Really good books about Romances that take place in the South?

Question

Any really realy really really good books that are about young teenagers in love that live in the south? (american south).
Such as: The notebook.

Answer 1

I don't know about teenagers, but any books by Dorthea Benton Frank and (especially) Mary Kay Andrews are AWESOME! I'd suggest Hissy Fit, it's excellent.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780060564650&itm=1

Answer 2

I dont know really in the deep south, but The Notebook and A walk to remember, both books written by Nicholas Sparks. THose are the only two i know.

Answer 3

Gone With the Wind

Answer 4

Gone With The Wind (not teenagers though)

Answer 5

There's "Gone With the Wind"! The beginning is hard to plough through but there were parts of it that I really loved.

Answer 6

Did anyone mention Gone with the wind? Never mind I'll think about it tomorrow.

Answer 7

Teenaged romances? These aren't in the south...
Forever (Judy Blume)

"Going all the way" is still a taboo subject in young adult literature. Judy Blume was the first author to write candidly about a sexually active teen, and she's been defending teenagers' rights to read about such subjects ever since. Here, Blume tells a convincing tale of first love--a love that seems strong and true enough to last forever. Katherine loves Michael so much, in fact, that she's willing to lose her virginity to him, and, as the months go by, it gets harder and harder for her to imagine living without him. However, something happens when they are separated for the summer: Katherine begins to have feelings for another guy. What does this mean about her love for Michael? What does this mean about love in general? What does "forever" mean, anyway? As always, Blume writes as if she's never forgotten a moment of what it's like to be a teenager


ARMAGEDDON SUMMER (Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville)

Reverend Raymond Beelson is gathering 144 "Believers" atop Mount Weeupcut in Massachusetts to camp out, pray, and await Armageddon--July 27, 2000--when he predicts that his faithful flock will be saved as the rest of the world is set ablaze in fire and brimstone. We experience the month leading up to this climax through the eyes of two teenagers who have never met before, Jed and Marina, each of whom have come to the compound out of a sense of responsibility toward their families. Young Jed is only on the mountain to watch over his father who "went a little crazy" after his wife left the family: "When my father told me that the world was going to end I figured he was making some sort of weird joke." Jed's sarcasm, humor, and flippancy toward the Believers does not erase the love he feels for his newly devout father, nor his capacity for empathy toward members of the congregation. Marina is a Believer, or so she tries to be, in the hope that somehow her faith will restore harmony to her family. She has traveled to the mountain with her younger brothers at her mother's fervent insistence, but her fear that her father will remain below with the rest of the nonbelievers to burn alive unnerves her. Portraits of the two teens, thrust into a frightening situation that shuttles them suddenly into adulthood.

Briar Rose (Jane Yolen) Non-traditional
In Yolen's modern-day version, the wall of thorns becomes a barbed-wire prison, while the sleeping princess is both victim and heroine. The latest in the "Fairy Tale" series showcases Yolen's skill at transforming the real world into a realm of fantasy-- Yolen takes the story of Briar Rose (commonly known as Sleeping Beauty) and links it to the Holocaust--a far-from-obvious connection that she makes perfectly convincing. Rebecca Berlin, a young woman who has grown up hearing her grandmother Gemma tell an unusual and frightening version of the Sleeping Beauty legend, realizes when Gemma dies that the fairy tale offers one of the very few clues she has to her grandmother's past. To discover the facts behind Gemma's story, Rebecca travels to Poland, the setting for the book's most engrossing scenes and its most interesting, best-developed characters. By interpolating Gemma's vivid and imaginative story into the larger narrative, Yolen has created an engrossing novel. She handles a difficult subject with finesse in a book that should be required reading for anyone who is tempted to dismiss fantasy as a frivolous genre.

You might also look up the work of Gail Carson Levine, (who wrote Ella Enchanted.) She writes YA romance, but again, it is not southern.

And see if Fannie Flagg wrote a romance--she writes "southern" (fried green tomatoes)

Answer 8

" Gone With The Wind "

Answer 9

'Cold Sassy Tree' by Olive Ann Burns

Answer 10

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee