K.I.S.S.I.N.G – Teen Love Stories, or Something Like That

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black.

When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow.

Forever by Judy Blume. 

Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.

The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen. 

During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie. 

The Pact: a love story by Jody Picoult. 

A teenage suicide pact between a pregnant girl and her boyfriend, both children of wealthy New England families. He shoots her, but fails to shoot himself and is charged with murder. At the trial he explains what made them do it.

This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith. 

Perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet online when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an e-mail about his pet pig, Wilbur. The two 17-year-olds strike up an e-mail relationship from opposite sides of the country and don't even know each other's first names. What's more, Ellie doesn't know Graham is a famous actor, and Graham doesn't know about the big secret in Ellie's family tree. When the relationship goes from online to in-person, they find out whether their relationship can be the real thing.

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Read 'Em And Weep! Teen Tearjerkers

Does Winter have you caught in a sea of tears?  Take a look at these teen tearjerkers to gain a little perspective on love and life.  All are located in the Teen Scene and are great reads for not only high schoolers but adults as well.

The Fault in our Stars
John Green
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.





Eleanor and Park
Rainbow Rowell

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.





Before I Die
Jenny Downham

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.








If I Stay
Gayle Forman

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.








Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.







 Code Name Verity
  Elizabeth Wein

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Get Out Your Hankie

Recently, a patron asked me for suggestions for a really sad love story.  She’d been going through a breakup with her boyfriend and wanted to read something that reflected what she was feeling.  So I set out to find some real weepers and came up with the following titles.  So have you Kleenex handy when you take these on, because you’re going to need them!

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller.

On assignment shooting the covered bridges in Iowa, photographer Robert Kincaid falls in love with Iowa native Francesca Johnson during four days of love, magic, and beauty.

Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff.

Eighty-four-year-old Lily Davis Woodward looks back at a turning point in her life, when she had to choose between her World War II soldier husband and the poor Italian immigrant planning the fireworks display to celebrate the soldiers' return.

Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas by James Patterson.

Kate Wilkerson found her perfect man at last, then one day, without explanation, he disappears leaving behind only a diary for her to read. The diary is written by a new mother for her baby son, Nicholas. Soon it becomes clear to Kate that the man who left is the husband and father in this young family

Atonement by Ian McEwan.

Three children lose their innocence--as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935--and their lives are changed forever.

P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern.

Holly has always depended on her husband's practical advice to keep her going and despairs when she loses him to brain cancer, until a package arrives filled with advice for carrying on with her life without her beloved husband.

Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare.

The classic play in which two children from warring families fall in love, with a tragic result.

Shadow Patriots by Lucia St. Clair Robson.

Her family torn between her parents' loyalist stance and her brother's decision to join Washington's forces, Philadelphia Quaker Kate Darby finds herself falling for a handsome major who is being sheltered in her home and turning spy for the patriot forces.

Love Story by Erich Segal.

A bittersweet contemporary love story chronicles the romance and marriage of Oliver Barrett, IV, a wealthy Harvard ice hockey player from a stuffy aristocratic family, and Jenny Cavilleri, a poor Radcliffe music student from a working class background.

Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier.

After Inman escapes from a war hospital in 1864 and starts walking to Cold Mountain, Ada struggles to save her mountain farm with the help of Ruby, an illiterate but efficient farmer.

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.

In Cairo, a man meets a married woman with whom he falls in love, but the war keeps them apart and destroys her while he, severely burned, lives to tell their story to a nurse caring for him in an abandoned Tuscan villa.

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