Chick Lit
Here's where to find our list of recommended books for teen girls. If you would like to help make new lists or add on to an existing list call Carly @ 262-0626 or email at crencsko@biblio.org.
| Chick Lit | |
| Anderson, Jodi Lynn | |
| Peaches: A Novel 2005 | |
| Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach. Includes the sequel The Secrets of Peaches |
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| Anderson, Laurie Halse | |
| Prom 2005 | |
| Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life. | |
| Bradley, Alex | |
| 24 Girls in 7 Days 2005 | |
| Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date to the prom. Or so he thinks. Percy and Natalie, Jack's so-called best friends, post an ad in the classified section of the online version of the school newspaper. They figure it couldn't hurt. After all, there's not much in this world sadder than Jack's love life. Soon Percy and Natalie have assembled a list of girls eager to go to the prom with Jack, including one mysterious girl known only as FancyPants. He has just seven days to meet and date them before he will ask one special girl to the prom. | |
| Brashares, Ann | |
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2001 | |
| During 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. Sequels include The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls in Pants: Third Summer of the Sisterhood, and Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood |
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| Bryant, Annie | |
| Bad News/Good News 2005 | |
| Charlotte can't believe it. Her father wants to move away again, and the timing couldn't be worse for the Beacon Street Girls. Charlotte just joined the school newspaper. Maeve needs help with the most important project of her life. The new girl, Isabel, is trying to join their group. And their adopted dog, Marty, needs lots of attention. For Charlotte, Katani, Avery and Maeve -- does all this add up to good news? or bad news? Find out in the Beacon Street Girls latest adventure. Book two of Beacon Street Girls. |
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| Bryant, Annie | |
| Letters from the Heart 2005 | |
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Life seems perfect for Maeve and Avery ... until they find out that in seventh grade, the world can turn upside down just like that. Will divorce, boy trouble, dog trouble, and the Queens of Mean ruin everything for the Beacon Street Girls? Book three of Beacon Street Girls. |
| Cabot, Meg | |
| All-American Girl 2002 | |
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A 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 |
| Cabot, Meg | |
| The Princess Diaries 2000 | |
| Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. Sequels include Princess in the Spotlight, Princess in Love, Princess in Waiting, Project Princess, Princess in Pink, Princess in Training, The Princess Present, Party Princess, Sweet Sixteen Princess, Valentine Princess, Princess on the Brink, Princess Mia, and Holiday Princess |
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| Caletti, Deb | |
| Honey, Baby, Sweetheart 2004 | |
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In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another. |
| Cann, Kate | |
| California Holiday: or How the World's Worst Summer Job Gave me a Great New Life 2005 | |
| Clarke, Catherine | |
| Truth or Dairy 2000 | |
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Can Courtney really give up guys and focus on friends, school, and her job at the hip cafe Truth or Dairy? Or will a stint in student government, an epileptic dog, and a guy named Grant Superior turn her world upside down and prove her journal right? |
| Cohn, Rachel | |
Shrimp 2005 |
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| Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process. | |
| Dent, Grace | |
| LBD: Live and Fabulous 2005 | |
| Now fifteen years old, Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude, with Fleur's sister as their chaperone, are having the time of their lives at the Astlebury music festival when Fleur suddenly disappears while crowd surfing. | |
| Desai Hidier, Tanuja | |
| Born Confused 2002 | |
| Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes. | |
| Dessen, Sarah | |
Truth About Forever 2004 |
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| The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. | |
| Juby, Susan | |
Alice, I Think 2003 |
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| Fifteen-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." | |
| Kantor, Melissa | |
| Confessions of a Not It Girl 2004 | |
| High school senior Jan Miller is convinced she's destined for the world's least fabulous life because she doesn't have IT. But, maybe, just maybe, being a Not It Girl will turn out to have some major rewards. | |
| Kantor, Melissa | |
| If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where is My Prince? 2005 | |
| When the father of high school sophomore, Lucy Norton, remarries, Lucy finds herself tormented by two bratty stepsisters and a wicked stepmother. | |
| Krovatin, Christopher | |
| Heavy Metal and You 2005 | |
| High schooler Sam begins losing himself when he falls for a preppy girl who wants him to give up getting wasted with his best friends and even his passion for heavy metal music in order to become a better person. | |
| Krulik, Nancy | |
| She's Got the Beat 2005 | |
| Miranda was the quiet type-until she moved to Austin. Home of th hippest college rock bands, Austin Texas, is a scene. And Miranda is dying to break out of her small-town shell. So she decides to do something totally un-Miranda: learn to play the drums. When crashing the cymbals, the girl's a wild child! Plus there's a perk to her new gig: a cute bass player. Unfortunately Mr. Bass Man isn't exactly looking for love. Can this rocker chick change his tune? Or does finding her own rhythm mean sacrificing true love? | |
| Limb, Sue | |
| Girl, 15, Charming but Insane 2004 | |
| 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. Includes prequels and sequels Girl, Barely 15, Flirting for England, Girl, (Nearly) 16, Absolute Torture, and Girl, Going on 17, Pants of Fire. |
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| Lockhart, E. | |
| The Boyfriend List (15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and Me, Ruby Oliver) 2005 | |
| 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. | |
| Mackler, Carolyn | |
| The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things 2003 | |
| Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. | |
| Mackler, Carolyn | |
| Vegan, Virgin Valentine 2004 | |
| Mara's niece, who is only one-year-younger, moves in bringing conflict between the two teenagers because of their opposite personalities. | |
| Myracle, Lauren | |
| TTYL 2004 | |
| Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade. Sequels include TTFN and L8r, G8r |
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| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | |
| Alice on Her Way 2005 | |
| Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her ex-boyfriend, and getting a driver's license. Part of the 'Alice' series. |
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| Rallison, Janette | |
| All's Fair in Love, War and High School 2003 | |
| When head cheerleader Samantha Taylor does poorly on the SAT exam, she determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president, but her razor wit and acid tongue make her better suited to dishing out insults than winning votes. | |
| Rennison, Louise | |
| Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging 2000 | |
| 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. Sequels include 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, and Love is a Many Trousered Thing |
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| Ostow, Micol | |
| Westminister Abby 2005 | |
| Abby discovers her real self when she goes to London to pursue her studies. | |