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This Sweet, Mid-Grade Story Is Perfect For Budding Romance Fans

If your kids aren't quite old enough for classic teen love stories, Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai is a just-right read with a heroine who still spends Saturday nights playing board games with her family.
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They are up there, and maybe I should be embarrassed about it, but I'm not. When my kids were born, I stocked their bookshelves with books from my own childhood and teenaged years — so they are up there, nestled amongst the Judy Blume and Paula Danziger, easily taking up about a third of my girls' bookshelf. With their garish 1980s cover art, order forms in the back, and often some sort of badge proclaiming series names like "Two Hearts," "Caprice," "Heart to Heart."

Oh yes, the teen romances are up there.

, oh yes, there they are. Will the clingy boy Kris has known since she

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