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Eileen Cook
YF COO
In the final weeks of eighth grade, Lauren Wood made a choice. She betrayed her best friend, Helen, in a manner so publicly humiliating that Helen had to move to a new town just to save face. Ditching Helen was worth it, though, because Lauren started high school as one of the It Girls--and now, at the start of her senior year, she's the cheerleading captain, the quarterback's girlfriend, and the undisputed queen bee. Lauren has everything she's ever wanted, and she has forgotten all about her ex-best friend. But Helen could never forget Lauren. After three years of obsessing, she's moving back to her old town. She has a new name and a new look, but she hasn't dropped her old grudges. She has a detailed plan to bring down her former BFF by taking away everything that's ever been important to Lauren--starting with her boyfriend.


Robin Benway
YF BEN
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.


Carolyn Mackler
YF MAC
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.


Sarah Ockler
YF OCK
While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.


Jenny Han
YF HAN
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

 

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Recommended nonfiction

Francesca Lia Block
Y 821 BLO






Lisi Harrison
Y 813 HAR
Contains the Clique's best comebacks, favorite expressions, and silliest secrets. --P. [4] of cover.


Olivia Gardner
Y 302.3 GAR
Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and Sarah Buder. The girls were so moved by Olivia's story that they initiated a letter-writing campaign to help lift her spirits. It was a tender gesture of solidarity that set off an overwhelming chain reaction of support, encouragement, and love. In Letters to a Bullied Girl, Olivia and the Buder sisters share an inspiring selection of messages that arrived from across America-the personal, often painful remembrances of former targets, remorseful bullies, and sympathetic bystanders. Letters to a Bullied Girl examines our national bullying epidemic from a variety of angles and perspectives, and includes practical guidance from bullying expert Barbara Coloroso, author of The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander. Though addressed to Olivia, the letters speak to all young people who have been bullied, offer advice and hope to those who suffer, and provide a wake-up call to all who have ever been involved in bullying.


Kay Allenbaugh
Y305.235 ALL
A collection of real-life stories written by teenage girls and women relating their dreams concerning such things as love, friendship, and recognition of their talents, and how they make dreams and wishes come true.


Rebecca Sparrow
Y 646.7 SPA
Packed with common sense tools to get through those tricky teenage years. The little black book of information that every teenage girl should read. Everybody knows high school can be tough....so how do you get through it? --Publisher's description.
 

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Recommended graphic novels

Steve Vance
YGN VAN
It's not easy being the new girl in school – especially when everyone else has super-powers. Lauren is new to the mall-and-beach town of San Narciso, CA. Should she hang with the super-powered popular girls? What mystery lies behind the school's walls? And most importantly, what to wear? --Publisher's description.


Holly Black
YGN BLA
Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see.


Gail Simone
YGN SIM
Accompanied by a team of mythic warriors, Diana fights a growing bloodlust while bound to a plane where her Amazonian strength and nobility are diminished. But even if she can complete this harsh sojourn fraught with questionable alliances, she still stands to lose her next most precious possessions: home and love.--From back cover.


Jeph Loeb
YGN LOE
Batman has discovered something strange on the bottom of Gotham Bay, which leads him to a mysterious and powerful teenage girl who is bent on destroying Gotham City. Soon she'll capture the attention of Superman, Wonder Woman and even Darkseid and his Female Furies. What is her connection to Superman? Why does Wonder Woman want to hide her from the outside world? How will Darkseid succeed in recruiting her into doing his bidding? Who is she, and whose side will she end up on?


Cecil Castellucci
YGN CAS
When Jane moves to the suburbs, she thinks her life is over, but she meets three friends who form a club P.L.A.I.N.E. - People Loving Art in Neighbourhoods. But can art really save a group of misfits from high school?

 

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Top 5 staff picks

Diane Schwemm
YF SCH
Presents the stories of the four Walker sisters--Rose, Daisy, Laurel, and Lily--as they work through their own difficulties with relationships, adolescence, and identity, and they each, in turn, approach their sixteenth birthdays.


Sherri L Smith
YF SMI
Like her father, all Ida Mae Jones wants to be is a pilot, but in 1940s Louisiana, being black and being a woman are two strikes against her. When the United States enters World War II, Ida, with her light-coloured skin, manages to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. But she soon realizes that a new name and a uniform can't hide who you really are inside.


Kevin Brooks
YF BRO
Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn't fit in and she couldn't care less. Dawn has other things on her mind. Her dad disappeared two years ago and it's all God's fault. When Dawn's dad found God, it was the worst time ever. He thought he'd found the answer to everything. But that wasn't the end of it. --Back cover.


Kimberly Derting
YF DER
High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target.


Anna Jarzab
YF JAR
After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, northern California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder.


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