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  • Bibliography:
    105 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1982
  • Latest Book:
    October 2001
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Full Series List in Order

The Boyfriend Club

1 - Ginger's First Kiss (Jul-1994)
2 - Roni's Dream Boy (Jul-1994)
3 - Karen's Perfect Match (Aug-1994)
4 - Queen Justine (Sep-1994)
5 - Ginger's New Crush (Oct-1994)
6 - Roni's Two-Boy Trouble (Nov-1994)
7 - Karen's Lessons in Love (Jun-1995)
8 - Roni's Sweet Fifteen (Jul-1995)
9 - Justine's Baby-Sitting Nightmare (Aug-1995)
Dear Karen (Jul-1995)

The Boyfriend Club Special Edition

1 - No More Boys (Feb-1995)
2 - The Boyfriend Wars (Sep-1995)

Friends

1 - Starring Tess and Ali (May-1991)
2 - Tess and Ali and the Teeny Bikini (Jun-1991)
3 - Boy Trouble for Tess and Ali (Jun-1991)
4 - Tess and Ali, Going on Fifteen (Aug-1991)

Heartbreak Cafe

1 - No Experience Required (1989)
2 - The Main Attraction (1989)
3 - At Your Service (Nov-1989)
4 - Catch of the Day (Nov-1989)
5 - Love to Go (Feb-1990)
6 - Just Desserts (Feb-1990)

Senior Year

1 - Homecoming Dance (Oct-1991)
2 - New Years Eve (Dec-1991)
3 - Night of the Prom (Feb-1992)
4 - Graduation Day (Apr-1992)

Sister Sister

1 - Cool in School (Aug-1996)
2 - You Read My Mind (Oct-1996)
3 - One Crazy Christmas (Dec-1996)
4 - Homegirl on the Range (Feb-1997)
5 - Star Quality (Apr-1997)
6 - He's All That (Jun-1997)
7 - Summer Daze (Aug-1997)
8 - All Rapped Up (Oct-1997)

Sugar and Spice

1 - Two Girls One Boy (Mar-1987)
2 - Trading Places (Apr-1987)
3 - Last Dance (May-1987)
4 - Dear Cousin (Jun-1987)
5 - Nothing In Common (Jul-1987)
6 - Flip Side (Aug-1987)
7 - Tug of War (Sep-1987)
8 - Surf's Up (Oct-1987)
9 - Double Take (Nov-1987)
10 - Make Me a Star (Dec-1987)
11 - Big Sister (Jan-1988)
12 - Out in the Cold (Feb-1988)
13 - Blind Date (Apr-1988)
14 - It's My Turn (Jun-1988)
15 - Home Sweet Home (Aug-1988)
16 - Dream Come True (Nov-1988)
17 - Campus Cousins (Jan-1989)
18 - Roadtrip (Mar-1989)
19 - One Step Too Far (May-1989)
20 - Having a Ball (Jul-1989)

TGIF

1 - Sleepover Madness (Sep-1995)
2 - Friday Night Fright (Oct-1995)
3 - Four's a Crowd (Dec-1995)
4 - Forever Friday (Dec-1995)
5 - Toe-Shoe Trouble (Jan-1996)
6 - Secret Valentine (Feb-1996)

Multi-Author Series List

Caprice

35 - Tommy Loves Tina (Feb-1984)
53 - Winner Take All (Nov-1984)

Enchanted Hearts

4 - Love Potion (Sep-1999)

Full House

Fun, Sun and Flamingoes (Jun-1997)
Flamingo Revenge (Aug-1997)

Full House: Club Stephanie

1 - Fun, Sun and Flamingoes (Jun-1997)
3 - Flamingo Revenge (Aug-1997)

The Loop

4 - Getting Personal: Becky (Nov-1994)

Sweet Dreams Special Edition

1 - My Secret Love (Jun-1986)
5 - Never Say Goodbye (Aug-1987)

Sweet Dreams: On Our Own

1 - The Graduates (May-1986)
2 - The Trouble With Toni (Jun-1986)
4 - Old Friends, New Friends (Aug-1986)
5 - Growing Pains (Sep-1986)
6 - Best Friends Forever (Oct-1986)

True Love

2 - Secrets (Sep-2001)
4 - Kiss and Lie (Oct-2001)

Wildfire Romance

34 - Write Every Day (Oct-1986)

Book List in Order: 105 titles



  • If Jill wins the contest, she'll lose Craig forever... Jill's vacation gets off to a wild start when her best friend, Toni. thinks up a contest--- who can be the fist to date ten new boys! It seems like a great solution to a boring summer until th...



