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The sisterhood of the travelling pants by Ann Brashares

coverIf you loved The sisterhood of the travelling pants by Ann Brashares try these other titles.

The opposite of chocolate by Julie Bertagna
It should never have happened; not to a girl like Sapphire Dean. But it did, she got pregnant. Besieged on all sides and faced with terrifying options, Sapphire must jump one way. But which? And how? Somehow, from this emotion, fear and excitement, Sapphire must find a way to take control of her life — and make the most agonizing and lonely of choices.
The Presence by Eve Bunting
Catherine is in sever shock and depression. She has lost her best friend in a tragic car accident. On a Christmas visit to her grandmother, a mysterious and handsome stranger approaches Catherine at her Grandmother’s church, who tells her he can channel the dead and can put her in touch with her lost friend. Though Catherine is wary of this stranger, he may be able to help her feelings of guilt or is he a product of Catherine’s distraught imagination?
coverFifteen love by Robert Corbet
Mia read somewhere that boys think about sex on average once very fifteen seconds, if this is true it is a real worry! Will is not sure what girls talk about and wishes he were a fly on the wall. A story of friendship and true love.
That summer by Sarah Dessen
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Mattie is given letters by a guest at a hotel in which she works. She promises to burn the letters, but when the guest is found dead the next day Mattie is now not so sure what to do. But Mattie has problems enough of her own, trying to decide her future - whether to become a writer and leave the small rural town she grew up in, be like her friend and settle for married life or lead an independent life like Ms Wilcox, her teacher and mentor. Slowly Mattie and the murdered woman’s stories begin to merge, creating a moving conclusion where Mattie finds the courage to make some very important decisions.
Losing Forever by Gayle Friesen
Normal life seems to be slipping away from Jes’s hands. Her mother is getting remarried and is preoccupied with a full church wedding, her best friend has fallen for a complete jerk, and to make matters worse Jes has to deal with her new gorgeous, smart and devious step sister Angela… could things for Jes get any worse?
As Cool as I Am by Pete Fromm
Lucy Diamond is racing at breakneck speed towards adulthood, caught between pending adulthood and the dread of leaving her tomboyish ways behind. Guarding her radiant heart with razor-edged wit and a toughness little more than skin-deep, she watches her mother, still young and unabashedly sexy, clings to her own dream of a youth she feels she’s missed. In a mother and daughter relationship full of tension, love and similarities, the Diamond girls are torn by their vulnerabilities and bound by their deep need for each other.
Nina: Adolescence by Amy Hassinger
At fifteen Nina is trapped in her parent’s grief over the accidental death of her baby brother. Eager to hold her family together, Nina decides to encourage her mother to return to her art studio and for Nina to model for a series of nude portraits. As the images go public-over her father’s objections - Nina will be forced to deal with her burgeoning sexuality in front of a large audience, and when the tension in the family reaches breaking point, the painting ‘Nina: Adolescence’ will provoke a situation that very well might be the engine of her destruction … or the catalyst that enables her family to finally surmount tragedy.
Mates, Dates, and inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins
Lucy has drawn the Wheel of Fortune card, signifying a new chapter and a turning point in her life. But a turning point is exactly what Lucy does not want. Everything is changing around her, and suddenly she is required to make all sorts of decisions. Everyone else knows what they want, her best friend Izzy has become friends with glamorous Nesta, and they both look sixteen but Lucy can only pass for fourteen. But then one day Lucy sees the most wonderful boy crossing the street and, suddenly things in her life begin to change.
coverThe Losers’ Club by Carol Jones
Hippy Harmony has dreadlocks and lives in an old train carriage, Candy is timid, fat and no taste in clothes and Anichka, is a princess liar with nice clothes and no grip on reality — so its bad enough they are all losers with no friends, but force them together to study weeds and throw in a gorgeous young man, you know there is going to be trouble…
Alice, I think by Susan Juby
Alice has life goals — nine to be precise — but nothing ever goes according to plan for this larger-than-life girl living in a way-too-small-town! Alice decides to record her problems in a journal - she has no friends, Linda, her enemy, wants to kill her, her mother wants her to wear hippy clothes, her father writes romance novels, her brother breeds tropical fish and her cousin Frank is a walking pharmaceutical company.
Sloppy firsts by Megan McCafferty
When Jessica Darling’s best friend Hope Weaver moves away, Jessica is devastated. How is she going to cope with the boy-shopping crazy girls at schools, her Dad’s obsession with her track meets, her mother salivating over big sister Bethany’s wedding, and her nonexistent love life? “Second Helpings” is the sequel, and follows Jessica’s social and emotional ordeal of her senior year at Pineville High.
coverAlly’s World: Angels, arguments and a furry merry Christmas by Karen McCombie
Nobody answered me, but I just had to check out their faces to see that something was badly wrong. And then I spotted her; or what was left of her. Rolf had chewed up our angel — then spat out lumps of her when he realized she wasn’t made out of marzipan or bread or dog food or anything else digestible.
Lots more titles in this series by the same author.
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boys’ school that has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed. But Francesca had not counted on the fierce loyalty of her new friends, or falling in love, or finding that its within her power to bring her family back together.
Melina’s Marchetta’s first novel was Looking for Alibrandi.
Something in the air by Jan Mark
Peggy is hearing strange noises in her head, like Morse code used during the Great War. Not sure what to do Peggy decides to confide in her favourite aunt, Stella, hoping she will be able to reassure and provide answers for Peggy. Instead Stella has a different uncharacteristic explanation for the noises. Perhaps the noises are a message from the past?
coverWinter by John Marsden
For twelve years Winter has been haunted. Her past, her memories, her feelings, will not leave her alone. And now, at sixteen, the time has come for her to act. Every journey begins with a single step. If winter is going to step into the future, she must first step into the past.
Black Taxi by James Moloney
Rosie Sinclair lives in the worst suburb ever, her mum’s a hairdresser, her best friend is an exotic dancer and her Grandfather, who is into a teensy bit of crime, has just got six months ‘inside’ for stealing. With her grandfather ‘inside’, Rosie is left with his black Mercedes — oldies with scandalous secrets, mobile phone trauma, even a giant teddy bear, and not to mention a missing diamond ring and TWO (count them) boys on her tail.
Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty
At Ashbury High, some of the teachers’ schemes are just as crazy as the students’. One of them is Year Ten’s ‘Joy of the envelope’ Pen-Pal Project. Best friends Cassie, Em, and Lydia are forced to write letters to three unknown boys at downtown Brooklyn High — where the kids are all psychopaths, drug-dealers, tattooed bunny-killers, etc Naturally, this leads to all-out war between the schools, plus secret meetings and some surprising snogging.
Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging: confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
The humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighbourhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.