Chick Lit
Spring 2008

A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.

In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea after seeing her beloved Jaimy with another woman; however, her life takes a dramatic turn when she and her shipmates take command of the ship and she is accused of piracy.

At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones.

Tells the true story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.

Three girls at a posh boarding school plot revenge against their evil stepmothers.

Darius, a professor, and Sophia, head of membership at an art museum, say goodbye to their daughters one morning, not realizing that by evening their world will have changed, with Miranda meeting a man who will take her away from them, and Helen being involved in a terrible traffic accident that leaves her in a coma.

While on a field trip, five outcasts--who normally never participate in school activities--are transported to a different dimension and must try to return to reality.

In a government class three popular girls undergo a mock trial for their ruthless bullying of a classmate.

After moving from Chicago to Dallas in the spring of her sophomore year, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that joining the softball team at her private school not only helps her make friends, it also provides unexpected opportunities to learn and grow.

After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self-esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is.

In 2036 kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when thirteen-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems.

Alice Winston is left to help support the family business by boarding the horses of their rich neighbors when her older sister runs away and her parents are no longer able to provide for the family.

After Raquel is killed in a car accident, her fellow classmates, friends, and family members, as well as the woman responsible for her death, reflect on Raquel's life and how her passing has changed their own lives.

In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, has her world view challenged when she meets Peter and discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

Nina Goldman, growing up in Akron, Ohio, in the 1970s, struggles to overcome the feelings of inferiority caused by the birthmark that covers one of her eyes, but she is helped along by her loving mom and larger-than-life father, and when a treatment is found that could remove the mark, Nina is conflicted about whether to go forward.

Fourteen-year-old Gemma Stone struggles to understand her shifting emotions as she gets caught up in her older sister's wedding plans, conquers her nerves to try out for the school play, and gets to know one of the most notorious boys in her class.

Jordan's life takes a surreal turn when her ex-boyfriend Michael, who died two days earlier, shows up outside her window begging to be let in, and even though she knows it would mean her own destruction, she is very, very tempted, especially when he keeps coming back, night after night.

As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.

High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

Sixteen-year-old Giselle, who has buried herself in her dance studies and thoughts of her late father for a decade, comes to terms with her relationship with her famous ballerina mother and newly surfaced memories of her father's abuse when she ventures out of the world of the Manhattan elite and meets a charming boy named Will.

Melly and Anny Beth agree to participate in Project Turnabout, a scientific experiment in which they are given a shot that will make them grow younger, until they receive a second injection that will stop the aging process, but when other participants die after receiving the second shot, Melly and Anny Beth refuse to have the shot and set out to find someone to care for them when they are too young to do it themselves.

In 1899 Manhattan, the drowning of beautiful Elizabeth Holland, daughter of New York society's ruling family, brings to the surface the scandalous behavior of several teenagers of varying social class.

When a mysterious person called the Fox begins to threaten young starlets, Lulu Dark investigates, even though she suspects that her own mother--an aging actress--might be behind it all.

Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.

Anna Bloom, confined to a mental hospital by her parents who do not know how to deal with her depression and panic attacks, writes letters to her best friend Tracy sharing the funny details of her life and the people she is getting to know at Lakeland.

Living with her Israeli father in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Amy Nelson-Barak feels like a walking disaster, worried about her boyfriend in the Israeli army; her mother, new stepfather, and the baby they are expecting; and a classmate named Nathan who has moved into her apartment building and says she is a snob.

High-school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy.

Teenage Lucy learns about life and love with the help of her friends and saucy Tante Pearl over the course of one hot Louisiana summer before her senior year of high school.

When teenagers Sue Hua, who is Chinese American, and Andy Suzuki, who is Japanese American, start dating they think they have a lot in common, but once their families find out about their relationship and tell them their opinions, they begin to question if they should be together.

When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occurring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.

Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.

Indigo Summer must prove she can withstand the pressure when her boyfriend Marcus is arrested for a crime he did not commit, she tries to lose weight in order to keep her spot on the dance team, and her best friend Jade moves back to Atlanta and becomes involved with their good-looking history teacher.

Conflicts arise when fifteen-year-old Chloe Miller and her fellow band members are discovered by a talent scout from Nashville and are invited to record and tour.

Tired of always coming in second, high school sophomore Cassie Howard tries everything to get a date with the hottest new boy in school, Kevin Matthews, before her nemesis, Sterling Carter, does.

Seventeen-year-old best friends Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer.

Mimi Schulman moves to New York after her parent's divorce, but climbing the social ladder at the upscale Baldwin School along side offspring of diplomats and celebrities who have more problems that she has, proves to be more challenging that Mimi expected.

Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world.

High school student Andrea Anderson has always been content watching life from the sidelines, but when she begins a new job helping her reclusive neighbor, Andrea is forced to rethink everything she believes in and take a more active role in the world around her.

Tom, who bears a striking resemblance to Prince George and has spent his life impersonating him, plans on using the school ski trip as his opportunity to gain the attention of Louise, the only girl not interested in him, but things go wrong when the royal heir shows up at the resort and he is forced to face who he really is.

Jennifer Harris, years after being the tormented outsider on the playground, has reinvented herself into Jenna Vaughn, a popular girl with what seems to be the perfect life, but when a childhood friend re-enters her life, she is forced to confront the most traumatic event of her past and question who she really is.

Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is just settling in at the House of Night, a finishing school dedicated to training fledgling vampyres to become productive adults, when a series of murders targeting human teens is traced back to the school, forcing her to think about the connections that still exist between her old and new worlds.

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

During her freshman year of high school, Harley decides she is not related to her abusive father and angry mother and embarks on a journey to find her real parents.

Sisters Kalia and Mariama Jefferson do not agree on much, but when an "American Idol" style singing competition is announced they both know Kalia should enter, not realizing the strain the contest is going to put on everyone involved.

Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could change her life forever.

After a breakup with her boyfriend, school newspaper features editor Jen Lewis receives a book from her grandmother that provides basic commandments for getting over an ex and sets out to recover from the loss of the romance.

Four students, who have formed a study group to prepare for the SAT exam, sustain each other through the emotional highs and lows of their junior year in high school.

Saranja, Maja, and Ribek must outwit the Watchers, twenty-four of the empire's most powerful and evil magicians, while seeking the Ropemaker to restore the ancient magic that will protect their valley.

Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her mentally ill birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters and still wants to kill Frances.

When Sam asks Alison to the Valentine's Dance she is elated, until she finds out that her best friend Isabella also likes Sam and Izzy only has three months to live.

In her last semester at a private school in Fort Myers, Florida, seventeen-year-old Dom finds her life transformed by her first boyfriend, Wes, a track star at the public school her best friend attends.