  • When Lisa's parents split up, she has to leave glamorous Hollywood, her father, and her movie-star mother - to live with a grandmother she hardly knows. How can she ever be happy again? All too often, Lisa finds herself escaping into daydreams -- ...



  • It could be a long and lonely summer... Meredith Markham's not happy about spending the summer taking care of her sick aunt in Maine. The weather is miserable, she's stuck inside a spooky old beach house, and worst of all, her boyfriend, Peter, is...



  • An ugly duckling turned swan was the perfect description for Tina Walters. Not only did her looks change, but she finally got her hooks into Grant Hollister, superjock of Valley High. Everything was going fine until Tommy Van den Berg, joker gone wil...



  • Joanna's a 15-year-old super-jock who's not quite ready to trade in her sneakers and sweatshirts for three-inch heels and designer jeans. Then she joins the boys' tennis team...meets Rick...and decides she enjoys being a girl! But Rick's the no...



  • When the boy you love is far away, can you trust your heart... When Fiona arrives in sunny New Mexico from her home in England, it feels as if she's entered a whole new world. But instead of enjoying her stay as an exchange student, she's miserabl...



  • Will she win her Olympic dream only to lose her love... In California, swimming was important and Jennie was determined to be an Olympic competitor. But at her family's new home in Texas, football is all anyone cares about. Jennie is alone, an outsi...



  • It's only the first week of classes, but Stephanie's already blown it with the in crowd of her new school. She knows she would win their approval if she could just have one more chance. What better way than to pose as her own twin sister and pass ...



  • Tiffany hasn't seen her film-maker father in the two years since her parents' divorce. So naturally she's uneasy when her mother suddenly announces she's remarrying and taking a long honeymoon, and Tiffany has to spend the time with her father. For t...






  • As World War I ravaged Europe, twenty-year-old Grace Pritchard went to the front to aid the sick and needy. The daughter of a country clergyman, she was determined to make something special of her life. Yet she never dreamed that there, among the wou...



  • "When one boy leaves, another takes his place!" Erin was a loser at love, always falling for boys who didn't love her. Then she met Paul, the most popular boy in school, who invited her on a ski trip. But when Erin broke her leg, Paul dropped her ...



  • Looking for love... Now that she's a sophomore, Darcy is ready to meet the perfect boy -- if only she knew where to find him. She decides to write a term paper on the subject. Naturally, that means she has to do some research. But when parties, afte...



  • When her best friend, Toni, talks Jill Gardner into spending summer in Europe, Jill is worried. Toni has been leading her into scrapes since they were kids, and Jill is sure their trip will spark an international disaster. But when they arrive in Fra...



  • Desperately homesick for Massachusetts and missing her boyfriend, Don, Kristy Johnson, newly arrived in Hawaii, finds herself torn between a carefree islander and a boy who looks like her old boyfriend...



  • Julie Klein plans to bring her good-looking cousin Danny, a Yale student posing as her date, to the freshman formal, but if he declines she will have to resort to drastic measures to save her new reputation with the in-crowd...



  • Best friends Jill and Toni are separated when Jill enters the exclusive Rosemont College, and Jill must cope with her studies, her popular but spoiled roommate, Sheridan, and a handsome senior, Kyle....




  • Toni, lonely with Jill away at college, throws herself into a whirlwind of new activities--work, classes, the local theater, and romance--that might be more than she can handle ....








  • She was totally unprepared for the great surge of jealousy that seized her. Don't be so childish, she tried to tell herself. All that was over and finished long ago. it's not as if you've been mooning over Craig for the past few months. You have Jake...



  • Kim is the misfit in her family. Her brother, her sister, her parents -- they’re all athletic and outgoing, but Kim thinks she doesn’t measure up at all. So every summer she dreads the trip to the camp her family runs in the mountains, where s...



  • City Girl, Country Girl... Caroline's thrilled to find out she's got a long-lost cousin exactly her age. But she's horrified when Chrissy comes to spend a year with her family. Caroline's a reserved and polite only child -- now she has to share her ...



  • The things we do for love... Chrissy's on Cloud 9 when Hunter, a handsome senior, asks her out. The only problem is that he thinks she's glamorous and sophisticated. She's positive he'll lose interest when he finds out she's an Iowa farm girl. Chris...



  • It's my life, and I'll do what I want to... When Chrissy begs her cousin, Caroline, to come to auditions for the school musical, Caroline reluctantly agrees -- and lands a leading dance role! Caroline's a classical dancer and plans to refuse the par...



  • Now Chrissy's gone too far... Chrissy Madden can't believe how important she's become as the school's secret advice columnist. How did Maxwell High get along without her? It seems she's the only one around with any common sense. When Chrissy's co...



