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Peaches: A Novel
by Anderson, Jodi Lynn
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
by Brooks, Martha
A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.

Just Ask
by Carlson, Melody
Sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson learns more about herself and her friends, and practices her new commitment to God, by writing a teen advice column for the newspaper on which her father is managing editor.

Boy Proof
by Castellucci, Cecil
Feeling alienated from everyone around her, Los Angeles high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies.

Frozen Rodeo
by Clark, Catherine
High-school junior Peggy Fleming Farrell finds herself without a car, working at the Gas 'n Git, and fantasizing about a boyfriend during the hot summer her distracted parents are expecting yet another baby to join their ice-skating family.

Burning City
by Dorfman, Ariel
Sixteen-year-old Heller Highland, who is living with his grandparents while his parents are away, burns rubber across Manhattan delivering bad news by bicycle, and as a summer heat wave melts the city, he is struck by first love.

Head Games
by Fredericks, Mariah
Two teenagers connect online in a role-playing game which leads them into their own face-to-face, half-acknowledged courtship.

The Last Chance Texaco
by Hartinger, Brent
Troubled teen Lucy Pitt struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home.

Chicks with Sticks
by Lenhard, Elizabeth
Four teenage girls from very different social cliques at their progressive Chicago high school become friends after forming a knitting club. The story of Scottie, Amanda, Bella, and Tay, who are drawn together by their love of knitting, which brings about a special friendship that makes dealing with high school much easier, is interwoven with knitting terms and lore, and funky projects and patterns.

The boyfriend list : (15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver)
by Lockhart, E.
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.

Twists and Turns
by McDonald, Janet
With the help of a couple of successful friends, eighteen- and nineteen-year-old Teesha and Keeba try to capitalize on their talents by opening a hair salon in the run-down Brooklyn housing project where they live.

Rhymes with Witches
by Myracle, Lauren
High school freshman Jane believes that she would do anything to be popular until she is selected to be in the school's most exclusive clique and learns that popularity has a price.

Claws: A Novel
by Weaver, Will
Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.