| Author |
Title |
Book Location(s) |
| Austen,
Jane |
Emma
Young, beautiful Emma Woodhouse attempts to play matchmaker
in her search for love for herself and her friends. |
Fiction Austen
Teen Austen
|
| Berg,
Elizabeth |
True to Form
Teenaged Katie is having a hard time sorting out friends
when she moves from Texas to Missouri after her mother's
death. |
Fiction
Berg
Teen Berg |
| Betancourt,
Jeanne |
Not Just Party Girls
Consumed with guilt over the contrast between her comfortable
life and conditions at the camp for migrant workers where
she has been volunteering, sixteen-year-old Anne horrifies
her two best friends by threatening to quit the moneymaking
business they have started together. |
Teen
Betancourt |
| Blume, Judy |
Summer
Sisters
Two girls meet one summer and become best friends until
one girl falls passionately in love. |
Fiction
Blume
Teen Blume |
| Brashares,
Ann |
The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their
lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants. |
Teen
Brashares |
| Chevalier,
Tracy |
Falling
Angels
In a novel of manners and social divisions set against
the backdrop of turn-of-the-century England, two girls
from different classes become friends and their families'
lives become intertwined in the process. |
Fiction
Chevalier |
| Desai
Hidier, Tanuja |
Born Confused
Dimple doesn't want the "suitable Indian boy"
her parents have found for her, but her best friend Gwen
does. |
Teen
Desai Hidier |
| Dessen,
Sarah |
Someone Like You
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death
of the boyfriend of her best friend Scarlett, the discovery
that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious
relationship. |
Teen
Dessen |
| Divakaruni,
Chitra Banerjee |
Sister of My Heart
Cousins Sudha and Anju have been close since they were
born, but their bond is shattered when Sudha learns a
dark family secret. |
Fiction
Divakaruni |
| Hoffman,
Alice |
Local Girls
An anthology of interconnected short stories captures
Gretel Samuelson's journey through betrayal, grief, conflicting
loyalties, friendship, and loss. |
Fiction
Hoffman
Teen Hoffman |
| Moody,
Martha |
Best
Friends
The friendship of two very different women--one from a
working-class, Protestant family in Ohio and the other
from a wealthy, Jewish family in L.A.--spans two decades
and endures family and career demands. |
Fiction
Moody |
| Naylor,
Gloria |
Women of Brewster Place
This novel chronicles the communal strength of seven
diverse black women who live in a decaying urban neighborhood.
|
Fiction
Naylor
Teen Naylor |
| O'Connell, Rebecca |
Myrtle
of Willendorf
As she tries to achieve some form of self-acceptance,
Myrtle ruminates on her estrangement from her former best
friend Margie, a would-be coven leader who advocates Goddess
worship. |
Teen
O'Connell |
| Otto,
Whitney |
How to Make an American Quilt
Eight women gather together through the years to piece
together an extraordinary quilt and tell stories of their
successes and failures, their lives, loves and dreams. |
Fiction
Otto
Teen Otto |
| Riccio,
Dolores Stewart |
Circle of Five
Five ordinary, everyday Wiccans band together in a dangerous
undertaking that will call upon all their powers and test
the bonds of friendship. |
Fiction
Riccio
Teen Riccio |
| Shimko,
Bonnie |
Letters in the Attic
In the early 1960's, Lizzy McMann moves from Arizona
to New York and strikes up a friendship with Eva "who
looks like Natalie Wood and smokes."
|
Fiction
Shimko |
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