Here are some of the girlfriend fiction books if anyone is stuck for an answer
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I've only listed some, as I didn't want to make this post too long, but the complete list is here: http://www.allenandunwin.com/girlfriendfiction/series.html)
About the seriesThree Things About Daisy BlueDaisy Blue is not happy. She doesn't want to go to Bali. And she doesn't want to keep a diary of her trip. And she doesn't want to hang out with Paulina Gifford. She does want to be a size zero and famous.
Paulina Gifford is very studious. She is excited about the Bali trip and is keen to use her journal solely for recording her historical and cultural investigations. She thinks Daisy Blue is some kind of alien species.
But Bali surprises them both - and soon they are in danger of falling in 'like' with each other. Is it possible that the fashionista and the earnest nerd might find something in common...
THE BOY/FRIENDMaude and Lou are best friends who live in the same street. She's a smart girl from a sensible family. He's a weirdo - a punk-rock musician. Despite being different, they've always hung out together. But when Lou asks Maude out on a date, all that changes.
A date with your best friend? How could that ever work?
THIRTEEN PEARLSEdie Sparks has grand plans. She's building a boat to sail solo around the world, but she needs cash, and fast. So when her uncle offers her good money to work on his island pearl farm for six weeks she jumps at the chance. All she has to do is baby-sit her little cousin and help with the cooking and cleaning - how hard could it be?
But soon Edie is wrangling a monster-brat, struggling to find exciting new ways to cook fish, arguing with her uncle and being wooed by two handsome boys. The work is hard and thankless and an isolated island off the coast of Far North Queensland turns out to be not as idyllic as it sound - especially when she has no control over the powerful forces of nature.
DEAR SWOOSIEIndia can see the future, and Poppy has a past. And when they discover old letters in the school attic it seems destiny has a plan for them. Who is the mysterious Swoosie? What does she have to do with Poppy's high-school sweetheart parents, and India's mum?
Meanwhile plans for the reunion of the class of '89 are underway, and there's a lot of bad hair going round. Does the past have the power to change the future and can the future heal the past? India and Poppy are about to find out.
FIFTEEN LOVE
Take one girl - sweet and serious. Take one boy - sweaty and sporty. Add one beagle, an impetuous younger brother and a dash of misunderstanding. Stir well...
Mia thinks boys are immature. They only use one per cent of their brain. They only ever talk about cars and sport. They only ever think about sex. Will has no idea what girls talk about. He wishes he had a tape recorder and a hidden microphone. A hilarious, affectionate story about a boy and a girl, a viola and a tennis racquet; about family and friends, flirting and true love.
A LETTER FROM LUISA
Suddenly I had the perfect excuse to actually talk to Jet Lucas in person. All I had to do was rock up and say, 'Hi Jet, today is your lucky day because I'm going to be your sound engineer at the fete.' Simple, yes?
Luisa's running the Motherwell High Twilight Fete like a well-oiled machine, while keeping her father and little sister firmly under control and school bullies at arms-length. But she's trying to keep way too many balls in the air - and when they all come crashing down around her, Luisa becomes Loser. It can't all be her fault - can it? Perhaps if she can slow down enough to write her version of events, Luisa might be able to untangle where it all went wrong.
LITTLE BIRDEverything I know about love I learned in one short year. Somehow I'd coasted along all my life and then I fell in love twice, bam bam, just like that, and it left my heart spinning...
Ruby-lee is cynical about love; after all, she's watched her sister Shandra call off her wedding three times a week. But when Shandra volunteers her to babysit her friend's seven month old baby, Ruby-lee discovers just what love means. First she's overcome by powerful feelings for tiny Maisy, then she starts spending time with Maisy's dad, Spence. She even begins to imagine a future together, as a family. But where will Ruby-lee's fantasies lead? And what sort of trouble could they get her into? When it looks like Ruby-lee might lose everything, she has to discover what love truly is to find her own heart.
WHAT SUPERGIRL DID NEXTJade is a girl who knows what she wants. She knows how to get it too. But when a knee injury interrupts her plans, she feels lost and unsure. It's a bad time to get her annoyed. When a sexist remark gets her blood boiling, Jade thinks she's found something to fight for. If she sets up a race to prove that girls aren't soft, then maybe she'll also prove to herself that she can still find The Zone. But will her single-minded approach to proving her point win her the race, and the boy? Or will she learn that maybe - just maybe - winning isn't everything?
SOMETHING MORE
Just remember, Isla, when you're searching for happiness, it knows all the best hiding places. (Gran McGonnigle)
Isla McBay is the only person in her family who isn't delighted that they've left grey, rainy Scotland for warm, sunny Australia. For starters, she can't swim - not great for pool parties. She misses her gran and her friends, her dad's insisting on giving her the most irritating driving lessons on earth, and she's constantly fighting with her younger sister, Terry, who's more adventurous than Isla and always does everything first. At least there's photography, but even her class with dreamy Sam Doyle and annoying yet intriguing Jack Ferris can't cure Isla's homesickness...
Then Terry comes to Isla with a serious problem, jolting her into the here-and-now and forcing Isla to make a choice: will she stop living a miserable half-life in her new country and be the better sister Terry needs her to be - or will she close her eyes to what's really important?
Australian Competitions Club
