-
Stuck babysitting during the summer while her friends take glamorous vacations, fourteen-year-old Irene learns some lessons about life after meeting a beautiful, yet troubled girl.
Johnson, Maureen-
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook.
Larbalestier, Justine-
In a world in which everyone has a personal fairy who tends to one aspect of daily life, fourteen-year-old Charlie decides she does not want hers--a parking fairy--and embarks on a series of misadventures designed to rid herself of the invisible spirit and replace it with a better one, like her friend Rochelle's shopping fairy.
Lenhard, Elizabeth-
For Scottie, Amanda, Bella, and Tay, life in Chicago is all about seeking shelter. They've found it in the raggedy comfort of KnitWit, in their firelit stitch 'n bitch at Joe's, in the halls of their quirky private school, even in the arms of boyfriends. But now the girls are staring down the end of high school. Fueled by the stresses of college applications and service projects, will it also mean the end of the Chicks? Or can this unlikely foursome bind off the happy ending that only true friendship can craft?
Lockhart, E.-
When Gretchen Yee, a student at the Manhattan School for Art and Music, wishes she were a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room, she never expects her wish to come true in such a dramatic way.
Maude, Rachel-
Four prep school girls clash when they try to form their own fashion label for a school assignment, but they ultimately discover that their differences make for surprisingly creative results.
Millner, Denene-
Living a privileged life in Atlanta, wealthy and beautiful African American twin sisters, Sydney and Lauren, must deal with family secrets and scandal when their father is released from prison.
Mackler, Carolyn-
Sometimes it takes getting hit with a hockey puck to help you see what's good for you!
Mechling, Lauren and Moser, Laura-
Too preoccupied with family problems to think much about her new life, Mimi's first hour at The Baldwin School in New York City, an institution where teachers offer psychoanalysis in lieu of grades and students hold cocktail parties in the bathroom between classes, leaves her spinning. Rubbing shoulders with the offspring of diplomats and celebrities, Mimi finds herself going from one bizarre situation to the next, at risk of losing her sense of self and hurting the people she has come to love.
Gilbert, Catherine-
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Reinhardt, Dana-
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.
Serros, Michele-
Mexican-American Evie Gomez feels caught in the middle when one of her two best friends returns from living in Mexico City and appears to have gone ""Sangro"" (short for sangrona, i.e., bitch).
Vivian, Siobhan-
When Ruby's divorced father shows up unexpectedly on her sixteenth birthday, the week that follows is full of confusing surprises, including discovering that her best friend has been keeping secrets from her, her mother has not been truthful about the past, and life is often complicated.
Zevin, Gabrielle-
After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.
- The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
- The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
- LBD by Grace Dent
- The Clique by Lisi Harrison
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Calypso Chronicles (Pulling Princes, etc.) by Tyne O'Connell
- Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson (Angus, Thongs, And Full-Frontal Snogging, etc.) by Louise Rennison
- Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar