Romance & True Love Fiction Title: Alice Series Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Summary: Alice McKinley experiences first love with Patrick, but finds having a boyfriend more challenging than she dreamed of when she is too busy to spend time with him and they both start noticing other people. Title: All American Girl Author: Meg Cabot Summary: Samantha, an artist with a major crush on her sister's boyfriend, finds her life very complicated after she rescues the President from an assassination attempt and becomes friends with the President's son. Title: Annie on My Mind Author: Nancy Garden Summary: Liza meets Annie at a museum one day and soon the girls are more than friends, but is Liza brave enough to love Annie openly or will she give up Annie forever? Title: Archangel Author: Sharon Shinn Summary: On a planet where marriages are chosen by the god, Jovah, the belligerent Rachel has no intention of willingly marrying the angel Gabriel, no matter how important she is to his elevation to Archangel. First in series. Title: Blankets: An Illustrated Novel Author: Craig Thompson Summary: Craig is a young man grappling with his faith and his future when he meets Raina and falls in love, but the intensity of his feelings may be too much for both of them. Graphic Novel. Title: Boy Meets Boy Author: David Levithan Summary: 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. Title: Bringing Up the Bones Author: Lara Zeises Summary: The depressed Bridget doesnt know how to stop loving her best friend and ex-boyfriend who died in a car accident seven months ago, but when she meets Jasper she begins the realize surviving Benjis death isnt her only problem. Title: Catalogue of the Universe Author: Margaret Mahy Summary: Tycho loves Angela, but she is obsessed with finding the father who abandoned her years ago. Title: China Garden Author: Liz Berry Summary: Clare fights an unwilling attraction to the Ravensmere estate and an equally unwilling desire for Mark, a troubled young man who knows more about Ravensmere and Clares destiny than hes willing to tell. Title: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson Author: Louise Rennison Summary: Georgia Nicholson is in search of a Sex God and some full-frontal snogging, but her embarrassing parents, bed-wetting little sister, and crazy cat keep getting in the way. Title: Dancing with an Alien Author: Mary Logue Summary: Tonia rescues a young man from drowning and falls in love with him, only to find that he is an alien looking for a mate to help replenish his dying race. Title: Dangerous Angels Author: Francesca Lia Block Summary: Weetzie Bat, the hip child of an ex-starlet, along with her friends Dirk and Duck and her true love, Secret Agent Man, look for love in all the wrong places and find it in all the right ones. Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-bop are all included in this book. Title: Divine Wind: A Love Story Author: Garry Disher Summary: Hart Penrose knows he loves Mitsi Sennosuke, but as the turmoil of World War II begins to impact his Australian community, her Japanese heritage could destroy their future together. Title: Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emilys Quest Author: L. M. Montgomery Summary: Emily Starr, an orphan sent to live with her stern aunts at New Moon, is determined to be a writer and to marry her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, despite many obstacles. Title: Empress of the World Author: Sarah Ryan Summary: Nicola, away from home to attend a gifted school for the summer, surprises herself when she falls in love for the first time  with a girl. Title: Flipped Author: Wendelin Van Draanen Summary: Bryce hates Juli Baker. Juli loves Bryce Loski. Hes avoided her since second grade. Shes chased him since second grade. Now, hes beginning to see how great she is and shes beginning to see his flaws  will they ever get together? Title: Forever... Author: Judy Blume Summary: Katherine knows she loves Michael, but when she meets a new guy over the summer she begins to wonder if her love for Michael will really last forever. Title: Forgotten Beasts of Eld Author: Patricia McKillip Summary: Sybel, a young sorceress raised by a reclusive father with only his menagerie of magical creatures for company, learns painful lessons about love and hatred when an infant prince is left in her care. Title: Gone With the Wind Author: Margaret Mitchell Summary: Scarlett OHara, the spoiled daughter of a rich plantation owner, loves the good and proper Ashley, but as the Civil War breaks out her fate is tied to the dashing blockade- runner, Rhett Butler. Title: Hard Love Author: Ellen Wittlinger Summary: John can only expresses himself through his zine until he meets Marisol, another zine writer, and begins to fall in unrequited love. Title: Hawksong Author: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Summary: Danica Shardae, the reluctant queen of the avian shapeshifters, is given the chance to bring peace to her people by marrying her fiercest foe, Zane Cobriana, a serpent shapeshifter prince. Title: I Capture the Castle Author: Dodie Smith Summary: Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal filled with funny yet sad entries about her beloved home in a ruined Suffolk castle, her eccentric and penniless family, and her unrequited first love. Title: If You Come Softly Author: Jaqueline Woodson Summary: Despite their cultural and physical differences, Ellie and Jeremiah love each other even though neither of their troubled families approve. Title: Jane Eyre Author: Charlotte Bronte Summary: Jane Eyre, orphaned young and educated in a strict boarding school, finds an unexpected home as a governess in the employment of Mr. Rochester, a man who's secrets threaten