Contemporary Teen Fiction with Spunky Female Characters

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• Teen books
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Fat Cat
By Robin Brande
YA F BRANDE
Cat is determined to win this year’s science fair. Matt McKinney, Cat’s former best friend, has won several years in a row, so she needs a project to top him. When she decides to live like primitive humans, with natural foods and no technology, to test the effectS on herself, she finds an unexpected twist to her experiment—the effect she has on the boys around her, including Matt.

Hope Was Here
By Joan Bauer
YA F BAUER
Hope moves to Wisconsin with the aunt who has raised her. Working as a waitress in a diner, Hope finds herself trying to get the diner owner elected mayor and dealing with both her aunt’s romantic entanglements and her own.

Along for the Ride
By Sarah Dessen
YA F DESSEN
After high school graduation, studious insomniac Auden visits her father, step-mother, and new half sister. When she meets fellow insomniac Eli, he helps her realize she may have missed out on some things while focusing on her studies, and together they experience some of the little things in life that are too good to pass by.

Hold Still
By Nina LaCour YA F LACOUR
Caitlin's best friend Ingrid has committed suicide, leaving Caitlin lost, hurt, and confused. When she finds Ingrid's last journal, Caitlin has to work through her emotions. At school, she finds herself fighting against her photography teacher, a former mentor to her and Ingrid. She also fights both for and against a friendship with new girl Dylan as well as a relationship with Taylor, the popular guy who has been hanging lately.

I’d Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You
By Ally Carter YA F CARTER
Cami Morgan hasn’t had a normal high school experience. As student at a school for future CIA agents—an all-girl school—Cami hasn’t had much interaction with the opposite sex. When she meets a local boy, though, Cami has to put all her spy training into practice as she tries to keep her school a secret from Josh—and Josh a secret from her school.