Dyan Sheldon

In her first year at a 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.

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

When fashionista Sicilee, arty Maya, and antisocial Waneeda risk their reputations by joining Clifton Springs High School's Environmental Club to be near gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot, each finds a new way of looking at the world.

The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love

Hildy D'Angelo is seventeen and this is the summer she falls in love for the first time. She isn't what you'd call experienced when it comes to boys, but Connor is good looking, smart, charming and sweet (with a melt-that-ice-cap smile). Hildy is a sarcastic and funny, down-to-earth girl with lots of friends, and yet she proves to be a little bit of a fool for love. When Connor uses the L word, Hildy, already half in love with the idea of falling in love, releases her hold on the Earth. And because it's all very new to her, she thinks that Connor's irrational bursts of jealousy are signs of affection. Teething pains. No big deal. She ties herself in knots trying to appease him and not let on to her suspicious friends (or herself) that there is anything wrong. Until, finally, poor tortured Connor goes a step too far - and Hildy sees the truth at last...

One Or Two Things I Learned about Love

Sixteen-year-old Janet Bandry keeps a diary as she deals with an annoying family, school, a quirky best friend, and trying to find herself through vegetarianism, literature, romance, and her "Dark Phase." Reprint.

Planet Janet

Ella has no interest in running for class president at her suburban New Jersy high school, but her offbeat friend Lola tricks her into challenging the rich and overbearing Carla Santini in a less-than-friendly race.

My Perfect Life

A sharply observed, bittersweet tale of the trials of teenage pregnancy. Lana Spiggs is fed up with everyone telling her what to do. If it isn't her mother nagging and shouting, it's her teachers nagging and shouting. What Lana wants is to be grownup. She wants her own flat, her own husband and her own children - and then no one will be able to boss her around any more. When Lana meets Les on her fifteenth birthday, she knows he is the one. And when she gets pregnant without even trying, she knows it's her ticket to freedom - even though everyone else calls it a prison sentence. But can her dream of Happy Families stand up to reality?

And Baby Makes Two

Enthralled by her grandmother's story of seeing and hearing whales singing in the sea long ago, Lilly hopes to see them herself and to hear their mysterious songs.

Canto de las ballenas

Gracie and Savannah are best friends, despite being totally different. When Gracie meets a boy she really likes, and Savannah comes between them, Gracie realises that maybe it's time she started thinking for herself. A witty and funny story about friendship, keeping your own identity and moving on. Ages 12+.

My Worst Best Friend

After finding an arrowhead in her backyard, a young girl has a dream about the Indians who once lived in the same area.

Under the Moon

Confessions of a Hollywood Star

Gemma Kaliski and Amy Ford have been best friends for years. They share the same interests and sense of humour - and the same contempt of tall, thin blondes, whose only talk is of boys and fashion. Now almost over night, Amy has changed: she's into salads and diet Coke; she's got a new hairstyle, wardrobe and set of friends. Gemma - short, dark and full of figure - finds herself part of a group of unglamorous oddballs, nicknamed the Martians. Torn between the weird and the perfect, Gemma's soul-searchings contain humour and heartache.

Tall, Thin and Blonde

Boy of My Dreams

Teenlit: Aku Sudah dewasa

Marigold Liotta, Asher Grossman and Giorgiana Shiller have got it all - money, looks and good grades. Life couldn't get much better - until their principal, Dr Kilpaticky, decides it's time to burst their bubble of advantage by assigning them tough community service placements as part of their school curriculum. And so the fun begins as Marigold finds herself tutoring a moody, silent nine year-old in a deprived part of town, Giorgiana is pushed to breaking point with an extremely sarcastic octogenarian in a nursing home and Asher is swamped with crying babies, flooded basements and the unemployed at a local community centre.

Bursting Bubbles

Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Menjelajah Amerika

Michelle, more commonly known as Mike, can't stop thinking about it. When will she meet the boy of her dreams? When will she fall in love? Then she meets Bill and it happens. She thinks Bill is her destiny. But Bone, her best friend, says she has changed since she started going out with Bill.

The Boy of My Dreams

Hello, I Must Be Going

Although he falls for Jena the first time he sees her, Josh cannot bring himself to tell her his real feelings once they become good friends.

Just Friends

YA. Teenage Issues. ZiZi likes to think of herself as a girly girl: her wardrobe is almost exclusively pink, her daily makeup routine can take upwards of an hour and she loves a bit of a flirt. Her best friend Loretta is very different: all of her clothes are black, she doesn't wear any makeup whatsoever and she doesn't like the way ZiZi dumbs herself down for boys or her old-fashioned ideas about 'a woman's place'. One day, they decide to make a bet. Can ZiZi stand looking like Loretta for longer than Loretta can bear dressing like ZiZi? As their summer unfolds often hilariously, the pair are surprised to find they have a lot to learn from each other.

More Than One Way to Be a Girl

What happens when a bratty teenage star and a hardworking waitress get a taste of each other’s worlds? Featuring the best-selling Dyan Sheldon at her snarky, entertaining best. Paloma Rose is sixteen and already a major TV star. She has money, franchises, adoring fans — and an agent and parents who are dependent on her success to sustain their very comfortable lives. But all that could come to an end when Paloma becomes more famous for her bad behavior than for her acting and her show’s sponsors threaten to cancel the upcoming season if things don’t improve. Meanwhile, Paloma’s worried agent happens upon Oona Ginness working in a coffee shop. Maybe she’s not as tall or as blond as Paloma, but details aside, they really might be twins. So a plan is born: What if they send Paloma to a brat camp to become a better person and put the malleable and much nicer Oona in her place? Oona thinks it’s a stupid idea, but the money is hard to resist, given her family’s dire circumstances. What does she have to lose? Of course, plans don’t always work out the way they’re supposed to. . . .

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