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SERIES:

Summer Boys series
Summer Boys; Next Summer
By Hailey Abbot (YA ABBOT) 214p HS
Cousins Ella, Beth, and Jamie are at their family’s beach house getting ready for a wild, hot, summer.

Private series
Private;
By Kate Brian (YA BRIAN) 240p HS
When Reed scores a scholarship to the prestigious Easton Academy, she’s determined to do anything to become one of the Billings Girls.

Party Room series
Get It Started; Party Room; Last Call
By Morgan Burke (YA BURKE) 247p HS
On Manhattan's Upper East Side. Everybody's fabulous. No one gets carded. Then someone dies.

The A-List series
A-List; Girls on Film; Blonde Ambition; Tall Cool One;
Back in Black; Some Like It Hot
By Zoey Dean (YA DEAN) 243p HS
Read all about the powerful, rich and beautiful teens of Beverley Hills High.

The Au Pairs series
Au Pairs; Skinny Dipping; Sun-Kissed
By Melissa de la Cruz (YA DE LA CRUZ) 288p HS
Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family.

LBD series
LBD: It’s a Girl Thing; LBD: Live & Fabulous
By Grace Dent (YA DENT) 192p MS/HS
Fleur, Claude, and Ronnie, Les Bambinos Dangereuse, make things happen.

The Clique series
The Clique; Best Friends Forever; Revenge of the Wannabes; Invasion of the Boysnatchers; Pretty Committee Strikes Back; Dial L for Loser;
By Lisi Harrison (YA HARRISON) 224p MS/HS
Privileged Massie does her best to keep middle class Claire out of her Clique.

Boys Over Flowers Series (manga)
By Yoko Kamio (YA GRAPHIC KAMIO) 216p HS
Because she stood up to the F4 gang, Tsukushi is now a celebrity. But not everyone has joined her fan club.

Lulu Dark series
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls; Lulu Dark & the Summer of the Fox
By Bennett Madison (YA MADISON) 248p MS/HS
Lulu is the anti-Nancy Drew, but she still has a mystery to solve.

Nannies series
The Nannies; Nannies: Friends with Benefits
By Melody Mayer (YA MAYER) 274p HS
Kiley, Esme and Lydia, three nannies from wildly different backgrounds, try to navigate their way through the wealthy wonderland of Beverly Hills and balance work with romance.

The Insiders Series
The Insiders; Pass It On; Take It Off; Break Every Rule; Hold On Tight
By J.M. Minter (YA MINTER) 250p HS
A look into the privileged, turbulent world of 5 guys in Manhattan’s trendiest neighborhood.

The Calypso Chronicles
Pulling Princes; Dueling Princes; Stealing Princes
By Tyne O’Connell (YA OCONNELL) 221p HS
California teen, Calypso, invents a boyfriend to become more popular at her English boarding school. But, what happens when she starts to fall for a real live prince?

Silver Beach Series
Summer Love; Summer Lies; Summer Promises
By Diane Schwemm (YA SCHWEMM) 217p HS
Elli, Eli, Charlotte & Sam. Talk about your tangled love!

The Dating Game series
The Dating Game; Breaking Up is Really, Really Hard to Do; Can True Love Survive High School; Ex-Rating; Speed Dating; Parallel Parking
By Natalie Standiford (YA STANDIFORD) 224p HS
3 teen girls gain notice when they create a Dating Game website.

The O.C. series
The Misfit; Bait & Switch; Spring Break; The Outsider; The Way Back; The Summer of Summer
By Various authors (check catalog for call #s) 194p HS
The television series novelized.

The It Girl series
The It Girl; Notorious; Reckless;
By Cecily von Ziegesar (YA VON ZIEGESAR) 264p HS
Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard to attend Waverly Academy, in New York.

Can’t Lose You series (manga)
By Wann (YA GRAPHIC WANN) 192p HS
2 girls. Totally different lives. Totally identical faces. What happens when they switch identities?

Seven Deadly Sins series
Lust; Envy; Pride;
By Robin Wasserman (YA WASSERMAN) 304p HS
In the first of the series, everyone is lusting for everyone else.

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INDIVIDUAL TITLES :

Cruel Summer
By Kylie Adams (YA ADAMS) 240p HS
One gorgeous “celebutante.” One hip-hop dreamer. One Hollywood bad boy. One anime-obsessed Latina. One British hottie.... all living the highlife in sexy South Beach, Miami.

Confessions of a Teen Nanny
By Victoria Ashton (YA ASHTON) 198p HS
2 teen nannies enjoy the fringe benefits of working for Manhattan’s elite, but at what cost?