to destroy everyone living under his roof. Title: Jenna Starborn Author: Sharon Shinn Summary: Jenna, a product of bioengineering, is educated as a nuclear reactor maintenance technician who's first job on a remote planet working for a wealthy and mysterious employer leads to romance and danger. A retelling of Jane Eyre. Title: Jinx Author: Margaret Wild Summary: Jen is called a jinx after her first boyfriend commits suicide and her second is dies in an accident, and in her dispair and anger, she embraces the name. Title: Keeper of the Isis Light Author: Monica Hughes Summary: Young Olwen, the Keeper of the Isis Light, has lived alone with only the robot Guardian for company, but when human settlers finally come to her planet they bring a young man who is Olwens age. Title: Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, Author: Laura Esquivel Summary: When her true love, Pedro, marries her sister instead, Tita pours all her love into her cooking  with magical effects. Title: Lost in the Labyrinth Author: Patrice Kindl Summary: Princess Xenodice (a sister of the Minotaur) is in love with Daedalus (the son of the clever inventor, Icarus), but the Queen of Crete has great plans for her daughters and will never allow Xenodice to marry a slave. Title: Love and Other Four Letter Words Author: Caroline Mackler Summary: To Samantha, love sometimes seems like a bad word: her parents are divorcing, shes moving to Manhattan, and her best friend has ignored her since she fell in love  but with her new home come new friends and new confidence. Title: Love Trilogy Author: Kate Cann Summary: At first Collette is excited when Art takes an interest in her, but soon she begins to realize that he may want too much, too fast. Title: Mars Author: Fuyumi Soryo Summary: Rei is the school bad boy, Kira a shy art student  no one understands what they see in each other, but despite dark family secrets and dangerous encounters, Rei and Kira know they are meant to be together. Manga. Title: Morning is a Long Time Coming Author: Bette Greene Summary: On her way to Germany to find the family of the German POW who changed her life, Patty Bergen meets Roger in Paris, and he will change her life again. Sequel to Summer of My German Soldier. Title: My Heartbeat Author: Garret Weir Summary: Ellen idolizes her older brother Link and has a crush on his best friend James, but when she begins high school with them she starts to wonder if she really knows either one. Title: Owl in Love Author: Patrice Kindl Summary: Owl is in love with her science teacher, Mr. Lindstrom, and spends every night watching over him in her owl form from a tree outside his window. Title: Pirates! Author: Celia Rees Summary: Shipped off to Jamaica for an arranged marriage, Nancy Kingston escapes her fate by running away with a young slave girl and turning pirate, but the price of her independence may be her true love. Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Summary: Can hasty Elizabeth Bennett and haughty Fitzwilliam Darcy ever move beyond their misconceptions to find love? Title: Razzle Author: Ellen Wittlinger Summary: Kenyon has one passion and thats photography, but when he meets Razzle Penny he finds her fascinating as well  until the best looking girl in town takes notice of him. Title: Rebecca Author: Daphne DuMaurier Summary: The Manderley estate is haunted by the memory of the Rebecca, the first Mrs. De Winter, a woman of flamboyant elegance who even in death outshines the new Mrs. De Winter, a shy young woman unsure of her husband's love. Title: Romiette and Julio Author: Sharon M Draper Summary: Romiette and Julio meet in an Internet chat room and begin a romance, but her successful African-American parents and his proud Latino family, along with the local gang, oppose their interracial relationship. Title: Rosey in the Present Tense Author: Louise Hawes Summary: When Lins lost love appears to him as a ghost, hes willing to accept her if thats the only way he can have Rosey in the present tense. Title: Seventeenth Summer Author: Maureen Daly Summary: Angie Marrow is headed for college and doesn't have time for love, but charming Jack Deluth makes it hard to say no and, for the first time, Angie wants to say yes. Title: Sloppy Firsts Author: Megan McCafferty Summary: Jessica is all messed up: her best friend moved away, her mother is obsessed with her sisters wedding, her father is obsessed with her track career, shes falling in love with a dreg, and to make things worse, she cant sleep. Sequel: Second Helpings Title: Son of the Mob Author: Gordon Korman Summary: Vince tries not to get involved in the family business, but he finds it unavoidable when he starts dating the daughter of the FBI agent investigating his Mafia boss father. Title: Song in the Silence Author: Elizabeth Kerner Summary: Lanen dreams of dragons and takes the dangerous journey to Dragon Isle in search of them, only to fall into an unexpected and forbidden love with Akor, the wondrous silver King of the Dragons. First in series. Title: Song of the Buffalo Boy Author: Sherry Garland Summary: Loi, a half Vietnamese/half American girl, runs away with her true love to Ho Chi Minh City, but she is separated from him and must survive alone in the city. Title: Sorcery and Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Author: Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer Summary: Cecelia and Kate, best friends and cousins, are separated for the London Season, but both soon stumble onto a mystery involving enigmatic wizards, a vengeful witch, an enchantingly beautiful girl, two handsome (but horrible!) young men, and a very curious chocolate pot. Title: Summers at Castle Auburn Author: Sharon Shinn Summary: Corrie, the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman, is