Romance Titles in the Terman Library

F Bro          Jane Eyre                                Brontë, Charlotte

When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.

F Bur          Royally Jacked                           Burnham, Niki

Valerie, caught in the middle of her parents' divorce, opts to stay with her father who has just accepted a job as protocol chief for some European royals, but she is beginning to thinks she has made the wrong choice until she meets the prince.

F Bur          Spin Control                             Burnham, Niki

Valerie Winslow's relationship with Georg, a real prince of Schwerinborg, comes to a halt when her father sends her back to her mother in Virginia, but her old flame, David Anderson, may be just the answer to forgetting Georg.

F Cab          Boy Meets Girl                           Cabot, Meg

Kate Mackenzie finds her life going from bad to worse with a long-time boyfriend who refuses to commit, a mother in love with a younger man, and a desperate housing situation, until she meets attorney Mitch Hertzog.

F Cab          Princess in Love                         Cabot, Meg

In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.

F Cor          Fifteen Love                             Corbet, Robert

Mia, a violist, and Will, a tennis player, each relate their feelings about each other, school, friends, and family troubles as they struggle to understand the opposite sex and to survive being fifteen.

F Cre          Children of the River                    Crew, Linda

Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and adjusting to life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.

F Des          This Lullaby: a Novel                    Dessen, Sarah

Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy, a master at getting rid of boyfriends before any emotional attachments form, finds herself strangely unwilling to free herself from Dexter, a messy, disorganized, impulsive musician who she suspects she has come to love.

F Ell          The Year of my Indian Prince             Ellis, Ella

A fictionalized version of the author's experiences in 1946 when, at the age of sixteen, she was admitted to a San Francisco tuberculosis hospital and courted by a Maharajah's son.

F Fre          Love                                     Fredericks, Mariah

Thirteen-year-old Anna hopes that her newly inherited tarot cards will predict an exciting future, including becoming the girlfriend of eighth-grade hottie, Declan Kelso.

F Hur          The Unsigned Valentine                   Hurwitz,Johanna

In early twentieth-century Vermont, fifteen-year-old Emma confides in her diary both her hopes of becoming a farmer's wife one day and her frustrations with her parents' belief that she is too young to be courted by the handsome Cole Berry.

F Jen          Belle and the Beau                       Jenkins,Beverly

Just before the American Civil War, Belle Palmer escapes from slavery in the South to freedom in the North, where she meets and falls in love with Daniel Best.

F Mar          Mary Anne's Big Breakup                  Martin, Ann

Mary Anne's relationship with Logan is in danger of ending.

F Mit          Gone with the Wind                       Mitchell, Margaret

After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home. 

F Moo          Gwyneth and the Thief                    Moore, Margaret

In thirteenth-century England, fifteen-year-old Lady Gwyneth takes a thief into her castle to train her army, making him pose as a squire, but a forbidden kiss tempts her to follow her heart despite Gavin's true status.

F Par          A Wanted Man                             Parra, Nancy

Librarian Brianna McGraw, having traveled West to rescue her brother from bandits, decides to become a bounty hunter in order to earn the money to buy him back, but her plan becomes complicated when Trey Morgan, the criminal she is determined to bring to justice steals her heart.

F Ren         Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging   Rennison,L.

Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

F Rip    How I fell in Love & Learned to Shoot          Ripslinger, Jon

Seventeen-year-old Danny Henderson, an indifferent basketball player, has his eye on Angel McPherson, star of the girls' team in their Iowa high school.

F Sch          Teenage Mermaid                          Schreiber, Ellen

Fifteen-year-old Spencer falls in love with Lilly, a mermaid who rescues him from drowning and who returns to land to find him.

F Vai        You, Maybe: the Profound Asymmetry of Love Vail,R.

Josie, a fifteen-year-old high school sophomore, is smart, funny, and very much her own person, but when popular senior Carson Gold starts wooing her, she cannot resist his attention.

F Voi          Jackaroo                                 Voigt, Cynthia

When hard times among the People revive the old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend.

F Voi          Bad Girls in Love                        Voigt, Cynthia

Now in the eighth grade, best friends Mikey and Margalo try to figure out boys, crushes, and falling in love.

F Wil          Girls in Love                            Wilson, Jacqueline

Ellie, a normal, ordinary girl, starts ninth grade with high hopes of keeping her best friends, staying on a diet, becoming more glamorous, and getting a boyfriend.

F Wit          Razzle                                   Wittlinger, Ellen

When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, fifteen-year-old Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs.