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Stories about the triumphs and disappointments of love.

The Beetle and Me: A Love Story ~Karen Romano Young
It's love at first sight between Daisy and the purple 1957 Volkswagen bug she is restoring on her own.

Dancing With an Alien ~Mary Logue
Branko, a teenage boy from outer space, travels to earth on a mission to help save his planet and ultimately falls in love with Tonia, causing his mission to fail.

Dreamland ~Sarah Dessen
Caitlin prefers the dreamland state she lives in. If she swam to the surface of reality she would have to face the truth about her relationship with brilliant and mysterious Rogerson.

The Fool Reversed ~Susan Whitcher
When Anna meets Thorn, an older man and poet from New York, sparks fly between them. Anna quickly finds herself introduced into a more sophisticated world where she constantly feels judged and often falling short.

Hard Love ~Ellen Wittlinger
John is an unhappy loner and then he falls in love with Marisol, a self-proclaimed “rich spoiled lesbian private-school gifted-and-talented writer virgin” of her own zine.

Imani All Mine ~Connie Rose Porter
Tasha is a teenage mother and her baby Imani is her lifeline. She stays in school and tries to build a life for herself and Imani, but her life is shattered when a tragedy occurs.

Kissing Tennessee and Other Stories from the Stardust Dance ~Kathi Appelt
The eighth-grade Stardust Dance at Dogwood Junior High School is the place where dreams, with the help of a few paper moons and a whole lot of glitter, just might come true.

My Angelica ~Carol Lynch Williams
Sage is enthusiastic about submitting her historical romance novel to the school creative writing contest, but her would-be boyfriend George thinks that it is awful and tries to stop her.

The Raging Quiet ~Sherryl Jordan
When headstrong young Marnie, an accused witch, befriends a deaf young man believed to be possessed by the devil a turbulent yet deeply satisfying romance evolves.

Stargirl ~Jerry Spinelli
The minute Stargirl shows up at Mica High, Leo is fascinated. Now in the grip of first love he is forced to choose between nonconformity and popularity.

Truth or Dairy ~Catherine Clark
Courtney's boyfriend, "such a Dave", breaks up with her because he's heading off to college. Angry and humiliated, Courtney vows to survive senior year on the anti-guy plan.

Two Suns in the Sky ~Miriam Bat-Ami
Chris is a bored teenager living in Oswego, NY in 1944. When she meets Adam, a Yugoslavian Jewish refugee, the two fall passionately in love in spite of their differences of language and religion--and the angry resistance of Chris's father to anything "foreign."

Compiled by L. Baldwin, Librarian
Brick & Upper Shores
January 2001

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