Chick Lit Books

• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. 2001.
  Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants. (#! In series)
  
  
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. 2003.
  After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. (#1 in trilogy)
  
  
• Airhead by Meg Cabot. 2008.
  Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
  
  
• Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely by Melody Carlson. 2004.
  Two sophomore girls, best friends since kindergarten, grow apart when one wants new friends and decides the other is a popularity liability. (#1 in Truecolors series)
  
  
• Before I Die by Jenny Downham. 2007.
  A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
  
  
• The A-List by Zoey Dean. 2003.
  Seventeen-year-old blueblood Anna Percy leaves Manhattan to spend the second half of her senior year with her father in Los Angeles and quickly becomes involved in the lives of the rich and famous at Beverly Hills High School. (#1 in A-List series)
  
  
• The Au Pairs by Melissa de la Cruz. 2004.
  Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family, and in spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better. (#1 in the Au Pairs series)
  
  
• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen. 2006.
  Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
  
  
• The Clique by Lisi Harrison. 2004.
  Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle class Claire, the daughter of her father's old friend, from her seventh-grade clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes back. (#1 in Clique series)
  
  
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins. 2007.
  Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
  
  
• If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? Melissa Kantor. 2005.
  When the father of high school sophomore, Lucy Norton, remarries, Lucy finds herself tormented by two bratty stepsisters and a wicked stepmother.
  
  
• Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. 2006.
  When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets. (#1 of series)
  
  
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. 2000.
  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 School forever.
  
  
• Confessions of a Serial Kisser by Wendelin Van Draanen. 2008.
  After reading her mother's secret collection of romance novels during her parent's difficult separation, seventeen-year-old Evangeline Logan begins a quest for the perfect kiss.
  
  
• Prom Nights From Hell: Short Stories by various authors. 2007.
  Horror stories by some of teens’ favorite authors: The Exterminator's Daughter by Meg Cabot; The Corsage by Lauren Myracle; Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper by Kim Harrison; Kiss and Tell by Michele Jaffe; Hell on Earth by Stephenie Meyer.
  
  
• Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr. 2007.
  In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.