Sweet 16
By Kate Brian (YA BRIAN) 272p HS
The most obnoxiously rich, decadent snobby Teagan is turning 16. While her party doesn't go quite like she planned, she certainly doesn't expect to meet some fairy godmother in her wine cellar, telling her to get her act together!

Prep
By Jake Coburn (YA COBURN) 182p HS
Nick has left the preppy-gang life. Now he must return to help the girl he loves.

Blue Bloods
By Melissa de la Cruz (YA DE LA CRUZ) 320p HS
At the age of 15, something is changing in Schuyler. She is craving raw meat, having nightmares about events in history, and developing prominent blue veins in her arms. Then she discovers she is a member of the Blue Bloods, a distinguished family of reincarnated vampires.

South Beach
By Amy Friedman (YA FRIEDMAN) 318p HS
Spring break at South Beach!

Pretty Little Devils
By Nancy Holder (YA HOLDER) 256p HS
Hazel is dazzled when Sylvia, the leader of the popular girls’ clique the Pretty Little Devils, brings her into the inner circle. Everything is looking up for Hazel, until some of her classmates are discovered brutally murdered.

Confessions of a Not It Girl
By Melissa Kantor (YA KANTOR) 247p HS
“Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.”

Life as a Poser
By Beth Killian (YA KILLIAN) 256p HS
Eva heads to L.A. to become a star & to get to know her mom. But, when she gets stuck rooming w/ a bunch of snotty starlets & her mom doesn’t even want to admit she exists, Eva has to rethink her life.

Bittersweet Sixteen
By Carrie Karasyov (YA KARASYOV) 240p HS
Laura Finnegan must compete with the sophomore girls of the posh Tate Academy for the most extravagant Sweet Sixteen party ever.

Twelve
By Nick McDonell (FIC MCDONELL) 244p HS
Over-privileged, alienated teens on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

The Nanny Diaries
By Emma McLaughlin (FIC MCLAUGHLIN) 306p HS
A job as a nanny becomes a nearly impossible mission to maintain the mental health of her charge, as well as her own integrity--and sanity.

The Rise & Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber
All Q, No A: More Tales of a 10th Grade Social Climber
By Lauren Mechling (YA MECHLING) 290p HS
Mimi risks losing herself trying to befriend the popular kids at her new, trendy, Manhattan school.

Art Geeks & Prom Queens
By Alyson Noel (YA NOEL) 226p HS
Rio Jones has no clue how she's going to fit in at her fancy new private school in Southern California. She's thrilled when the school's queen bee befriends her--until she realizes that Kristi's not one to cross.

Faking 19
By Alyson Noel (YA NOEL) 210p HS
Bored with their suburban high school lives, Alex and M. decide to check out L.A.’s club scene, but will they be drawn too far in?

Laguna Cove
By Alyson Noel (YA NOEL) 224p HS
Anne hates the surfer-hippie social scene on her new coast, until the most gorgeous guy in school teachers her to surf. Which makes her the #1 enemy of Ellie – queen of the social scene. Watch out for the sparks!

The Ruling Class
By Francine Pascal (YA PASCAL) 176p HS
At Highland Park, the Ruling Class clique runs everything in their spectactularly cruel way. And no one questions them. Until Twyla Gay Stark moves to town.

Glamorous Disasters
By Eliot Schrefer (FIC SCHREFER) 336p HS
Noah thinks he has it made tutoring rich high school kids for $395 an hour to pay off his Princeton loans. But then he meets the Thayer family.

Honey Blonde Chica
By Michele Serros (YA SERROS) 304p HS
Evie hangs out w/ the Flojos & keeps away from the Sangros. But, when her former best friend moves back & hooks up w/ the Sangros, will Evie be forced to choose?

Pool Boy
By Michael Simmons (YA SIMMONS) 192p MS/HS
Newly poor Brett takes a job as an asst. pool boy in a wealthy Californian neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.

Prep
By Curtis Sittenfeld (YA SITTENFELD) 406p HS
An accurate picture of adolescence as an unlovely mix of utter cluelessness, extreme sensitivity and untempered drives.

Everyone Worth Knowing
By Lauren Weisberger (FIC WEISBERGER) 367p HS
Bette leaves her Manhattan bank job to work at one of the hottest PR and event-planning firms in New York.

So Super Starry
By Rose Wilkins (YA WILKINS) 230p HS
Octavia always took pride in being an outsider among the teen celebrity “Darlings” until she falls for the son of a rock star.

MS = Most appropriate for middle schoolers
MS/HS = Most appropriate for middle/high schoolers
HS = Most appropriate for high schoolers

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