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Aaaah - true love. There really is nothing better to bring a smile to your face, a warm glow to your heart, and the belief that life is wonderful.But can you ignore your jealous rivals? With their underhanded tactics, two-faced scheming and inopportune ‘chance’ meetings – fully aware that love can be fragile! How dare they try to steal your true love away from you!!

Romance stories The princess diaries

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By Meg Cabot F CAB

Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise.

First, her mother announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then her father reveals that she is actually Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo. Princess of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance?

First book in thePrincess diaries

series.

Romance stories MishapsW

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By Nansi Kunze F KUN

Sometimes bad luck is more than coincidence. Pen O'Connell is, without a doubt, the unluckiest girl at Callindra Secondary College. And when Pen meets Sebastian, teenage genius, her luck takes yet another turn for the worst. Could the bizarre theory that's turned every teacher in the school against Sebastian explain why Pen is more likely to get a head injury than a hot date? Why does Pen's name strike terror into the heart of pop princess Sereena? And just how far will Pen go to get what she deserves?

Romance stories In the wings

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By Elsbeth Edgar F EDG

How can you dream of being an actor when you suffer from terrible stage fright?

Ella Jamison dreams of acting. But it’s an impossible dream when you suffer from stage fright. Stuck in the backstage crew for the school play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ella watches her friends and conceited new boy Sam tread the boards.

But first impressions can be deceiving. And help can arrive when you least expect it.

Romance stories BeautyW

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By Robin McKinley F MCK

When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside. However, when their father accepts hospitality from the elusive and magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise - to send one daughter to the Beast's castle, with no guarantee that she will be seen again.

Beauty accepts the challenge, and there begins an extraordinary story of magic and love that overcomes all boundaries.

Romance stories Flipped

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By Wendelin Van Draanen F VAN

The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort."

But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he's thinking there's more to her than meets the eye, she's thinking that he's not quite all he seemed.

Romance stories The pearl huntersW

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By Kim Wilkins F WIL

There it sat, gleaming softly. Small, but perfect. A symbol of purity and — for Alexandre — freedom. A pearl.

In the warm waters of the Indian Ocean Alexandre dives for pearls. When Constance Blackchurch arrives from England to search for her lost mother, Alexandre's world becomes a far more dangerous place...

Romance stories Who loves Lucy?

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By Moya Sayer-Jones F ABC

Lucy has just started to feel that she's got her very un-Brady-Bunch family figured out when her sister drops a bombshell- she's moving out of home. Suddenly Lucy's life is turned upside down.

Romance stories Princess BenW

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By Catherine Gilbert Murdoch F MUR

With her parents lost to assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia. Starved and miserable, locked in the castle's highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical arts. But Ben's private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat to her kingdom. Can Ben save the country and herself from foul tyranny?

Romance stories Clair de Lune

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By Cassandra Golds F GOL

Clair-de-Lune has lived all her life with her grandmother. Her mother, a great ballerina, died on stage when Clair-de-Lune was a baby. Clair-de-Lune has not uttered a word since.

After ballet one day, Clair-de-Lune meets Bonaventure (a talking dancer-mouse) who takes her to a mysterious monastery. There she meets the kindly monk Brother Inchamore and learns that it is only by being able to listen that you can learn to speak.

Romance stories The goldsmith’s daughterW

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By Tanya Landman F LAN

Itacate, a girl born during the last days of the Aztec empire, is destined for a life of submission and domestic drudgery. But when her father, a goldsmith, discovers her talent for his craft, she starts to work as his apprentice, a secret she must keep to protect the lives of herself and her family. But danger awaits as the Spanish invade the city. And when Itacate's work comes to the emperor's attention and she falls in love with a stranger, her situation is even more perilous. Can she change her destiny and survive in this harsh new world?

Romance stories The Visconti house

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By Elsbeth Edgar F EDG

Laura Horton pretends about a lot of things but she can’t pretend about her house, an old, rundown Italianate villa that rises in faded and dominating splendour above the small country town in which they live.

To everyone at school, Laura Horton’s just the girl from the haunted house. Everything changes with the arrival of Leon Murphy, a loner with a dark and tragic past. With Leon’s help, Laura discovers there is more to her house than meets the eye...

Romance stories Star-crossedW

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By Barbara Dee F Dee

12-year-old Mattie is thrilled when she learns the eighth-grade play will be Romeo and Juliet. In particular, she can't wait to share the stage with Gemma Braithwaite, who has been cast as Juliet. Gemma is brilliant, pretty and British! Mattie starts to see her as more than just a friend even though she has also had an on/off crush on her classmate Elijah since, well, forever. Is it possible to have a crush on both boys AND girls?

Romance stories Olive's ocean

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By Kevin Henkes F HEN

Martha and Olive could have been friends. After Olive is killed in a car accident, Olive’s mother gives her diary to Martha to read. Now, on their annual summer vacation by the sea, Martha can't stop thinking about Olive and what could have been.Things then only get more complicated, when Martha begins to like Jimmy Manning, a neighbour boy she used to despise. What is going on? Can life for Martha be the same ever again?

Romance stories The ordinary princessW

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By M.M. Kaye F KAY

Once upon a time, there was the most beautiful, extraordinary princess. At least, until the day of her christening, when a grumpy fairy placed a spell to make her ordinary! But Princess Amethyst Alexandra Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne (also known as Princess Amy) doesn't mind being ordinary - she gets to play in the woods, and run about to her heart's content!

But when she realises that her parents intend for her to marry a dreary prince, she must take matters into her own hands.

Romance stories Crushing it

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By Joanne Levy F LEV

Kat, a down-to-earth, self-conscious 12-year-old seventh-grader gets roped into wooing Tyler for her gorgeous and popular cousin, Olivia. Tyler, Kat's next-door neighbour and buddy since birth, morphed into a really cute boy over the summer. Suddenly the person Kat's used to playing Xbox with is causing her stomach to do cartwheels.As Kat slowly weaves her magic and Olivia has caught Tyler's attention, Kat has to wonder if she's fooled Tyler into falling for the wrong girl.

Romance stories Operation Pucker upW

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By Rachele Alpine F ALP

When Grace finds out she's been cast as the lead in her school play, she has about two seconds to celebrate before she realises that she will have to kiss Prince Charming, aka James Lowe, aka the heartthrob of Sloane Middle School...on the lips! She's never kissed a boy, especially not on stage!

So Grace's two best friends propose Operation Pucker Up - a plan for Grace to score a kiss before opening night so she doesn't make a fool of herself in front of an audience.

Romance stories Donut go breaking my heart

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By Suzanne Nelson F NEL

Sheyda is a behind-the-scenes girl who loves helping out in the kitchen of Doughlicious, the donut shop run by her best friend's family. When tween heartthrob Cabe Sadler is filming his next movie in Doughlicious, Sheyda's best friend auditions for a role and maybe a date with Cabe. But somehow it's Sheyda who gets picked for a small role in the film. To make matters worse, Cabe seems spoiled and rude. Can Sheyda overcome her stage fright, get to know the real Cabe, and keep her best friend?

Romance stories The (almost) perfect guide to imperfect boys

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By Barbara Dee F DEE

Finley and her best friend, Maya, divide middle school boys into three separate categories: tadpoles, croakers, and frogs - a frog is the top of the boy food chain - evolved and mature and if kissed may turn into a prince!Very few boys have reached the elusive frog status at Staunton Middle School. And when their list falls into the wrong hands, causing a battle between the boys and girls, it turns into an all-out war - one that Finley isn't sure anyone can really win...

Romance stories Never evers

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By Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison F IVI

Kicked out of ballet academy and straight into a school ski trip, Mouse knows certain classmates can't wait to see her fall flat on her face. Meanwhile, Jack looks forward to danger and girls, but hasn't a clue about either. That's until French teen sensation Roland arrives in the resort - who Jack is a dead ringer for. When Roland persuades Jack to be his stand-in for a day, Jack, in disguise, declares his feelings for Mouse. But what happens when he's no longer a pop star - will it be music and magic on the slopes?

Romance stories TitleW

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By Author F ABC

Blurb

First book in theSERIES series.

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First book in theSERIES series.

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First book in theSERIES series.

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First book in theSERIES series.