Friday, February 12, 2016

A Valentine's Day gift for our YA readers.....

..... a list of all those great TEEN NOVELS
 that have bits, chips or chunks of romance mixed in!

Yes, love does make the world go round
(romance provides the primary framework for the story)

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour Morgan Matson
Anna and the French Kiss  / Lola and the Boy Next Door* Stephanie Perkins
Audrey, Wait! Robin Benway
The Big Crunch / What Boys Really Want Pete Hautman
Bone Gap* Laura Ruby
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series Louise Rennison
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares  / Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist*
 Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Dairy Queen trilogy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Sarah Dessen (many titles)
Eleanor and Park Rainbow Rowell
The Future of Us Jay Asher
Girl Meets Boy: because there are two sides to every story* ed. by Kelly Halls
Love and Other Foreign Words  Erin McCahan
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda* Becky Albertalli
Six Impossible Things Fiona Wood
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight / This is what Happy Looks Like Jennifer E. Smith
Sway Kat Spears
Undercover Beth Kephart
Winter Town Stephen Emond

What's a good war without a buddy by your side?
(dystopias are no fun without a special friend)

The Chaos Walking trilogy* Patrick Ness
The Delirium trilogy Lauren Oliver
The Divergent trilogy Veronica Roth
The Hunger Games trilogy Suzanne Collins
The Legend series Marie Lu
The Matched trilogy Allyson Condie
The Mortal Engines Quartet Philip Reeve
Rook Sharon Cameron
The Unwind Dystology Neil Shusterman

At Death's door
(characters with fatal conditions)

Before I die* Jenny Downham
Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon
The fault in our stars* John Green
The Game of Love and Death* Martha Brockenbrough
If I stay (with its sequel When she left*) Gayle Forman
Thirteen reasons why Jay Asher

Try it, you’ll like it
(who has time for romance when life gets in the way?)

            Bright Before Sunrise Tiffany Schmidt
Emmy and Oliver Robin Benway
Fangirl* Rainbow Rowell
Geek Girl series Holly Smale
I’ll Give You The Sun* Jandy Nelson
My Life Next Door / The Boy Most Likely To Huntley Fitzpatrick
The Sea of Tranquility* Katja Millay
The Tightrope Walkers* David Almond

Hold on to your hat - and your sweetheart!
(action-adventures with dynamic duos)

Blink and Caution Tim Wynne-Jones
A Girl Named Digit / Double Digit Annabel Monaghan
Insignia / Vortex / Catalyst  S. J. Kincaid
The Scorpio Races Maggie Stiefvater
Sharks and Boys Kristen Tracy
The Tomorrow series John Marsden

Fantastic friendships
 (partners brave imaginary worlds together)

Airborn series by Kenneth Oppel
Book of a Thousand Days */ Books of Bayern series Shannon Hale
Carry On Rainbow Rowell
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown Holly Black
Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy Laini Taylor
The Leviathan trilogy Scott Westerfeld
Feed M. T. Anderson
Graceling and Fire* (The Seven Kingdoms series) Kristin Cashore
The Hunchback Assignments series Arthur Slade
Incarceron and sequel Sapphique Catherine Fisher
Leland Sisters series Marissa Doyle
Seraphina Rachel Hartman
These Broken Stars and other titles in the Starbound series
Kaufman and Spooner
Throne of Glass series Sarah J. Maas
The Twilight series* Stephenie Meyer
Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy Maggie Stiefvater

Life wasn't so different back then
(couples meant for each other don't let history stand in their way)

The Arthur Trilogy plus Crossing to Paradise Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Bloody Jack series* L. A. Meyers
TheMontmaray Journals (trilogy) Michelle Cooper
Friday's Child / Sprig Muslin Georgette Heyer
I Shall Be Near to You Erin McCabe
The Leviathan trilogy / Scott Westerfeld
The Morning Gift / The Reluctant Heiress /A Song for Summer*Eva Ibbotson
Palace of Spies trilogy Sarah Zettel
Revolution Jennifer Donnelly
Shattered Sea trilogy Joe Abercrombie



*for older teens


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