Monday, February 2, 2015

It's A Love Written in the Stars . . . Romances for Teens

With Valentine's Day quickly approaching, many teen's thoughts turn to love.  Here are some great teen books featuring star-crossed romances . . .

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year.

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

Prince of Shadows by Rachel Caine
The star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet, told through the eyes of Romeo's cousin, Benvolio, a thief known as the Prince of Shadows.


More Tales of Star-Crossed Loves
Alienated by Melissa Landers
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler
Crash Into You by Katie McGarry
Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis
Everynight by Claudia Gray
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski


These books will be on display at the Arnold Branch through February 20, 2015.

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