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Cheery and Light YA Fiction! This booklist is also available in flyer format in the YA section.  Just click on the title below to see if the book is available. Not Just Party Girls - Jeanne Betancourt Three teens run a professional party business for kids and are planning a trip to Europe with the money they earn, until one of the girls plans to join a mission for migrant workers. Will their plans be ruined, or can they find a way to make it work?   Midnight Hour Encores - Bruce Brooks Musical prodigy Sib Spooner convinces her father to take her to meet her hippie-type mother whom she has never met. Together they drive to San Francisco and are surprised by what they find.   Knee Holes - Jerome Brooks An underachieving high school sophomore falls in love with her honors English teacher. When there are mysterious rumors circulating about him, she sets out to learn the truth.   Answer Me, Answer Me - Irene Bennett Brown After her "Gram" dies, Bryn Kinney sets out to find out the truth about her real family. Her travel takes her to Kansas where she is quite surprised at what she finds.   Coasting - Barbara Cohen After graduating from high school, Metz arrives in New York planning a care-free stay exploring the city and testing his freedom. He meets his friend Maddy who is in college, and they renew their old relationship.   The Party's Over - Caroline B. Cooney Prom queen and cheerleader Hallie Rivness struggles to find meaning in her life and hold onto her boyfriend after all of her friends go off to college.   Among Friends - Caroline B. Cooney Six high school juniors discover surprising things about themselves and each other through diaries they are required to keep as part of an English assignment.   On the Devil's Court - Carl Deuker Seventeen year old Joe Foster, forced to go to a private school he hates, sells his soul to the devil to become a superstar on his basketball team.   Summer's Chance - Patricia Harrison Easton While spending the summer at her grandmother's horse farm, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth gains a clearer sense of her own individuality as she learns more about her long dead mother and the reasons for her grandmother's behavior.   Shark Beneath the Reef - Jean Craighead George On an island in the beautiful Sea of Cortez, the greatest prize for a fisherman is catching a shark. This is Tomas' dream but friends, family and teachers are encouraging him to choose an education over life as a fisherman. It is a difficult choice, and one that he will not make lightly.   Just Friends - Norma Klein Ketti, Lois, Andrea and Iz, best friends "forever," vow to make their senior year one to remember, but petty jealousies surrounding the boys in their lives threaten to destroy their warm relationships.   The Arizona Kid - Ron Koertge Sixteen-year-old Billy spends an exciting and fun-filled summer with his uncle out West. He falls madly in love and learns a lot about life. A funny and fast read.   The Luck of Texas McCoy - Carolyn Meyer Texas McCoy was sixteen wher her grandfather died and left her the ranch and his debts. Selling off a few acres to a Hollywood company changes her luck and her life when she is hired to teach a young handsome star how to ride.   The Jell-O Syndrome - Winifred Morris Stephanie, super math whiz, student government officer and MIT candidate, has reached her senior year without ever having a date. She didn't feel she was missing anything, until a new boy comes to school and sweeps her off her feet.   In Summer Light - Zibby O'Neal With the help of an attractive graduate student, Kate endures a summer with her overpowering artist father, and gains courage to pursue her own artistic goals.   Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray? - Randy Powell Biff is eighteen, looks fourteen, and freezes up with girls. Heidi is a beautiful, cigarette-smoking girl suspended from her high school. When she comes to visit her aunt, the two meet and WOW!   Something Beyond Paradise - Jan Slepian Longing for a dance career, Franny leaves her home in Hawaii on a scholarship to a prestigious New York dance company. There, as she meets a great guy and rescues a best friend from a cult, she finally finds a way to fulfill her dream.   The Taking of Mariasburg - Julian F. Thompson When she inherits a few million dollars from a father she never met, seventeen-year-old Maria decides to start a town that will be for teenagers only.   Cloudy-Bright - John Rowe Townsend When practical Sam, a college student majoring in photography, meets idealistic and dreamy Jenny, an unlikely artistic collaboration and romance result.   Just Be Gorgeous - Barbara Wersba Feeling unattractive and untalented, Heidi Rosenbloom, a New York City teenager, discovers her special qualities through her friendship with a street performer.