The Many Faces of Romance: a fiction list for teens

Achingly Alice / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 1999.

Thirteen-year-old Alice sets long- and short-term priorities for her life as she experiences the complexities of young love.

Annie on My Mind / Nancy Garden, 1982.

Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.

The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer / Gary Paulsen, 2000.

The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer and carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen.

Boy Meets Boy / David Levithan, 2003.

Paul has finally met the boy of his dreams, but everything else falls apart as old friends grow distant and an ex-boyfriend seeks him out.

Dreamland / Sarah Dessen, 2000.

After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.

Hello, I Lied / M.E. Kerr, 1997.

Summering in the Hamptons on the estate of a famous rock star, seventeen-year-old Lang tries to decide how to tell his longtime friends that he is gay, while struggling with an unexpected infatuation with a girl from France.

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart / Deb Caletti, 2004.

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.

How do I love thee : three stories / Lurlene McDaniel, 2002.

A collection of three stories in which teenagers facing life-threatening illnesses find that love can make all things bearable.

If You Come Softly / Jacqueline Woodson, 1998.

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.

Jason & Kyra / Dana Davidson, 2004.

Handsome and popular Jason tries to come to terms with his irascible, often absent father and his growing attraction to the quiet, studious Kyra.

Kissing Doorknobs / Terry Spencer, 1998.

Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends.

Love and Sex : Ten Stories of Truth / edited by Michael Cart, 2001.

Wide-ranging short stories revealing different angles of teens' romantic lives.

Moon Dancer / Margaret I. Rostkowski, 1995.

Miranda, a nature loving, athletic fifteen-year-old, goes on a backpacking trip to look for Indian paintings in the canyons of southern Utah, where she feels a mystical connection to the women who were there before her.

Much Ado About Prom Nite / William McCants, 1995.

Political uproar about a peer counseling program in a southern California high school keeps two star-crossed antagonists at odds before the upcoming prom.

Romiette and Julio / Sharon M. Draper, 1999.

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 harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.

Sex Education / Jenny Davis, 1998.

As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring and eventually about pain and courage.

Weetzie Bat / Francesca Lia Block, 1989.

Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles punk friends, Dirk, Duck-Man, and Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.

What my mother doesn't know / Sonya Sones, 2001.

In this frank and heartfelt verse novel, Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right.

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