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| Anderson, Laurie Halse. Prom .2005 When the faculty advisor is arrested for stealing the funds for the prom and the event is cancelled, Ashley Hannigan feels terrible for her best friend and prom-enthusiast Natalia and so comes up with a plan to get the prom back on track with the assistance of her family, classmates, and Natalia's creative grandmother. |
| Bradley, Alex. 24
Firls in 7 Days .2005 Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date for the prom until his so-called best friends post an ad in the school newspaper and assemble a list of eager girls, giving him just seven days to meet and date them all before asking one special girl tothe prom.After Jack Grammar's friends, Percy and Natalie, post a personal ad in the school newspaper for him, Jack ends up with only seven days to date all the responses before asking 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.During summer break, longtime friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget each embark on adventures that they share with each other through a pair of jeans that they have decided will be worn by all and so will absorb all of their stories. |
| Brian, Kate. The
Princess and the Pauper .2003 When Princess Carina, the pampered daughter of the king and queen of Vineland, and Julia Johnson, a poor scholarship student, decide to switch places for a day, things soon get wildly out of hand, in a delightfully modern twist on a classic tale that gives new meaning to happily ever after. |
| Cabot, Meg. All
American Girl .2002 After happening upon a situation where she ends up playing an important role in saving the president's life, Samantha Madison's simple life is turned upside-down as she soon becomes a major news story, gets an appointment to the U.N., and discovers that the president's son has a crush on her. |
| 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. |
| Hiassen, Carl. Hoot. 2002 Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, befriends a mysterious boy who introduces him to potty-trained alligators, burrowing owls, and sparkly-tailed poisonous snakes. |
| Juby, Susan. Alice, I Think. 2003 Having been taught at home for the past ten years, Alice is planning to enter public school as a tenth grader and so wants her reappearance into the social scene to be perfect in every way so that the transition is both simple and successful. |
| Koertge, Ron. Confess-O-Rama. 1996 While his mother grieves the death of her fourth husband, Tony vents his feelings to the Confess-O-Rama, never suspecting who's on the other end of the line. |
| Korman, Gordon. No
More Dead Dogs. 2000 While his mother grieves the death of her fourth husband, Tony vents his feelings to the Confess-O-Rama, never suspecting who's on the other end of the line |
| Korman, Gordan. Son of the Mob. 2002 Seventeen-year-old Vince Luca'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. |
| Limb, Sue. Girl,
15, charming but insane . 2004 Saddled with beautiful Fiona as a best friend, Jess Jordan launches a campaign to get her would-be soul mate Ben to notice her, and instead brings on a cavalcade of mortification and disaster, not the least of which is a minestrone explosion in her bra and a school-wide viewing of a videotape that features a topless Jess referring to her breasts and Bonnie and Clyde. |
| Limb, Sue. Girl, (nearly 16), absolute torture. Anticipating many glorious hours together with her boyfriend, Fred, during her summer break, Jess is devastated when she is told she must visit her father for two weeks, causing her to fear what her best friend, Flora, may do in her absence while also totally dreading her meeting with a man she hardly knows. |
| Limb, Sue. Girl,
going on 17, pants on fire . 2006 Jess' seventeenth year is a tumultuous one, due to a series of lies and unfortunate circumstances, including her break-up with Fred, her school detention, and her mother's new romance. |
| Lubar, David. Dunk. 2002 While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away. |
| 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 Shreves tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. |
| Moriarty, Jaclyn. The Year
of Secret Assignments.
2004 In an attempt to bridge the gap between the rich Brookfielders and less-fortunate Ashbury kids, a penpal club is arranged with the intention that the exchange of letters will make the two sides better understand one another, but when things dont go as planned, a full-scale war breaks out between the two schools with little hope for a successful truce. |
| Paulsen, Gary. The Glass
Cafe. 2003 When twelve-year-old Tony, a talented artist, begins sketching the dancers at the Kitty Kat Club where his mother is an exotic dancer, it sparks the attention of social services. |
| Rennison, Louise. Startled
by His Fury Shorts.
2006 With Masimo, Dave the Laugh, and Robbie all knocking down her door, Georgia Nicolson must find a way to manage her interested ensemble of cute boys in order to figure out which one is just the right fit for her. |
| Rennison, Louise. Then
He Ate My Boy Entrancers.
2005 After trying to take Hamburger-a-gogo land, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, British teen Georgia Nicholson returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats. |
| Rennison, Louise. Away
Laughing on a Fast Camel. 2004 With Masimo, Dave the Laugh, and Robbie all knocking down her door, Georgia Nicolson must find a way to manage her interested ensemble of cute boys in order to figure out which one is just the right fit for her. |
| Shusterman, Neal. The
Schwa was Here. 2004 After trying to take Hamburger-a-gogo land, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, British teen Georgia Nicholson returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats. |
| Zusak, Markus. I
am the Messenger. 2005 After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness. |
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