Fantasy. When Bailey Morgan and her three best friends apply the temporary tattoos they just bought at the mall, they are bestowed with supernatural powers. Now Bailey can start fires with her thoughts, Zo has premonitions, Annabelle can read minds, and Delia can transmogrify things--that is, change anything into anything else (handy when you absolutely must have a new pair of Prada pumps). Trouble is, the girls are also magically bound by the tattoos to take part in a dangerous battle between three ancient fairies, one of whom is out to destroy all of humanity. If you love the Sisterhood series but wish that its magical elements were intensified, this fast-paced story with a quartet of "spunky, fun-loving, and sometimes cranky" (Booklist) heroines is for you.

Fiction. "Call it the Nunnery of the Traveling Pants," quips Booklist about this light, quickly paced story of first loves and college dreams. The newly established Victoria A. Treemont college scholarship fund entails mostly standard requirements for application, with one quirk: candidates for the hefty award "must exemplify purity of soul and body." High school seniors and close friends Mandy, Debbie, Eva and Kai are competing for the scholarship and form the V Club (yep, it's what you think it is) to increase the odds that one of them will win it. But will their friendships endure the feuds and emotional roller coaster rides that follow? Good, clean fun--and a practically perfect beach read.

Fiction. Sisters Geena, Ambajit (Amber), and Jazvinder (Jazz) are smart, popular, and lavishly indulged by their hard-working, often absent dad--even more so since their mother's death a year ago. The girls try to put up a brave, cheerful, perfectly-together front (while privately grieving), and their dad constantly buys them designer clothes and expensive sneakers. But things start to change when their father's sister moves from India to their England home to run the household and look after the girls. Auntie, it seems, wants to cramp their Bindi Babe style, so the sisters decide they'll get rid of her...by finding her a husband. This funny and heartwarming story pays tribute to the power of love, family, and friends.

Fiction. Jess and Sari have been united against cliquey girls (especially "the Prada Mafia") since seventh grade, but now that they're starting high school, Sari's obsession with popular senior David Cole threatens their friendship. Jess still likes science fiction movies and drawing, and is aware that she doesn't top the "hotness" scale; her greatest ambition at the beginning of high school is getting out of gym class. Sari, on the other hand, is hot, knows it, and is waging a full-on campaign to win David's attention. Will Jess and Sari end up separated into the opposite camps of geeky and cool, or will their friendship survive freshman year?

Fiction. Nina Bermudez, Avery Dekker, and Melanie Forrest have been such close friends for so long that they have a group nickname (the title of this book). But when super-organized student council president Nina goes off to a summer leadership program at Stanford for ten weeks before their senior year, Avery and Mel's friendship turns romantic. Author Maureen Johnson--whose 13 Little Blue Envelopes should also be a hit with Sisterhood fans--creates very real characters in this fun yet serious novel about identity, friendship and love.

Fiction. In this story told entirely in letters, e-mails, journal entries, etc., best friends and snooty-private-school students Lydia, Emily, and Cassie are paired up with pen pals from nearby Brookfield High--a much rougher school--for an English assignment. They all end up writing to guys, and the assignment leads to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and, ultimately, an all-out war between the two schools. Australian author Jaclyn Moriarty places her fabulous characters in a breathtaking series of hilarious (and legally questionable) situations, but these BFFs stay true to one another through it all.