*Berg, Elizabeth. Joy School. 1997.
A young woman falls in love and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy.

*Cormier, Robert. Tenderness. 1998.
Eric Poole, an 18 year old convicted murderer, has just been released from juvenile detention. Lori Cranston, 15, is fascinated by him and wants to know him better. Will either find the tenderness they long for?

*Crutcher, Chris. Running Loose. 1986.
Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures.

*Fields, Terri. Hearts Don’t Lie. 1986.
Michelle is so sure Steve will go back to his old girlfriend that she accepts a date with someone else. Now she wonders if she destroyed her only chance at love.

*Hart, Bruce. Sooner or Later. 1978.
Romantic thirteen year old Jessie spots Michael and his band playing at the mall. She is shy and nervous; he is handsome, charming, and older. She is ready for first love, and he is ready for her.

Hawes, Louise. Rosey in the Present Tense. 1999.
When Rosey dies, Franklin is left longing for her and is stunned to discover her visiting him as a ghost—or is she? No one seems to believe him, and his psychiatrist encourages him to write his journals about her in the past tense in order to let go. Will he be able to forget her? Should he?

Jones, Diana Wynne. Castle in the Air.
Abdullah thinks all of his dreams have come true when his newly-purchased threadbare rug turns out to be a magic carpet. Perfection is shattered when the love of his dreams in kidnapped. Can he get her back?

*Jordan, Sherryl. The Raging Quiet. 1999.
Marnie, 15, is wed to a man twice her age. When he dies shortly after they arrive in a new town, suspicions are aroused. When she befriends the supposedly crazy boy, "Raver," the townspeople try her for a witch. But Marnie really knows the true nature of their relationship, and the secret that makes Raver appear insane to all around him.

*Klause, Annette. Blood and Chocolate.
Werewolf Vivian relishes the sweet, fierce ache that changes her from a girl to a wolf. At 16, she’s beautiful and strong, but falling in love with a human casts her between two worlds.

*Klause, Annette. The Silver Kiss. 1992.
One evening, when 17-year-old Zo is sitting in the park contemplating her mother's imminent death due to cancer, her father's lack of support, and her best friend's move, she meets Simon. Simon is startlingly handsome and strangely compelling. As their friendship grows over time, Simon reveals to Zo his true identity: he is a vampire, trying to kill his younger vampire brother.

*Lyon, George Ella. With a Hammer for My Heart: A Novel. 1996.
Lawanda meets Garland and they fall in love, despite criticism from just about everyone.

*Mahy, Margaret. The Catalogue of the Universe. 1985.
Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, 18 year old Angela embarks on a journey that shapes her and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.

*McDaniel, Lurlene. I’ll Be Seeing You. 1996.
Carley, whose face has been disfigured by cancer surgery, meets Kyle when he is in the hospital recovering from an accident that has left him temporarily blind. While she wants the best for her new friend, she is worried about what will happen to their relationship when his sight is restored.

*Napoli, Donna Jo. Sirena.
Seventeen year-old Sirena can ensure her immortality if a mortal man mates with her. Horrified by the idea of singing a man to his death, she isolates herself on a remote island. But she doesn’t count on the arrival of Philoctetes and all the joy he brings her.

*Plummer, Louise. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman.
Kate falls in love for the first time with her brother’s best friend, who is visiting from college during Christmas vacation. Unfortunately, so is his girlfriend. As Kate writes her own romance novel, she tries to figure out her own romantic life. A funny story about the confusion of falling in love.

*Rylant, Cynthia. A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories About Love. 1990.
Eight short stories in which a variety of special characters experience the transfiguring power of love.

Stoehr, Shelley. Tomorrow, Wendy: A Love Story.
Cary is dating Danny, whom most of her friends would kill to go out with. Imagine her confusion when she discovers she’s really in love with Danny’s sister Wendy.

*Thomas, Joyce. Water Girl. 1986.
A teenager’s search for the roots of her heritage—and the way of her heart.

*Thomas, Rob. Rats Saw God. 1996.
Steve Young has left Texas to live with his mother in San Diego, and his reasons for starting his life over are a mystery to the reader—until Steve begins to write the story of his life to make up and English credit. It’s then that the reasons for his new beginning become clear—and the mystery of the life he left behind –are revealed.

*Woodson, Jacqueline. If You Come Softly. 1999.
Miah and Ellie try to avoid the stares when they hold hands in public. Miah is never allowed to forget he’s Black and she’s white—not by her parents or his own. And especially not be judgemental, unforgiving strangers…

*Youmans, Marly. Little Jordan. 1995.
Meg’s thirteenth summer begins with the disappearance of a small child in her neighborhood. When she discovers the girl’s body in the creek, her vision of the ideal life she leads changes dramatically, but she avoids being scarred by her experience when she falls in love with her neighbor.