Fashion Forward
Imogene, who loves fashion, lands a summer job with a fashion forecasting agency in New York where she learns to be true to herself and her dreams.
Bryant, Annie. Fashion Frenzy
Katani goes to New York City to be in a fashion show. Beacon Street Girls: book 9.
Cabot, Meg. Airhead
16-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
Carlson, Melody. Homecoming Queen
At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and, as the votes roll in, some of the girls grow smarter and closer to God, while others seem to make the same mistakes over again. Carter House Girls: book 3.
Clarke, Nicole. Spin City
Trying to sample all that New York City has to offer before her internship at Flirt magazine ends, 16-year-old Kiyoko overdoes it and gets in trouble at work and with her housemother, but help from unexpected sources leads her to her one true passion. Flirt: book 4.
Collins, Nancy. Night Life
Vampire heiress Lilith Todd flaunts the laws of her people by starting a career as a fashion model while her half sister and archrival Cally Monture pursues a forbidden romance with a vampire hunter. Vamps: book 2.
Daswani, Kavita. Indie Girl
15-year-old Indie Konkipuddi has always dreamed of becoming a fashion reporter. She'd do anything to land an internship with glamorous Celebrity Style magazine-- even babysit publisher Aaralyn Taylor's two-year-old son. Indie's neurosurgeon dad can't understand why Indie would want to spend her weekends picking play-doh off of someone else's Persian carpets, and pretty soon she starts asking herself the same thing.
Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them,16-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 end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Karasyov, Carrie. Summer Intern
Through the course of a summer internship at the fashion magazine Skirt, Kira experiences weird roommates, a not-so-perfect romance, an accusation of theft, and continual confrontation with a fellow intern who happens to be the owner's daughter.
Maude, Rachel. Poseur: a novel
Four prep school girls clash when they try to form their own fashion label for a school assignment, but they ultimately discover that their differences make for surprisingly creative results. Poseur: book 1.
Compiled by Kerry Piraino, May 2009
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