caught between the honest world of her herbalist grandmother and the privileged world of her father, where she learns the price of misplaced love and loyalty. Title: Sweetgrass Author: Jan Hudson Summary: The young Blackfoot girl, Sweetgrass, longs to marry Eagle-Sun and become a woman of her tribe  but her disapproving father, an epidemic, enemy tribes, and disastrous encounters with white settlers, could keep them apart. Title: The Beduins Gazelle Author: Frances Temple Summary: At his uncles urging, Atiyah leaves his Bedouin tribe to study at the university of Fez, but when he learns that his betrothed has been lost in a sandstorm and is now the captive bride of an enemy, he rushes to the rescue. Title: The Black Book: Diaries of a Teenage Stud Author: Jonah Black Summary: Jonah Black is torn between his obsessions: Sophie, a girl connected to his recent boarding school dismissal, Posie, a childhood pal who grew into a beauty while he was away, and a mysterious cyber-love, who seems to know too much about him. Title: The Blue Castle Author: L. M. Montgomery Summary: Valency Stirling wants more out of life than her strict family allows her and when diagnosed with a fatal heart condition, finds the courage to defy them and look for love in unexpected places. Title: The First Part Last Author: Angela Johnson Summary: Bobby loves Nia, but when she tells him shes pregnant, their lives will change forever. Title: The Ivy Tree Author: Mary Stewert Summary: Mary Gray accepts a job impersonating the heiress, Annabel Winslow, and fits into Annabels life almost too perfectly until an unknown lover from Annabels past returns to reclaim his lost love. Title: The Princess Bride Author: William Goldberg Summary: True Love. Drunken Swordsmen. Giants. Evil Princes. Dread Pirates. Rodents of Unusual Size. A Six-Fingered Man. Fencing. Poison. Revenge. Torture. Chases. Miracles (sort of). What more could you ask for? Title: The Princess Diaries Author: Meg Cabot Summary: Mia is shocked to discover she is a princess, but soon begins to find that her royal duties are not as challenging as being upfront with the boy she loves. Title: The Raging Quiet Author: Sherryl Jordan Summary: The sudden death of Marnies unwanted husband leaves her a wealthy widow, but also makes the townsfolk suspicious of her, especially when she befriends a local mad man. Title: The Road Home Author: Ellen Emerson White Summary: When Army nurse Rebecca Phillips returns home from the Vietnam War, she finds it difficult to adjust to life in Boston and to stop thinking about a young soldier who touched her heart. Title: The Second Bend in the River Author: Ann Rinaldi Summary: The daughter of white settlers, Rebecca grows closer to the great chief Tecumseh as she grows up, and must choose between a life among the Shawnee or a life among her own people. Title: These Old Shades Author: Georgette Heyer Summary: When the wicked Duke of Avon adopts a young page everyone assumes it is one of his whims, but the boy is actually a young woman with a mysterious past, and the Duke has plans for his new ward. Title: This Lullaby Author: Sara Dessen Summary: Remy doesn't believe in love  her mother's five marriages have dispelled any illusions she ever had about romance  but Dexter tempts her to believe the summer after she graduates high school. Title: Thwonk Author: Joan Bauer Summary: When Cupid suddenly appears offering either artistic, academic or romantic assistance, aspiring photographer A.J. McCreary has a hard time choosing between her art and handsome schoolmate, Peter Terris. Title: Time Enough For Drums Author: Ann Rinaldi Summary: Jemima Emerson longs for independence for her country and for herself, but she is forced to sit by as the Revolutionary War rages and learn lessons in proper behavior from John Reid, a Tory who may be more than he seems. Title: Timeless Love Author: Judith OBrien Summary: A magical locket sends Samantha back to 16th century England, where she encounters love and intrigue in the Tudor court. Title: Time-Travel Series Author: Caroline Cooney Summary: Annie adventures through time where, in the 1890s, she meets the Stratton family and falls in love with Hiram Stratton, but time and again they are torn apart. Title: Truth or Dairy and Wurst Case Senario Author: Catherine Clark Summary: After being dumped by her college-age boyfriend, senior Courtney Von Dragen Smith vows she will forget about Dave, get involved at school, and not date anyone until after graduation  but finds those promises difficult to keep. Title: Two Suns in the Sky Author: Miriam Bat-Ami Summary: Chris Cook lives a dull life in Oswego during the height of World War II, until she meets and falls in love with Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew living in the nearby Jewish refugee camp. Title: Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman Author: Louise Plummer Summary: Kate, six feet tall with thick glasses and a hefty IQ, is disgusted by romance novels with heroines who have tiny bodies and tiny brains, but when Richard returns from college, romance comes her way. Title: What My Mother Doesn't Know Author: Sonja Sones Summary: Sophie loves Dylans dark eyes, but what if cyber-chat friend, Chaz, or geeky Murphy, who she cant stop thinking about, is really her soul mate? Title: Wuthering Heights Author: Emily Bronte Summary: Heathcliff and Catherine love each other passionately, even obsessively, but class differences and their own jealous natures keep them apart. Title: Zazoo Author: Richard Mosher Summary: Zazoo, a Vietnamese girl raised in a small French village by her adopted grandfather, corresponds with a mysterious boy who inspires her curiosity about her Grand-Pierres work during World War II.