ROMANCE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Achingly Alice Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Alice sets long- and short-term priorities for her life as she experiences the complexities of young love. (Many other Alice titles.)
Blood and Chocolate (M) Klause, Annette Curtis
Summary: Having fallen in love with a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must decide where she belongs.
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III:More Stories of Life, Love and Learning Canfield, Jack
Summary: Inspirational stories for teenagers about love, friendship, tough times and growing up.
For the Love of Venice Napoli, Donna Jo
Summary: Spending the summer in Venice with his family turns confusing for Percy when he meets a beautiful, politically radical Venetian girl who wants him to help sabotage his father’s engineering project in order to drive tourists out of the city.
Forbidden Cooney, Caroline
Summary: Daniel and Annabel have fallen in love, however, there is a terrible dark secret between their families which may drive them apart. (Also: Saturday Night and Both Sides of Time Series)
Gentlehands Kerr, M. E.
Summary: A teenage boy falls in love with an “upper-class” girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.
The Haunted Heart Bennett, Cherie
Summary: Gina and her family move into a new house which is haunted. A competition begins between the resident ghost and the landlord’s son, over Gina.
Kissing Tennessee and Other Stories From the Stardust Dance Appelt, Kathi
Summary: A group of graduating 8th graders share their stories of love and heartbreak.
Lily: A Novel (M) Bonner, Cindy
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Lily DeLony tells her version of the events of Christmas Eve night 1883, when a vigilante group of citizens – including her father – struck against a gang of outlaws, one of whom was the love of her life .
Love Story Segal, Erich
Summary: Tragedy strikes the lives of a young married couple from vastly different backgrounds.
My Heartbeat (M) Weyr, Garret
Summary: As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.
The Notebook Sparks, Nicholas
Summary: Noah Calhoun, recently returned from World War II in 1946, buys an old plantation home in rural North Carolina, where he contents himself with memories of his first love, a girl he met fourteen years earlier, but then she unexpectedly arrives at his door.
Owl in Love Kindl, Patrice
Summary: A fourteen-year-old girl, who can transform into an owl, has a crush on her science teacher which leads her into interesting new relationships with both humans and owls.
Princess in Love Cabot, Meg
Summary: In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
The Raging Quiet (M) Jordan, Sherryl
Summary: Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.
Scribbler of Dreams Pearson, Mary E.
Summary: Despite her family’s long feud with the Crutchfields, seventeen-year-old Kaitlin falls in love with Bram Crutchfield and weaves a tangled web of deception to conceal her identity from him.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (M) Brashares, Ann
Summary: Over the summer, four friends share a second-hand pair of jeans through happiness, and all the complication of growing up.
Stargirl Spinelli, Jerry
Summary: A story of first love, popularity and courage.
This Lullaby: a novel Dessen, Sarah
Summary: Raised by a mother who’s had five husband, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
Thwonk Bauer, Joan
Summary: A.J. has her very own cupid and now has the power to make the most popular boy in school fall in love with her.
A Walk to Remember Sparks, Nicholas
Summary: A twist of fate couples Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan for the homecoming dance at school and changes their lives forever.
The Wedding Sparks, Nicholas
Summary: Wilson Lewis must make his wife of thirty years fall in love with him again to preserve their marriage.
Zel (M) Napoli, Donna Jo
Summary: Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delve into the psychological motivations of the characters.
(M) For Mature Readers
Revised 11/06