  • Vicky Wilding has spent so much of her life playing tennis that she hasn't had a minute for anything else - even boys. Now she has been sent to Australia for her debut tour on the pro circuit, and she's afraid she'll fail at tennis just as she has at...








  • Upset when her father's illness forces the sale of their Wyoming ranch and the family's move to Denver, Eden finds consolation in her work for an old riding stable until the arrogant Ran Benson shows up for riding lessons....





  • Chrissy must spend her senior year in San Francisco after her parents' Iowa home is wiped out by a tornado, and Caroline can't believe how enthusiastic her farm-girl cousin is about spending another year in the city...






  • When Caroline chickens out on a blind date with the son of prominent socialites, Chrissy agrees to go in her stead--and pretends to be Caroline! Then Chrissy becomes increasingly involved in her fantasy past as a ballerina, and Caroline is not so sur...








  • Chrissy and Caroline get a big break when they loft-sit in Manhattan and take jobs as an intern at a teen magazine and as a foreign interpreter to the United Nations and have the opportunity to experience city life....





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    They've got as much in common as caviar and french fries .. . Deborah Lesley is country clubs and convertibles, croissants and cappuccino. She's never held a job. Joe Garbarini is meatballs and milkshakes, motorcycles and heavy metal. He's work...



  • Cousins Chrissy and Caroline visit Caroline's boyfriend at the Fort Collins Air Force Academy, and Chrissy is thrilled to meet handsome senior cadet William Powell, but Caroline's romance is headed for a crash...



  • Still recovering from her unexpected break-up with Luke, Caroline decides to tutor inmates at a nearby prison, but her busy cousin Chrissy comes to Caroline's aid when she gets carried away with her altruistic intentions...



  • Their first year at Colorado University brings many changes as Caroline switches her major from French literature to sociology and meets a fellow social reformer, and Chrissy receives an engagement ring and an invitation to join her boyfriend in Aust...




  • Art saves Rosarita from drowning and the two soon find themselves madly in love, but like the ill-fated lovers in "West Side Story," they face the prejudices of his friends and the strictures of her family...



  • THE ROUGH AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK WAS NO PLACE FOR A PROPER ENGLISHWOMAN Sarah Hartley traveled to the rugged outback with a heart full of hope--only to be greeted with news of her fiance's death. Banished from England by her father who forbade her mar...








  • Having learned not to expect too much from life, Laurie Beth's plans to marry her high school boyfriend and start a family in her small farm community are upset by the arrival of Dylan, a motorcyclist who teaches her to write poetry and dream...






  • Back at the beach for their third summer together, friends Tess and Ali risk a break in their relationship when Tess falls for Ali's older brother and Ali, sure that Josh is not interested, discourages the match...



  • From the decorous drawing rooms of the East to the dirty Gold Rush tent city of Hangtown with its tinderbox violence, Libby Grenville traveled in search of her husband Hugh who'd followed his dream to California. She was a woman alone with two small ...



  • Tess Neville and Alison Hinkle are once again enjoying a summer together at Rose Bay, but their friendship may be in jeopardy when a boy-crazy girl named Jasmine coaxes Tess into pursuing boys as well...






  • Gina has never liked Kyle. Gina has always had to work for her grades and money while things have always been easy for Kyle. But Gina and Kyle are thrown together on their lifeguarding jobs, and Gina discovers that she and Kyle have a lot in common--...



  • The phantom of Fillmore High… When Aimee Harrison transfers to a city high school for the performing arts, she expects a world of drama, music, and sophisticated new friends to greet her. Instead, the students at Fillmore High don't want an intrud...




  • A collection of three different stories about Billy and Ben features the eight-year-old twins switching roles to fool their schoolmates, causing chaos at a dance recital, and ridding themselves of a meddlesome aunt...



  • Still licking her wounds from her heartbreak with her first boyfriend, Jamie breaks her promise to stay away from boys for three months and falls for Griffin, a sensitive guy she is sure will not break her heart. Original....






  • Three young women--Toya, whose boyfriend has just betrayed her; Sharon, who has just lost her mother; and Dorothy, an aspiring dancer--come to escape the past, and together they find the future. Original....



  • From the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, a young woman goes in search of her family’s missing heirloom and discovers an ancestral history of forbidden love.   In the months before the French Revolution, two young girls are given a preciou...



  • Hold a mega blow-out at Justine's house with stacks of music, dancing, and we hope, romance. Give Ginger a new image -- she really wants to impress Ben, her brother's best friend, and when he's done, he's bound to notice her....



  • You'll never guess what happened when Roni saw a vision of her ideal guy at our Boyfriend Club seance. We didn't believe her -- until she actually saw him in school. Unfortunately their first meeting was an ultra-embarrassment for Roni -- not only ...



