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 | Brashares, Ann | | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | | Four best girlfriends, each a bona fide individual, spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants, that fits tem all. |
| | Cabot, Meg | | Teen Idol | | When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker invades a small Indiana high school for research, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her talents to change things at school for the better. |
| | Colfer, Eoin | | Artemis Fowl | | Twelve-year-old Artemis is a millionaire, a genius, and a criminal mastermind. When Artemis kidnaps a fairy, he goes up against his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the Fairy Police. |
| | Dessen, Sarah | | The Truth about Forever | | Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her boyfriend’s return from camp, but ends up at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. |
| | Douglas, Lola | | True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet | | Teen movie star Morgan Carter retreats to a small town to recuperate anonymously after an overdose and rehabilitation, recording her thoughts in a diary. |
| | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | | Just Ella | | Fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming’s proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots an escape. |
| | Holm, Jennifer L . | | Boston Jane | | Schooled in etiquette for young ladies, Jane finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest or her life among the traders and Chinook Indians. |
| | Juby, Susan | | Alice, I Think | | Alice is an odd, acerbic misfit who has been home-schooled by her still-hippie parents her whole life. Now she’s going to public high school... |
| | Kadohata, Cynthia | | Kira-Kira | | Winner of the 2004 Newbery Medal, this elegant, heartbreaking book explores the strong bond between two Japanese sisters in 1950s Georgia. |
| | Kessler, Liz | | The Tail of Emily Windsnap | | After convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world. |
| | McKinley, Robin | | Spindles End | | The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity. |
| | Montgomery, L. M. | | Anne of Green Gables | | Anne, sent by mistake to live with a middle-aged brother and sister on a farm, makes an indelible impression on everyone around her. |
| | Moriarty, Jaclyn | | The Year of Secret Assignments | | Three students must write to other students at rival schools, with uproarious results. Told entirely in letters, quizes, diary entries, subpoenas, etc., this is exhilarating, screwball fun. |
| | Peck Richard | | Fair Weather | | In 1893, Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World’s Columbian Exposition. |
| | Perkins, Mitali | | Monsoon Summer | | Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, Jazz spends the summer away from him when her family goes to India. |
| | Spinelli, Jerry | | Stargirl | | In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High forever. |
| | Staples, Suzanne Fisher | | Shabanu | | When Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad, is pledged in marriage to an older man, she must either accept the decision or risk the consequences of defying her father’s wishes. |
| | Van Draanen, Wendelin | | Flipped | | In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. |
| | Wolff, Virginia Euwer | | Make Lemonade | | Jolly, 17-years-old, has LaVaughn babysit her two kids while she searches for work. LaVaughn prods Jolly to go back to school, where the skills she learns change her life. |
| | Zevin, Gabrielle | | Elsewhere | | When Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in Elsewhere, a place both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live." |
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