Children's Book Suggestions | Young Teen Romance

A selection of age-appropriate romance stories focused on first crushes, first kisses, and first dates for readers age 10-14.

Updated January 21, 2026
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Oregon City Public Library
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The love report. 1
Béka
Paper Book
BFFs Grace and Lola try to unravel the mystery of romance with a plan to observe, study, and analyze the ways of love at their middle school in the first book in this addictive graphic novel series. BFFs Grace and Lola talk about everything related to romance-and have lots of...
All my bests
Meiser, Britnee
A song for you and I
O'Neill, Kay (Cartoonist)
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Being a ranger means adventure, action, and protecting the weak. But who protects the ranger when they lose their way? From the bestselling author of The Moth Keeper and the Tea Dragon Society comes a must read MG graphic novel for fans of soft sweeping fantasy...
Spin with me
Polonsky, Ami
Paper Book
From the author of the critically acclaimed Gracefully Grayson comes a thoughtful and sensitive middle-grade novel about non-binary identity and first love, Ami Polonsky's Spin with Me . In this elegant dual narrative, Essie is a thirteen-year-old girl feeling...
The language of seabirds
Taylor, Will (Children's literature author)
Ebook

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