Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

1. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone

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Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself.

2. Things Change by Patrick Jones

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Sixteen-year-old Johanna, one of the best students in her class, develops a pssionate attachment for troubled seventeen-year-old Paul and finds her plans for the future changing in unexpected ways.

3. Guyaholic by Carolyn Mackler

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Vivienne Valentine, known as V to her friends, has a history of hooking up with a new guy every few days, but her latest boyfriend, Sam, seems to be different from her past relationships and when her feelings start to scare her, V makes a stupid mistake that destroys their relationship and sends V on a cross-country journey of self discovery. Selected List: Booktalk 2009 My Personal List Video list YA Non-Fiction YA Supernatural Books

4. Beastly by Alex Flinn

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A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

5. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

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After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

6. Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

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In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another.

7. Playing with Matches by Brian Katcher

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Desperate to improve his standing with the girls at Zummer High, Leon Sanders--a junior--seems to be making headway with his long-time crush Amy Green, but when he starts to get to know a social pariah named Melody Sanders, Leon begins to see beyond Melody's disfigurement.

8. Played by Dana Davidson

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Kylie Winship is overwhelmed by the attention she is getting from handsome Ian Striver; however, when the relationship begins to heat up, Kylie must decide whether to listen to her heart or her head.

9. Wild Roses by Deb Caletti

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In Washington State, seventeen-year-old Cassie learns about the good and bad sides of both love and genius while living with her mother and brilliant, yet disturbed, violinist stepfather and falling in love with a gifted young musician.

10. Inexcusable by Chris Lynch

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High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.

11. Breaking Up is Hard to Do by Lynda Sandoval

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A collection of four stories by women authors that explore the joys and sorrows of falling in and out of love.

12. Speak: 10th Anniversary Edition by Laurie Halse Anderson

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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

13. Dreamland (reissue) by Sarah Dessen

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After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.

14. Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn

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Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.

15. Diva by Alex Flinn

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Despite her mother's objections, sixteen-year-old Caitlin determines to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer by attending a performing arts school in Miami.

16. Touch by Francine Prose

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Ninth-grader Maisie’s concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance, and truth are tested to their limit after a school bus incident with the three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.

17. Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

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When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her older brother's best friend - Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," she longs to escape a life defined by her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom and striking emotion, The Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany and redemption.

18. Who Am I Without Him? by Sharon Flake

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Guys and girls get together, get played, and get real. Who Am I Without Him? is a Booklist Top Ten Romance Novel for Teens and is "breaking new and necessary ground"* in twelve short stories about guys and girls falling in and out of love and relationships, testing out waysto communicate with one another, respect each other&mdash and respect themselves. This is a complex, often humorous, and always on-point exploration of today's teensdetermined to find love and self-worth . . . any way they know how.

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February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness month, and these books written for young adults are stories, both long and short, that address this issue.