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6th Grade
- Cloudy with a Chance of Boys byISBN: 0763646156Stevie doesn’t know much about boys, and that’s always been just fine with her. But lately, things have been changing: kids at school are starting to pair up, and Owen, the new boy in her Earth Science class, seems to have his sights set on Stevie.
- Ella Enchanted byISBN: 0060558865At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do.
- Fairest byISBN: 0060734108A magic mirror, a charming prince, a jealous queen, palace intrigue, and an injured king twine into a maze that Aza must penetrate to save herself and her beloved kingdom.
- Maggie Bean Stays Afloat byISBN: 1416933476She was no longer the boring girl who hid in her bedroom eating mounds of chocolate every night. She was the new and improved Maggie Bean, and she was going to do her best to convince Peter Applewood that she was the girl for him.
- The Cupid Chronicles byISBN: 9781416954842When the library in Bramble, Cape Cod, announces it's in danger of closing, the town residents have got to raise BIG money and FAST. Thirteen-year-old Willa must put her crush on Joey Kennelly on the back burner to save the library, but the question is, How?
- The Luckiest Girl byISBN: 0060532998Shelly fells as if she's living in a fantasyland. She's spending the school year in southern California, where flowers bloom in November, oranges grow on trees, and lawns are mowed in winter. When the star of the basketball team smiles at her, Shelly feels as if she's been touch by magic. Now she's about to discover the magic.
- The Trouble with Cupid byISBN: 9781554550593When a dog food company announces a competition for the "new face of Cheesebarkers" TV ad campaign, a school committee forms to find a school mascot and train it so they can win the prize money for the school. And Zach Cameron is on the committee. What better place to show off her talents as a dog trainer and impress Zach?
7th Grade
- False Princess byISBN: 1606840797Princess, Nalia's led a privileged life at court. But everything changes when it's revealed, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has been hidden away for her protection. Cast out with little more than the clothes on her back, the girl now called Sinda must leave behind the city of Vivaskari, her best friend, Keirnan, and the only life she's ever known
- Pardon My French byISBN: 0142404594Nicole dreams of spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend Nate. So when she finds herself on her way to Paris to study abroad without him, she's less than thrilled. But, Nicole might find Paris as sweet as a café au lait after all.
- Parties & Potions byISBN: 9780385736459Rachel is on top of the world with her wonderful, handsome and super-nice boyfriend Raf Kosravi. In fact, Rachel expects that her sophomore year, which is just beginning, will be utterly fabulous. However, things begin to go a bit awry.
- Princess In Love byISBN: 0064472809Mia has to endure daily princess lessons from her critical Grandmère, but her new stepfather is her algebra teacher, her mother is pregnant and vomiting, she doesn't like her boyfriend very much, and she's convinced the real love of her life--her best friend's older brother--thinks of her as a kid.
8th Grade
- Back When You Were Easier to Love byISBN: 9780525421993What's worse than getting dumped? Not even knowing if you've been dumped. Joy needs closure almost as much as she needs Zan, so she heads for California, and Zan, riding shotgun beside Zan's former-best-friend Noah.
- Beastly byISBN: 0061963283Privileged, popular, and proud, high school student Kyle Kingsbury knows he can get away with virtually anything because of his good looks and his father's money. But Kyle goes too far when he sets out to humiliate a mysterious and unpopular girl at the school dance.
- Hourglass byISBN: 1606841440Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks byISBN: 0786838191In the summer between her freshman and sophomore years, Frankie transforms from “a scrawny, awkward child” with frizzy hair to a beauty girl. But beauty brings more problems that she counted on.
- The Iron King
- The Summer I Turned Pretty byISBN: 1416968296Beach house, summer love, enduring friendship. What a summer!
- Things I know About Love byISBN: 1606842145Things I know about love.
1. People don’t always tell you the truth about how they feel.
2. Nothing that happens between two people is guaranteed to be private.
3. I don’t know if you ever get over having your heart broken.
9th Grade
- All These Things I've Done byISBN: 0374302103In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
- Along for the Ride byISBN: 0142415561Auden is about to start college in the fall, and decides to escape her control-freak professor mom to spend the summer with her novelist father. She learn to ride a bike, face the emotional fallout of her parents’ divorce, distancing herself from her mother, and falling in love with Eli, a fellow insomniac bicyclist recovering from his own traumas
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone byISBN: 0316134023When beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on Karou in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
- The Big Crunch byISBN: 0545240751When June starts her junior year of high school, she isn’t looking for love. Then she literally crashes into classmate Wes, and what begins with a black eye for June and a head bump for Wes turns into a true, deep romance.
- The Luxe byISBN: 0061345687
10th Grade
- An Abundance of Katherines byISBN: 0525476881When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.
- Between Shades of Gray byISBN: 0399254129In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.
- Firelight byISBN: 0061935085When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
- LOVE off limits byISBN: 9781416975083Natalie has the perfect boyfriend, or so everyone thinks. But Natalie knows she wants more. When she discovers that more equals Matt, her boyfriend’s best friend, Natalie finds herself in quite the dilemma.
- Something Like Fate byISBN: 014241882XErin and Lani are best friends . . . and total opposites when it comes to everything, including boys. But then Erin starts dating Jason, and when Lani meets him, sparks fly. Lani is a loyal friend to Erin, but.
- Two-way Street byISBN: 1416913181This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They're even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation.
- You Against Me byISBN: 0385751605When Mikey's younger sister claims to have been raped and he seeks to avenge the crime, he meets Ellie, the sister of the accused, and falls in love with her, complicating the situation considerably for all of them.