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Carter, Ally. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative,Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.

Sequel is: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy 

Cohn, Rachel & David Levithan. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-girlfriend.

Conford, Ellen. Crush

A series of nine romantic episodes in the lives of B.J. and other students at Cutter's Forge High as they plan for the Valentine's Day Sweetheart Stomp.

Dessen, Sarah. This Lullaby  

Raised 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.

Draper, Sharon. Romiette and Julio

Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.

Fiedler, Lisa. Romeo's Ex: Rosaline's Story

In a story based on the Shakespeare play, sixteen-year-old Roseline, who is studying to be a healer, becomes romantically entangled with the Montague family even as her beloved young cousin, Juliet Capulet, defies the family feud to secretly marry Romeo.

Friedman, Robin. The Girlfriend Project

New Jersey high school senior Reed Walton has never had a girlfriend, but once he gets his braces off, gets contact lenses, and turns into a "hottie," his two best friends set up a website to remedy the situation.

Goldblatt, Stacey. Stray: A Novel

Natalie's mother is so strict that when the teenaged son of her old school friend comes to stay with them for the summer, Natalie is tempted to break her mother's rules and follow her own instincts for a change.

King,Katina. Ride Wit’ Me: A Novel 

16 year old Mercedes attends an exclusive private boarding school on the East Coast and returns home to her family's Chicago mansion every summer. When she meets & falls in love with Dalvin, her father forbids the relationship and tells Meredith his secret: he and Dalvin's father are big-time criminals and rivals.

Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate

Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

Korman, Gordon. Son of the Mob 

Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

Leavitt, Martine. Keturah and Lord Death

When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

Lester, Julius. Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire

Cupid, the spoiled and mischievous god of love, is attracted to and marries the beautiful mortal, Psyche, and both learn many lessons about the nature of love.

Limb, Sue. Girl, 15, Charming but Insane

Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor.

Lockhart, E. The Boyfriend List: (15 guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and Me, Ruby Oliver)

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.

Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely

Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and Winter Queen; the survival of her life, love, and summer all hang in the balance.

Sequel is Ink Exchange 

Namioka, Lensey. Mismatch: A Novel

When Suzanne Hua, a Chinese American, and Andy Suzuki, a Japanese American, meet in their high-school orchestra, their white classmates see them as a good match. But things are different at home: Suzanne's beloved grandmother can't forget the brutality of the Japanese who invaded China, and Andy's father is prejudiced against the Chinese.

Nilsson, Per. Heart's Delight

As a 16 year old looks at and systematically destroys each of his mementos of Ann-Kathrin, he replays scenes from their relationship and realizes that it was not the great romance he believed it to be.

Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs and Full-FrontalSnogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

Other books in this series are: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas, Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel, Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers, Startled by his Furry Shorts, Love is a Many Trousered Thing, and Stop in the Name of Pants

Ryan, Sara. Empress of the World

While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.

Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys 

Three friends (a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate) struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicted feelings about each other.

Sequel is Rainbow High

Sones, Sonya. What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know 

Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser," and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard.

Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl

In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. 

Sequel is Love, Stargirl

van Draanen, Wendelin. Flipped

In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.

Wittlinger, Ellen. Heart on My Sleeve

From the end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their families and friendships and explore their feelings for each other through emails, letters, and a visit.

Woodson, Jacqueline. If You Come Softly

After meeting at their private school in New York, Jeremiah and Ellie fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions to their interracial relationship.

Sequel is Behind You 

Blushing: Expressions of Love in Poems and Letters collected by Paul B. Janeczko

The thumping of your heart in your chest. Butterflies in your stomach. A blush. These are the symptoms of lovesickness, and if you've ever experienced them, this book is for you.

In a collection of classic poems and letters that traces the arc of a relationship from first sight to deepest love to heartbreak to healing, Paul B. Janeczko has selected some of the most powerful musings on love that poetry has to offer.

The Girls’ Book of Love: Cool Quotes, Super Stories, Awesome Advice, and More edited by Catherine Dee

A collection of true stories, quotes, poems, and personal advice on various aspects of romantic relationships and being in love.

One Hot Second: Stories About Desire edited by Cathy Young

A collection of eleven stories by award-winning authors that explore the many varieties of teenage desire, including first crushes, first kisses, and first times.

Avon True Romance: Victoria and the Rogue

Growing up in far-off India, wealthy teenage heiress Lady Victoria Arbuthnot was accustomed to handling her own affairs - not to mention everyone else's. When Vicky is unceremoniously shipped off to London to find a husband, she gets herself engaged to the perfect English gentleman before the ship arrives in England. Hugo Rothschild, ninth earl of Malfrey, is everything a girl could want in a future husband: he's handsome and worldly, if not rich. Lady Victoria has everything just as she'd like it. That is, if raffish young ship captain Jacob Carstairs would leave well enough alone.

The Dating Game: A Novel

When three high school sophomores set up a weblog as a class project to research whether girls or boys are more sex-crazed - and to play matchmaker, their own messy love lives become even more complicated.

First Kisses: Trust Me

Jess's "trust partner" for counselor training is none other than her camp rival Sean, who's totally untrustworthy. Yet when she's around him, Jess isn't so sure she can trust her own heart.

Romantic Comedies: Royally Jacked

Valerie's life is pretty good. While she's not the most popular girl in school, she does have decent grades, great friends, and a potential boyfriend. Then her mother announces that (1) she's gay, and (2) she's leaving Valerie's dad for her girlfriend. Just when Valerie is getting over this bombshell, her father tells her he's got a new job working for the royal family of some obscure European country. Valerie opts to go, and quickly discovers that it was a mistake - until she meets the prince, and all bets are off!