  • Karen tries to cope with the expectations of her Vietnamese parents as she and her friends at Phoenix's Alta Mesa High School deal with problems caused when the Nerds create a computer program to find perfect dates for the girls....




  • Just as her romance with Ben seems to be faltering, Ginger finds a potential new boyfriend, when her crusade to save a Native American holy place from commercial development takes her to the school's ecology club....



  • Becky Delaney was a hick girl from a small town who came to the city seeking fame and fortune... and ended up taking personal ads over the phone for the local "alternative" paper. Her big career was no-go, so how could she resist livening things up b...



  • Its principle aim is to get boyfriends. In this sixth title, Roni finds herself attracted to the Nerd's friend Chris, but surely she can't see him, when she's going out with Drew!...





  • Surprised by love . . . Fifteen-year-old Amber Stevens and her parents have struck a deal. She'll live with them on her grandfather's Wyoming farm for one year--then she's free to go back home to New York City. Amber's counting the days . . . unti...




  • Roni's turning fifteen, and she's dreading it! Her parents are throwing a huge formal birthday bash, but Roni's embarrassed by all the attention. She's even telling the boys not to come to the party -- and now they think Roni doesn't like them anymor...



  • Justine starts babysitting for a neighbor and gets into hot water when she lies about her age to get the job, and even hotter water when she discovers that the guy she fancies is at college....



  • After receiving a makeover by her fellow club members, Ginger's plain cousin Lacey emerges as a stunning and popular version of her old self and quickly poses trouble where boyfriends are concerned. Original....



  • When everything goes wrong during her first week of sixth grade, Kaitlin Durham is relieved when she makes two new friends in Emily Delgado and Lexie Taylor, and the three plan a weekend sleepover, with disastrous results. Original....




  • Anticipating a fun-filled weekend of skiing, hot chocolate, and games at Lexie's dad's mountain cabin, the Sleepover pals find their plans ruined by a blizzard that traps them indoors and brings out the worst in everybody. Original....





  • Is it curtains for the Friday night friends? Kaitlin is dying to take horseback riding lessons with Emily and Lexie, but her mom insists she take ballet instead. Trading in her riding gear for a pink leotard crushes Kaitlin-she'll never see h...



  • Sending herself a valentine from an imaginary secret admirer, Lexie Taylor finds more trouble than she anticipated when her friends expect her to attend the forthcoming Valentine's Day dance with him. Original....




  • Kirsten Hayes won't let anything get in the way of her Olympic dreams...not even gorgeous new ice skating partner, Kai Bergstrom. Intense and arrogant, Kai is just a loud mouthed hockey hunk to Kirsten. But, on the ice, everything is different. When ...





  • Disliking Tia's mom's new boyfriend, the twins fear that he will separate them again when he announces his plans to take Tia and her mother to Texas, and the girls, with the help of Tamera's father, plan a divide-and-conquer attack. Original....



  • Determined to outshine her popular twin, Tamera auditions for the school play and is cast in the leading role opposite the handsomest boy in school, but when stardom goes to her head, Tia promises to save her. Original....




  • Twins Tia and Tamera take drastic measures to avoid losing a couple of cute boys, with Tia going out on a double date with her mom, and Tamera agreeing to a night out with the neighborhood nerd. Original....





  • Despite Tia's decision to give up on men, she finds herself dancing with her twin Tamera's date, a rap artist whom Tamera has been actively pursuing, at the spring formal, and soon the twins are facing a difficult situation. Original....




  • Just a phone call away... Amber never thought a long-distance relationship would be this difficult. She loves Rich and he loves her -- it shouldn't matter that he's still in Wyoming while she's back home in New York, right? Not quite. As Amber eases...



  • When T.J. and her dad move to L.A., her fantasies spin out of control. She dreams of meeting the perfect California boyfriend, and strolling along the beach with him, arm in arm...Sure enough, she meets the guy of her dreams-a TV star-and with a litt...



  • Aimee is having a hard time making friends at her new school. But she does capture the attention of a secret admirer who keeps leaving her mysterious notes. When Aimee finally meets Greg face to face, she finds herself in a bizarre situation; Greg ha...



  • Jamie is done with guys. Her last boyfriend not only dumped her-he cheated on her first. So she has no reservations when her two best friends suggest a "No More Boyfriends" pact. The plan works fine, until Jamie gets an au pair job the following summ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janet Quin-Harkin has published 105 books.

Janet Quin-Harkin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kiss and Lie, was published in October 2001.

The first book by Janet Quin-Harkin, Ten-Boy Summer, was published in July 1982.

Yes. Janet Quin-Harkin has 8 series.