First Kiss (Then Tell) edited by Cylin Busby 

Oh my gosh, what if I have bad breath? What if he has bad breath? Where am I supposed to put my hands? Oh no, he’s leaning in…

 

Meg Cabot's recent novel How to be Popular was pretty much what I expected -- a girl finds a book on how to be popular, follows the advice, and soon finds that the popular people she seeks to emulate aren't all that great after all. As an added bonus, she falls in love.

 

Check out these four new romantic getaways from Rachel Hawthorne. Each is full of fun and romance.The only thing you have to decide? Your destination.

When your parents make your life unusual and you don’t have any friends, all you can do is hope there is someone out there who might understand you.

Besides the cute love stories, I noticed that both of these books featured girls in early high school who were being pushed too hard by their parents to succeed at something. Both girls were unhappy and stressed out, and they had to rebel a little bit to find their own place in the world.