Chick-Lit Books
| YA-PAP ANDERSON |
CatalystKate manages her life by organizing it as logically as the periodic table. She can handle it all--or so she thinks. Then things dramatically change, and Kate must adapt like she has never before. |
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| YA ANDERSON |
SpeakA traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. |
| YA BAUER |
Hope Was HereWhen 16-year-old Hope, waitress extraordinaire, moves cross-country to Wisconsin with her aunt Addie to run the Welcome Stairways Diner, Hope isn't sure she'll fit in. But she quickly finds herself involved in the small town's mayoral race, as G. T., owner of the diner, surprises everyone with his entry into the race. After all, G. T. has leukemia. And his opponent is the previously undefeated longtime mayor. Some think G. T. is crazy, but Hope sees the goodness and power in him. Will everyone else see it too? |
| YA BAUER |
Rules of the RoadSixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father. |
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Trilogy by Ann Brasheres | |
| YA BRASHERES |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsDuring their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences. |
| YA BRASHERES |
The Second Summer of the SisterhoodWith a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer. |
| YA BRASHERES |
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spend their last summer before college learning about life and themselves. |
| YA BRIAN |
The V ClubWhen Mrs. Treemont dies, leaving a substantial sum of money for a scholarship, the students at Ardsmore High take note. The only catch is that the candidate "must exemplify purity of soul and body," which everyone assumes is another way of saying "virgin." Now, four high school friends are in competition with one another to win this prize. |
| YA CABOT |
All American GirlA sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son. |
| The Princess Diaries Series by Meg Cabot | |
| YA CABOT |
The Princess DiariesShe's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom... News Flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. Shock of the Century: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime princess material. Mia must take princess lessons from her dreaded grandmère, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne. But what's a girl to do when her name is Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo? |
| YA CABOT |
Princess In the SpotlightHaving recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns. (Book Two) |
| YA CABOT |
Princess In LoveIn 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. (Book Three) |
| YA CABOT |
Princess In WaitingPrincess Mia is introduced to her Genovian subjects, and more importantly, she goes out on a date in Book Four of the series. |
| YA CABOT |
Project PrincessHammer in hand, Princess Mia embarks on an epic adventure for one so admittedly unhandy: Along with her cohorts from school, she's off to build houses for the less fortunate. It doesn't take Mia long to realize that helping others -- while an unimpeachably noble pastime -- is very hard work. Will her giving spirit prevail? Will the house collapse due to royally clumsy construction? And most importantly, will Michael stop working long enough to kiss her? |
| YA CABOT |
Princess In PinkIn volume five in the series, Princess Mia has a new problem to overcome - how to get to the senior prom when boyfriend Michael thinks it's the height of lame. |
| YA CABOT |
The Princess Present: A Princess Diaries BookMia would give all the jewels in Genovia for the perfect present. Every year, Princess Mia spends the holidays in Genovia with Grandmère. This year, she's looking forward to the most perfect Christmas ever: her boyfriend, Michael, and her best friend, Lilly, are coming to Genovia, too. But even a princess's plans can go awry. Can Mia stop her bah-hum-bugging long enough to see that the perfect present has nothing to do with international express courier -- and everything to do with real love?. |
| YA CABOT |
Princess Lessons: A Princess Diaries GuideYes! Finally! Just what you've been waiting for! This book has it all: Preventing your tiara from slipping off. Keeping your pores squeaky clean. Winning the heart of the boy of your dreams (or, at the very least, the cute guy you sit next to in language lab). Avoiding a military incursion by a neighboring principality. And much, much more! |
| YA CABOT |
Teen IdolJenny Greenley is a high school junior who turns out to be much better at fixing other people's problems than her own, which leads to her becoming front-page news. |
| YA COHN |
GingerbreadAfter being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father. |
| YA DESSEN |
Keeping the MoonFifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self. |
