If you like Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Weiss

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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Melinda Sordino's inner voice provides sardonic commentary on her high school experience, while her real self remains mute about a painful incident that has made her an outcast.

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta.

When her normally animated and enthusiastic mother cannot get out of bed, Francesca has more to worry about than being one of 30 new girls in an otherwise all-male school. A fresh coming-of-age saga told in a voice that is both frank and funny.

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff.

LaVaughn is saving money for college, babysitting for a single mother whose life is out of control! Meanwhile, LaVaughn and her friends have other things to figure out.

Light on Snow by Anita Shreve.

Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid December day, 19 years earlier, when she and her father found an abandoned infant in the snow, this is a beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory.

Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser.

Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends.