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If you like Meg Cabot, try...

Anne Brashares:  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
          The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
            The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
            Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
            Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

During summers apart, four teenage girls, best friends since early childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each one of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.

Kate Brian:
            The Princess & the Pauper
When sixteen-year-old Julia, of Los Angeles, and sixteen-year-old Princess Carina, of Vineland, switch places, Julia dances at the ball with the incredible Markus and Carina escapes rigid protocol to spend time with a rock star.

Megan Meade’' Guide to the McGowan Boys
While her military parents are stationed in South Korea, Megan, a high school junior, learns a great deal about boys and herself when she moves to Massachusetts to live with family friends who have seven sons.

Clark Catherine: Truth or Dairy
The journal of Courtney Von Dragen Smith who writes her first page after her boyfriend breaks up with her because he’s heading off to college.  Angry and humilitated, Courtney vows to survive senior year on the anti-guy plan and focus on friends, school, and her job at the hip café Truth or Dairy.

Sarah Dessen:
            The Truth About Forever
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

            Just Listen
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the party that changed her life.

Margaret Peterson Haddix: Just Ella
Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming’s proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.

Cathy Hopkins: 
    Mates, Dates series
            Mates Dates & Inflatable Bras
            Mates Dates & Cosmic Kisses
            Mates Dates & Portobello Princesses
            Mates Dates & Sleepover Secrets
            Mates Dates & Sole Survivors
            Mates Dates & Mad Mistakes
            Mates Dates & Pulling Power
            Mates Dates & Tempting Trouble
            Mates Dates & Great Escapes
            Mates Dates & Chocolate Cheats
            Mates Dates & Diamond Destiny
            Mates Dates & Sizziling Summers
A series that follows the trials and tribulations of three friends, Izzy, Nesta, and Lucy.    

    Truth, Dare
          White Lies and Barefaced Truths
          Pop Princess
         Teen Queens and Has-Beens
         Starstruck
         Double Dare
         Midsummer Meltdown
         Love Lottery
         All Mates Together
         Totally Brilliant
The adventures of friends Cat, Becca, Squidge and Mac.

Melissa Kantor: Confessions of a Not It Girl
Jan Miller, New York City high school senior and self-labeled "Not-It" girl, struggles with her parents, her embarrassing crushes, and her best friend, an “It” girl if there ever was one.

Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted
In this novel, based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.

Jacklyn Moriarty:  The Year of Secret Assignments
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as a part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.

Louise Rennison:  Georgia Nicholson series
            Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
            Knocked Out By My Knunga-Knungas
            Dancing in My Nuddy Pants
            Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
            Startled By His Furry Shorts
            Love is a Many Trousered Thing
            Stop in the Name of Pants!
The humorous journal of a 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.

Dyan Sheldon:
            Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
            Confessions of a Hollywood Star
In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.