Love Stories That Won't Make You Yawn
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Accidental Love After unexpectedly falling in love with a "nerdy" boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of her behavior, and losing weight. subjects: Love, Schools, Overweight Persons, Hispanic Americans |
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Audrey, Wait! While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts. subjects: Dating (Social Customs), Fame |
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Blood and Chocolate Sixteen-year-old Vivian Gandillon is trying to fit in to her new home in the suburbs. But trying to act “normal” isn’t always easy, since Vivian and her family are werewolves. Then Vivian falls in love with a human, a meat-boy. When a brutal murder threatens the pack’s survival, Vivian’s divided loyalties are further strained. subjects: Werewolves, Teenagers |
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Boy Meets Boy This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other. Cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl, and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance. subjects: Teenage Boys, Gay Teenagers, Male Friendship |
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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. Sequel: The Rules for Hearts: A Family Drama. subjects: Lesbians, Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Schools |
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Heartsinger n this meditation on various kinds of love, Mee travels across the country to the court of the Princess Esperanza, singing the life stories of some of the people he meets. subjects: Love, Voyages and Travels |
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Honey, Baby, Sweetheart 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. subjects: Interpersonal Relations, Love, Old Age, Self-Perception |
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If You Come Softly After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions. Sequel: Behind You. subjects: Interracial Dating, African-Americans, New York (NY), Schools |
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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. subjects: Death, Interpersonal Relations, Love, Grandmothers |
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Let it Snow In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town. subjects: Dating (Social Customs), Christmas, Storms |
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Lips Touch: Three Times Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls. subjects: Kissing, Supernatural, Short Stories |
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My Heartbeat As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing. subjects: Brothers and Sisters, Homosexuality, Interpersonal Relations, Family Life |
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Perfect Chemistry Wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes (a gang member from the other side of town) develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be. Then they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others. subjects: Social Classes, Dating (Social Customs), Gangs, Problem Families, High Schools |
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Perfect You High school sophomore Kate Brown spends her afternoons at the mall helping her dad sell vitamins, wishing her best friend Anna would stop being a popular snob, and is not sure how to act when Will--a gorgeous classmate but a total player--seems to be interested in her. subjects: Family Life, Friendship, Dating (Social Customs) Teenage Girls, High schools |
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The Reluctant Heiress Being an heiress in 1920s Austria with nothing but a broken-down castle to your name and nary a penny in your purse could be frustrating for anyone but the Princess Theresa-Maria of Pfaffenstein. Tessa, however, is thrilled with her situation, as it allows her to work incognito in the Viennese opera company without anyone knowing she is really a princess. Then, self-made millionaire Guy Farne arrives in search of suitable entertainment for his high society guests, and Tessa realizes that there may be more to life and love than just music. But while the attraction between them is undeniable, Guy's insufferable snob of a fiancée only solidifies Tessa's determination to keep her true identity a secret. Yet, after a chance meeting with him, Tessa's reserve begins to melt, and she starts to wonder if it's not too late for a fairytale ending. subjects: Opera, Princesses, Austria, Musical Fiction, Love Stories |
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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. subjects: Gangs, High Schools, Hispanic Americans, African Americans |
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Sirena The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War. subjects: Mermaids, Mythology-Greek, Aegean Sea Region |
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Sloppy Firsts Sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated when her best friend moves away and leaves Jessica to face the trials of high school on her own. Sequel: Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Helpings, Perfect Fifths. subjects: High School Students, Teenage Girls, New Jersey |
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Street Love This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated. subjects: African Americans, Love, Harlem (New York, N.Y.) |
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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. subjects: Dating (Social Customs), Mothers and Daughters, Musicians, Bands (Music) |
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What My Mother Doesn't Know Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right. Companion: What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know. subjects: Dating (Social Customs), Love |
List updated January 2010—Patti Cook