| YA DESSEN |
This LullabyRaised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician. |
| YA FIEDLER |
Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's StoryIn a story based on the Shakespeare play, Ophelia describes her relationship with Hamlet, learns the truth about her own father, and recounts the complicated events following the murder of Hamlet's father. |
| YA FREDERICKS |
The True Meaning of CleavageWhen Jess and Sari, best friends since seventh grade, begin their freshman year of high school and Sari becomes obsessed with a senior boy, Jess wonders if their friendship will survive. Recommended for readers in grades 9 and up. |
| YA GRANT |
The Cannibals: Starring Tiffany SprattStereotypical cheerleader Tiffany Sprat is popular, pretty, and shallow. Her senior year was supposed to be perfect, but it's not. Her big break, the teen vampire movie to be shot at her school is cancelled, and the cool new kid at school, Campbell, doesn't think she's serious enough. After a few shots of reality, vapid Tiffany begins to rethink her priorities. |
| YA JUBY |
Alice, I ThinkFifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis." |
| YA JUBY |
Miss SmithersNo longer homeschooled and socially isolated, Alice McLeod has: 1. A female friend, George; 2. A male friend, Goose; 3. A $400 clothing allowance to dress herself for the Miss Smithers pageant. (Sequel to Alice, I Think) |
| YA MACKLER |
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves is sure that she's the weakest link in her high-powered family until her handsome, athletic, star-student brother shockingly falls from grace. |
| YA MACKLER |
Vegan Virgin ValentineOverachieving high school senior Mara Valentine's drive stems from the belief that she is her parents' "Only Hope"; her 35-year-old sister has achieved nothing but having a daughter, V, who is only a year younger than Mara and appears to be a "nicotine-addicted nympho." Her life is thrown into chaos when V comes to live with the family, and provides multiple shades of gray in Mara's black-and-white world. |
| YA MARCHETTA |
Saving FrancescaAll Francesca wants is her old friends and her old school, but instead Mia sends her to St. Sebastian's, an all-boys' school that has just opened its doors to girls. Now Francesca's surrounded by hundreds of boys, with only a few other girls for company. Then one day, Mia is too depressed to get out of bed. One day turns into months, and as her family begins to fall apart, Francesca realizes that without her mother's high spirits, she hardly knows who she is. With a little unlikely help from St. Sebastian's, she just might be able to save her family, her friends, and-especially-herself. |
| YA MORIARTY |
The Year of Secret AssignmentsLydia, Emily, and Cassie are longtime friends who share almost everything, especially the secret assignments that they have cooked up for one another in times of need since elementary school. When their English teacher assigns them pen pals (all boys) from rival Brookfield High, they strike out on their own to connect individually with their pen friends. The adventures of the friends are funny, exciting, and, at times, poignant as they deal with problems of growing up and developing relationships. It's a story of teenage life as it really feels--only funnier. |
| YA NELSON |
Ruby Electric: A NovelTwelve-year-old Ruby Miller, movie buff and aspiring screen writer, tries to resolve the mysteries surrounding her little brother's stuffed woolly mammoth and their father's five year absence. |
| YA PERKINS |
Monsoon SummerJasmine "Jazz" Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother's doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn't Jazz's idea of a great summer vacation. She's leaving the business she and her best friend, Steve Morales, started--as well as Steve himself. Jazz is crazy in love with the guy. If only he knew! Will the monsoon season work its magic on Jazz and change her? |
| The Confessions of Georgia Nicholson Series by Louise Rennison | |
| YA RENNISON |
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia NicholsonThis is the hilarious Bridget Jones-like diary of 14-year-old Georgia, who has a rather wild cat named Angus, a three-year-old sister who pees in her bed, and a best friend who is in love with the vegetable seller's son. |
| YA RENNISON |
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia NicholsonDisaster strikes again in this fabbity fab fab sequel to Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. Georgia's little sister Libby has been leaving sticky surprises in her bed again. Her faithful Scottish wildcat, Angus, is suddenly spending all his time with a good-looking feline next door. Then there's her nose. Will it ever stop growing? But there's always a bright side, and this time it's ultra bright since Georgia is dating the Sex God (aka Robbie). Everything should be just perfect...until her pathetically unhip parents announce that the family is moving to New Zealand. |
