Relationships :::
Relationships December 2006
Behrens, Andy.
All the way.
It's the last weekend before school begins and Ian, a senior, has
an idea he's going to drive his elderly yellow Oldsmobile 935 miles to Charleston, SC, for a
face-to-face with hottie Danielle, whom he met in a chat group. His best friends, Lance and
Felicia, join him on a hilarious road trip with near disasters.
Buckhanon, Kalisha.
Upstate.
Seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend,
Natasha, find their love tested when Antonio is wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't
commit.
Clarke, Kathryn Ann.
The breakable vow.
After eighteen-year-old Annie becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she
marries her boyfriend, but slowly realizes that he is abusive and that she must decide what she can
do to keep her daughter and herself safe. Includes information on the characteristics of abusive
relationships and how to end them.
Cook, Trish.
So lyrical.
Trace's teenaged life becomes even more challenging when she must
balance her friendships, school work, and family life with her quest to find her birth
father.
Draper, Sharon M.
Romiette and Julio.
Romiette, an African-American, and Julio, Hispanic, discover they
attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by gang
members who object to their interracial dating.
Griffiths, A.
Bittergirl: getting over getting dumped.
Such a fun read you’ll almost want to get dumped. Wise, wicked, and
wonderful.
Herrick, Steven
A place like this.
A verse novel set in Australia in which two young lovers postpone
college to embark on a road trip. They find work on an apple orchard, where they become immersed in
the life of the owner's teenage daughter, who is pregnant as the result of a rape.
Kantor, Melissa.
Confessions of a not it girl.
Jan Miller, hoping for a senior year romance, just can’t seem to
do anything right, especially when compared to her best friend Rebecca who has just been named a
New York "It Girl," but things start looking up when an old crush moves back to town.
Meyer, Stephanie H.
Teen ink: love and relationships.
A collection of stories and poems by teenage writers about love
and relationships.
Paul, Anthea.
Girlosophy.
A guide for girls on how to survive love and life that explains
how they can make sense of the patterns of their personal relationships and how those patterns fit
into her individual destiny.
Picoult, Jodi.
The Tenth circle.
Comic book artist Daniel Stone, a stay-at-home dad with a
fourteen-year-old daughter Trixie, and an unfaithful wife, turns a blind eye to Trixie's first
broken heart and wife Laura's affair, but the feelings of rage he has buried for years come to the
surface when Trixie is raped at a party and accuses her former boyfriend.
Ruby, Laura.
Good girls.
Audrey, a sixteen-year-old high school senior, is humiliated when
a compromising photograph of her with her boyfriend is sent around her school, but she discovers a
toughness within her that she never knew she had.
Shepard, Sara.
Pretty little liars.
When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four
high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting
messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.
Shusterman, Neal.
Dreadlocks.
Fourteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds
his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.
Sittenfeld, Curtis.
The man of my dreams.
Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-eight, Hannah Gavener
learns about love, the lies one tells oneself, growing up, and taking risks as she struggles
through two relationships and an unrequited love for her friend Henry for whom she moves halfway
across the country.
Sparks, Beatrice, ed.
It happened to Nancy.
The diary of an anonymous fourteen-year-old teenage who reveals
how she fell for a handsome college student who raped her and infected her with the HIV
virus.
Sparks, Beatrice, ed.
Treacherous love.
The diary of an anonymous fourteen-year-old teenage girl who has
an affair with her substitute math teacher.
Sparks, Nicolas.
Dear John.
After he is released from the Army, John Tyree meets Savannah Curtis, a
college coed who is everything he is not. In the short time they spend together, he opens up
to
Savannah
and true love develops as they plan for a future. Then 9/11 changes
everything. John reenlists in the Army, against
Savannah
’s wishes.
Westerfeld, Scott.
Peeps.
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and
must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.