F Romeo & Juliet–Together (& Alive) at Last by Avi
Avi A middle grade production of Romeo and Juliet turns into an occasion for a first, funny love.
F Thwonk, by Joan Bauer
Bau A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
F Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Bro In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
F Karen Kepplewhite Is the World's Best Kisser by Eve Bunting,
Bun In this breezy romance, the subject of kissing weighs heavily on the seventh-grade heroine's mind.
F Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover by Betsy Byars
Bya Bingo finds there is both an up side and a down side to being the long distance lover of his girlfriend, Melissa, who casts Bingo in the role of her favorite book hero–the dashing Romondo.
F Tom Loves Anna Loves Tom by Bruce Clements
Cle When Anna comes to Brandford to stay with her ailing aunt, she meets Tom and they fall in love. But, Anna has a secret she won't tell Tom.
F What I Did for Roman by Pam Conrad
Con With her mother away on a honeymoon in Europe, 15-year-old Darcie spends her summer searching for her father and falling in love with a zookeeper who leads her into a test with death.
F The Girl Who Invented Romance, by Caroline B. Cooney
Coo While waiting for her first big romance and observing the sometimes rocky love affairs of her parents and brother, sixteen-year-old Kelly develops a board game called Romance.
F Gemini 7 by Jordan Cray
Cra When the dream girl he meets on the Internet shows up as a real person, Jonah watches his totally exciting other life turn into a nightmare.
F Children of the River by Linda Crew
Cre Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
F Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Cru In his senior year of high school Louis has good friends, a starting spot on the football team, and a terrific girlfriend, Becky. Maybe it was too good to last.
F Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
Dal Angie Morrow can't believe a popular boy like Jack Duluth would go for a girl like her. As the summer passes, Angie experiences a range of emotions and doubts concerning her romance with Jack.
F Remember Me To Harold Square by Paula Danziger
Dan In a love song to New York, two teenagers get thrown together for a summer in the city.
F Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
DuM With a husband she barely knows, the young bride arrives at an immense estate, only to be drawn into the life of her husband's first wife, the beautiful Rebecca–dead but never forgotten.
F Becca's Story by James D. Forman
For A Civil War romance concerning a Michigan girl and the two soldiers who are rivals for her hand.
F Will You Be My Brussels Sprout? By Lucy Frank
Fra An aspiring sixteen-year-old cellist falls in love with her friend's older brother and finds that the relationship is moving too quickly.
F Jason and the Bard by Kate Gilmore
Gil Jason's summer spent working at a Shakespearean festival with five other teenagers is a time of personal growth, friendship, and romance.
F Fickle Fever by Christi Killian
Kil After Skeeter breaks up with her boyfriend of three weeks, she falls in and out of love and wonders at her fickleness and the nature of love.
F Loving Two Is Hard To Do by Linda Lewis,
Lew Linda and Lennie have been going together for three years, but, while working at a summer resort, Linda meets Dave Balen, and things get complicated.
F Your Move, J.P. by Lois Lowry
Low Twelve-year-old J.P. is in love for the very first time, and why not? Angela has small pink ears, golden hair, and teeth like pearls.
F Anastasia at This Address by Lois Lowry
Low Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
F The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Patricia MacLachlan
Mac An eleven-year-old cellist learns about life from her eccentric family, her first boyfriend, and Mozart.
F Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
Mon Pretty, high-spirited Rilla is looking forward to her first dance and her first kiss. But then the happy world of Ingleside is endangered by a far-off war.
F Ethan Between Us by Anna Myers
Mye In an Oklahoma oil drilling camp in 1960, fifteen-year-old Clare finds her relationship with her best friend threatened by her new romance with Ethan, a boy carrying a dark secret.
F Achingly Alice, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Nay Thirteen year-old Alice sets long- and short-term priorities for her life as she experiences the complexities of young love.
F Those Summer Girls I Never Met by Richard Peck
Pec Drew, 16, reluctantly takes a Baltic cruise with his grandmother and has a shipboard romance.
F The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman, by Louise Plummer
Plu Kate writes her own romance novel about her real romance with a great-looking guy, using the Romance Writer's Phrase Book as her guide.
F Revolutions of the Heart by Marsha Qualey
Qua Cory's seventeenth year is marked by her mother's sudden death, the return of her hotheaded older brother, her romance with a Native American boy, and the eruption of bigotry in her small Wisconsin town.
F Bus Ride by Marilyn Sachs
Sac Romance on wheels? That's just what happens when a boy and girl start talking as they ride the bus. The chit-chat leads them into a warm friendship with the promise of more.
F Under a Different Sky, by Deborah Savage
Sav A boy with Olympic dreams and an extraordinary horse struggles to transcend his impoverished family background as he falls in love with the emotionally troubled daughter of a wealthy family.
F Ivanhoe: A Romance, by Sir Walter Scott
Sco This is a classic historical romance of knights and ladies in the time of Richard the Lion-Hearted.
F The Boy of My Dreams, by Dyan Sheldon
She Mike and her best friend Hope breathlessly await meeting the guys of their dreams and falling in love, but after Mike thinks that she has found the perfect boy there seems to be some question of whether he is her destiny.
F Love at the Laundromat by Rona Zable
Zab Joanne Thompson doesn't want it known that her mother owns a coin-op laundry, but things start looking up when a handsome college student becomes a regular customer.
SC This Strange New Feeling, by Julius Lester
Les Through the love stories of three couples–Ras and Sally, Forrest and Maria, and William and Ellen Craft–one of the most troubled and complex periods in American history is illuminated.