| YA RENNISON |
Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas: Further, Further Confessions of Georgia NicholsonThe saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicholson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship. |
| YA RENNISON |
Dancing In My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia NicholsonThe further confessions of teenaged Georgia Nicholson continue as, among other things, she begins to wonder if Robbie is really the right boy for her. |
| YA RENNISON |
Away Laughing On a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia NicholsonJust when the Sex God becomes Georgia' s official boyfriend, he decides to go off and snog sheep in Kiwi-a-gogo land, taking her heart with him. Georgia decides to display extreme glaciosity to all boys -- after all, a girl can only have her heart broken so many times. |
| YA SHELDON |
Confessions of a Teenage Drama QueenIn her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school. |
| YA SHELDON |
My Perfect LifeElla has no interest in running for class president at her suburban New Jersey high school, but her offbeat friend Lola tricks her into challenging the rich and overbearing Carla Santini in a less-than-friendly race. |
| YA-PAP SHERWOOD |
The Man Who Ate the 747As a reporter for the "Book of Records," J.J. Smith has spent the last 14 years traveling the world searching for everything from the longest apple peel to the longest flight of a champagne cork. But he has never seen something quite like a man trying to eat an entire 747 to prove his love for a woman. When J.J. travels to a rural Nebraskan town to record this record, he unexpectedly falls for the same woman and realizes not all records can be measured. |
| YA SMITH |
Lucy the GiantFifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaskan town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat. |
| YA SONES |
One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
After her mother's death, Ruby moves to Los Angeles to live with her father whom she's never met: actor Whip Logan. Ruby hates her new glamorous life, but a tragic incident helps Ruby and Whip be honest with each other. |
| YA SONES |
What My Mother Doesn't KnowSophie is happily dating Dylan, "until he's practically glued himself to my side." Then she falls for cyberboy ("if I could marry a font/I'd marry his"). Imagine her surprise when he becomes downright scary. In the satisfying ending, Sophie finds the perfect boyfriend-someone she's known all along. |
| YA SPINELLI |
StargirlFrom the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of "Stargirl, Stargirl." She captures Leo Borlock's heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. |
| YA TASHJIAN |
Fault LineWhen Becky meets Kip at a comedy club at which they are both performing, she is instantly attracted to him. They quickly become inseparable and Becky becomes "someone whose conversation was sprinkled with `My boyfriend and I did this' and `My boyfriend and I did that.'" But Kip's constant attention borders on obsessive, and he is controlling of her hair, her clothes, her time-even her comedy routines. Kip's controlling nature mounts, and when it comes to a peak, Becky's life changes forever. Recommended for readers in grades 9 and up. |
| YA VAN DRAANEN |
FlippedIn alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. |
| YA WHELAN YA-PAP W |
Homeless BirdWhen thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. |
| YA WOL |
Make LemonadeJolly is seventeen. She can't really spell. She doesn't have much of a job. And she has two little kids from two different, absent fathers. Jolly knows she can't cope with Jilly and Jeremy all by herself. So she posts a notice on the school bulletin board: BABYSITTER NEEDED BAD. No one replies but Verna LaVaughn, who's only fourteen. How much help can she be? For a while, Jolly, Jilly, Jeremy, and LaVaughn are an extraordinary family. Then LaVaughn takes the first steps toward building her own future, and Jolly begins the long, slow process of turning the lemons of her life into lemonade. |
| YA WOL YA-PAP W |
True BelieverWe have a multitude of obstacles to overcome here. We'll begin. When LaVaughn was little, the obstacles in her life didn't seem so bad. But LaVaughn is fifteen and the obstacles aren't going away anymore. Big questions separate her from her friends. With delicacy and sensitivity, Wolff examines the tensions that grow out of LaVaughn's decision to improve herself while leaving others behind, her choice to forgive in the face of Myrtle and Annie's intolerance, and her ability to trust despite a dangerous world. |
