Teen Books with an Element of Romance

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• Teen books
• Romance
• Books published in the past 10 years
  

Penelope
By Marilyn Kaye
YA F KAYE
Twenty-five-year-old Penelope's life would be near-perfect had she not been cursed with the face of a pig, and so while her mother struggles to find a blue-blooded bachelor to break the curse and a tabloid reporter plots to expose her secret, Penelope gets fed up and leaves home, in disguise, to find her own happiness.

Confessions of a First Daughter
By Cassidy Calloway
YA F CALLOWAY
High school senior Morgan Abbott pretends to be her mother, the President of the United States, as a decoy, while she also tries to lead the life of a normal teenager. However, it’s difficult having a normal life when she’s always surrounded by Secret Service agents—one of whom happens to be rather distractingly handsome.

Something like Fate
By Susane Colasanti
YA F COLASANTI
Lani and Erin are best friends who fall for the same guy. Erin starts dating Jason but when she leaves for summer camp, Lani discovers that she and Jason might have more in common than Erin and Jason, and soon she’s trying to find a way to get the guy and keep her best friend.

My Invisible Boyfriend
By Susie Day
YA F DAY
In a British alternative high school, fifteen-year-old Heidi stands out in many ways, but when she invents a boyfriend--complete with online profile--her friends turn to him for advice and she must decide how far she is willing to go to find acceptance.

Things I Know about Love
By Kate Le Vann
YA F LE VANN
Seventeen-year-old Livia Stowe travels from England to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit her brother who is studying there and to celebrate her recovery from a year-long struggle with leukemia, and while she is there she writes a blog about her experiences, which include falling in love.

The Nature of Jade
By Deb Caletti
YA F CALETTI
Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family, until she spies a mysterious boy with a baby who seems to share her fascination with the elephants at a nearby zoo.

Hope Was Here
By Joan Bauer
YA F BAUER
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Enchanted Ivy
By Sarah Beth Durst
YA F DURST
To achieve her dream of attending Princeton University, sixteen-year-old Lily Carter accepts the challenge of seeking the Ivy Key to a magical realm, where she finds herself caught in a power struggle between two worlds, with her family at its center.