Love & Romance Stories
Mt. Baker Middle School Library
May,
2004
F AND.
Anderson, Mary, 1929-. The unsinkable Molly Malone. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1991. Sixteen-year-old Molly, a socially conscious, struggling artist living in New York, befriends a group of children living in a welfare hotel and, incidentally, falls in love with a mysterious young man.
F Bau.
Bauer, Joan, 1951-. Squashed. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell. Books for Young Readers, c1992, 1994. As a sixteen-year-old pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.
F BAU.
Bauer, Joan, 1951-. Thwonk. New York : Delacorte Press : Laurel Leaf, c1995. A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J, a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
F Dan.
Danziger, Paula, 1944-. Remember me to Harold Square. New York : Dell, 1988, c1987. When Frank spends the summer with Kendra and her family in their New York City apartment, a friendship develops as the two teenagers set off on a scavenger hunt exploring the city's museums, restaurants and other landmarks.
F DEC.
DeClements, Barthe. How do you lose those ninth grade blues? : a novel. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Puffin Books, 1993. Though no longer a fat girl, Elsie, now fifteen, still has trouble believing anyone could love her and that old fear threatens her relationship with her boyfriend.
F DUM.
Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame, 1907-. Rebecca. New York : Avon Books, [1971], c1938. The second Mrs. Maxim de Winter finds it difficult and frightening to live in the shadow of her predecessor, a situation that is exacerbated by her husband's moodiness, and the presence of sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
F Gar.
Garland, Sherry. Song of the buffalo boy. San Diego : Harcourt Brace $ Co., c1992. Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her American father.
F Gil.
Gilmore, Kate. Enter three witches. New York : Scholastic,.1992, c1990. Bren is fearful of having the girl of his dreams meet his family of witches, but after a school production of Macbeth which is attended by his family who cause startling effects, he realizes a meeting has already taken place.
F HAH.
Hahn, Mary Downing. The wind blows backward. New York : Clarion Books : Avon Flare, c1993. Although they share a love of poetry and problems with their parents, a shy high school senior's attraction to a popular classmate is tempered by her fear of his moody, self-destructive side.
F Ker.
Kerr, M. E. Gentlehands. New York, N.Y. : HarperKeypoint, 1990, c1978. A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.
F KIN.
Kindl, Patrice. Owl in love. (New York) : Puffin, (1993?). A fourteen-year-old girl, who can transform herself into an owl at will, discovers interesting new relationships with both humans and owls when she develops a crush on her science teacher.
F Kla.
Klause, Annette Curtis. The silver kiss. New York : Delacorte Press : Dell, 1990. .A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps to come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.
F LEM.
LeMieux, A.C. (Anne Connelly). Do angels sing the blues? New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, 1996. A teenage boy sees his best friend and fellow band member begin a relationship with a girl who consistently lies and drinks too much.
F MCK.
McKinley, Robin. Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast. New York : HarperTrophy, 1993, c1978. Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
F Mye.
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Motown and Didi : a love story. New York : Dell, 1987, c1984. Motown and Didi, two teenage loners in Harlem, become allies in a fight against Touchy, the drug dealer whose dope is destroying Didi's brother, and find themselves falling in love with each other.
F STI.
Stine, R. L. How I broke up with Ernie. New York : Pocket Books, c1990. When Amy breaks up with Ernie, she realizes it will be hard. But Ernie still does not stop coming around, either. How will she ever get rid of him?
F Wes.
Westall, Robert. The promise. New York : Scholastic Inc., 1991, c1990. After his sort-of-girlfriend dies, teen-aged Bob is shocked to discover that their love was stronger than he thought, even strong enough to transcend death.
F WIT.
Wittlinger, Ellen. Lombardo's law. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993. A fifteen-year-old girl and her new thirteen-year-old male neighbor find their friendship deepening into a romance as they work on writing and filming a screenplay together.
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