Wamego High
School's Good Reads
Romance
The
following books can be found
in the Fiction
collection, shelved by the first three letters of the author's last
name,
e.g., F BAR.Applegate, K. A. SHARING SAM.
Alison and her
best
friend fall
in love with the same guy.
Blume, Judy. FOREVER.A novel of a
teenage
senior-year
love affair based primarily on sexual attraction.
Bronte, Emily. WUTHERING
HEIGHTS.A savage,
tormented
classic love
story.
Eliot, George. ADAM BEDE.18th century
British
novel of three
unworldly people trapped by unwise love.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. GREAT
GATSBY.Classic
portrayal of love
and violence
during the Roaring Twenties.
Hardy, Thomas. FAR FROM THE
MADDING
CROWD.The drab
existence of
country people
made vivid with the love of Gabriel and Bathsheba.
Heath, Lorraine. Amelia and the outlaw.Amelia
has grown up protected from the world. But when Jesse is sentenced to
work on her father's ranch, Amelia discovers she has strong feelings
for him.
Logue, Mary. DANCING WITH AN ALIENA teenage boy
from outer space travels to
earth on a mission to help save his planet, and ultimately he falls in
love, causing his mission to fail.
McKillip, Patricia A. WINTER
ROSE.
Lyrical, imaginative,
coming-of-age
fantasy about two sisters, a cursed stranger, and a haunted estate,
where
love and dreams collide.
Trapped
in a burning building, Lady Victoria Keys vows to marry whatever man
rescues her, but the Viscount must reveal his past before they can
share their future.
Mindel,
Jenna.
Miranda's
mistake.Seven
years ago Lady Miranda Crandle jilted Evan Langley to marry a man of
greater means. She never forgot him. He never forgave her. But he has
returned, and true love is never beyond repair.
Moriarty,
Laura. The center of
everything.Evelyn
Bucknow is happy living with her single mother, Tina, in a small
apartment outside Kerrville, Kansas, until Tina's failed romance with
her married boss leaves her jobless and desperate, forcing Evelyn to
distance herself and turn to her conventional grandmother for help.
Nilsson,
Per and Chace, Tara.
Heart's delight.As a sixteen year old looks at
and systematically destroys each of his
mementos of Ann-Katrin, he replays scenes from their relationship and
realizes that it was not the great romance he believed it to
be.
Savage,
Deborah. UNDER A
DIFFERENT
SKY.A boy with Olympic dreams
and an
extraordinary horse struggles to transcend his impoverished family
background
as he falls in love with the emotionally troubled daughter of a wealthy
family.
Sparks,
Nicholas. The wedding.Wilson
Lewis, forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage
after thirty years, and realizing his responsibility for that loss,
embarks on a mission to make his wife fall in love with him all over
again.
Steele,
Danielle. PROMISE.Romance by the most
popular writer
in the genre. Many more titles on the shelf!
Thesman,
Jean. A sea so far.After
surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, two teenage
girls, a wealthy semi-invalid and her hired companion, travel together
to Ireland and discover they share much in common, from a love of
romance novels to grief over the loss of their mothers.
Weinstock,
Nicholas. As long as
she needs me.Oscar
Campbell, the able personal assistant to the legendary Dawn, of the New
York publishing house Dawn Books, is thrown for a loop when he is
charged with planning Dawn's secret wedding, but with the help of
wedding columnist Lauren LaRose, he gets the job done and stirs up a
little romance of his own.
Wersba,
Barbara. WHISTLE
ME HOME.17-year-old Noli's dreams
seem to
have come true after meeting TJ, but something is missing.
Wharton,
Edith. ETHAN
FROME. Tragic love story with
setting in
remote New England has become one of the classics of 20th century
American
literature.
