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Recommended fiction

 The secret year
Jennifer R Hubbard
YF HUB
Reading the journal of the high-society girl he was secretly involved with for a year helps high school senior Colt cope with her death and come closer to understanding why she needed him while continuing to be the girlfriend of a wealthy classmate.

Dyan Sheldon
YF SHE
Gracie and Savannah are best friends - despite being totally different. Together they make a great if surprising team and it seems like nothing could come between them - but over a long summer Gracie begins to question Savannah's reliance on lies and manipulation to get her own way and wonder whether her friend is quite as confident as she seems.

Stephen Emond
YF EMO
After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself.


Coert Voorhees
YF VOO
Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.

Julie Halpern
YF HAL
When high school sophomore Jessie's long-term best friend transforms herself into a punk and goes after Jessie's would-be boyfriend, Jessie decides to visit the wild nerd yonder and seek true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons.
 

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Recommended nonfiction

Dizzy in your eyes : poems about love

Pat Mora
Y 811 MOR




Clea Hantman
Y 158.2 HAN
A day-by-day guide provides thirty days of activities, break-up songs, and advice for teenage girls to help them transition from a depressed, in-denial dumpee to an in-control, ready-for-romance single gal.

Bonnie Burton
Y 302.3 BUR
This guide for teenage girls explains why girls can sometimes be mean to each other, what to do if you are a victim of bullying, and the importance of treating other girls with respect.

Hayley DiMarco
Y 248.833 DIM
Is your friend your BFF one day and your worst enemy the next? ... If you're dealing with a frenemy, you need to know when it's time to work through the relationship and when it's time to cut her loose and find some new friends. --Publisher's description.

Julia Baskin
Y 305.235 BAS
Four teens recount the course of their friendship during their attendance at one of New York City's most prestigious public high schools, from their horrified witness to the September 11 attacks outside their classroom window, to their efforts to juggle demanding schedules and social pressures, to their shared participation in a group journal.
 
 

Recommended graphic novels

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?

1963- Gipi
YGN GIP
Four troubled boys, Guiliano, Stefano, Alberto, and Alex, form a band. They practice in a garage that Guilano's dad loaned them. When their amp blows right before the deadline for their demo tape, the boys become desperate to replace it and land themselves in more trouble than they know how to handle.

Richard Appignanesi
YGN APP
In this popular Shakespearean comedy of society and romance, readers find two couples falling in love despite the scheming of the embittered Don John and the comic incompetence of Dogberry. This romantic comedy is one of Shakespeare's most enduring and exhilarating plays, featuring the romantic leads, Claudio and Hero, and their comic counterparts, Benedick and Beatrice. Unlike Vieceli's critically acclaimed Hamlet, which was set in a futuristic cyberworld, Much Ado About Nothing is set between 1815-1871 during Il Risorgimento (Italian Unification).

Daniel Way
YGN WAY
Having finally seen his face, Wolverine sets out to rescue his son from the grasp of the shadow society that once enslaved him. But Logan's son doesn't want to be saved - he wants revenge against Logan, the father who abandoned him.
 
 

Top 5 staff picks

Johanna (Johanna Beth) Knowles
YF KNO
Tells, from four points of view, the ramifications of a pregnancy resulting from a one-time thing between Ellie, who feels loved when boys touch her, and Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life.

Julia Hoban
YF HOB
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.

Micol Ostow
YF OST
Four suburban New Jersey students from the Leo R. Gittleman Jewish Day School form a rock band that becomes inexplicably popular, creating exhiliration, friction, confrontation, and soul-searching among its members.

Lisa Schroeder
YF SCH
As teenagers Brooklyn and Nico work to help each other recover from the deaths of Brooklyn's boyfriend--Nico's brother Lucca--and their friend Gabe, the two begin to rediscover their passion for life, and a newly blossoming passion for one another.

K. L. (Kelly L.) Going
YF GOI
After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay glam-rocker uncle.
 

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