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10 best books like 13 (Jason Robert Brown): The Things a Brother Knows, Me, the Missing, and the Dead, The Carbon Diaries 2015, Ten Things I Hate About Me, Brain Camp, Strings Attached, Sister Wife, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Tortilla Sun, Thirteen Days to Midnight
The Things a Brother Knows
| Author | Dana Reinhardt |
| ISBN | 0375844554 |
The story of a young marine’s return from war in the Middle East and the psychological effects it has on his family.
Finally, Levi Katznelson’s older brother, Boaz, has returned. Boaz was a high school star who had it all and gave it up to serve in a war Levi can’t understand. Things have...
Me: Lucas Swain: I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy. The Dead: That's...
| Author | Saci Lloyd |
| ISBN | 0340970154 |
[3.5] It takes a lot to get me reading YA ... like the only realistic fictionalisation (that I know of) of a Second World War-style rationing scheme implemented to curb environmental damage and climate change - a dream policy of plenty of hardcore greens. As I've often thought when reading posts by Marxists...
Ten Things I Hate About Me
Randa Abdel-Fattah's new novel about finding your place in life . . . and learning to accept yourself and your culture.
At school I'm Aussie-blonde Jamie -- one of the crowd. At home I'm Muslim Jamilah -- driven mad by my Stone Age dad. I should win an Oscar for my acting skills. But I can't keep it...
| Author | Susan Kim |
| ISBN | 1596433663 |
Neither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation-only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding, settling in with all the other losers and misfits who've been shipped off by their parents...
| Author | Judy Blundell |
| ISBN | 0545221269 |
From National Book Award winner Judy Blundell, the tale of a sixteen-year-old girl caught in a mix of love, mystery, Broadway glamour, and Mob retribution in 1950 New York. When Kit Corrigan arrives in New York City, she doesn't have much. She's fled from her family in Providence, Rhode Island, and she's...
| Author | Shelley Hrdlitschka |
| ISBN | 1551439271 |
In the isolated rural community of Unity, the people of The Movement live a simple life guided by a set of religious principles and laws that are unique to them. Polygamy is the norm, strict obedience is expected and it is customary for young girls to be assigned to much older husbands.
Celeste...
| Author | Josh Berk |
| ISBN | 0375956999 |
Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback. Will can’t hear what’s going on, but he’s a great observer....
| Author | Jennifer Cervantes |
| ISBN | 0811870154 |
When twelve-year-old Izzy discovers a beat-up baseball marked with the words "Becausemagic" while unpacking in yet another new apartment, she is determined to figure out what it means. What secrets does this old ball have to tell? Her mom certainly isn't sharing anyespecially when it comes to Izzy's...
Thirteen Days to Midnight
| Author | Patrick Carman |
| ISBN | 0316004030 |
You are indestructible. Three whispered words transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. At first, Jacob is hesitant to use the power, unsure of its implications. But there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear.
Then Ophelia James, the beautiful...
| Author | J. Torres |
| ISBN | 1934964336 |
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother—a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town... the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0142403903 |
"Feels like I've known him since before he got to the world-longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends really...Somewhere before life on earth..."
--Desire Viola Roselind, "Behind You", P. 24
"Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment."
...
| Author | Chris Lynch |
| ISBN | 0060740345 |
You have to love your family. You do, even if you don't, right? You don't have to understand them or play tennis with them, but you have to love them. It's a rule, and it's the kind of rule you don't break unless you're some kind of animal.
My brother happens to be some kind of animal. My sister rides...
| Author | Michael Harmon |
| ISBN | 0375940995 |
With her martyr-doctor mother gone to save lives in some South American country, Poe Holly suddenly finds herself on the suburban doorstep of the father she never knew, who also happens to be a counselor at her new high school. She misses Los Angeles. She misses the guys in her punk band. Weirdly, she even...
| Author | Eric Luper |
| ISBN | 0061827533 |
Seth Baumgartner just had the worst day of his life.
His girlfriend dumped him (at Applebee's), he spied his father on a date with a woman who is not his mother (also at Applebee's!), and he lost his fourth job of the year. It's like every relationship he cares about is imploding, and he can't figure...
| Author | Gennifer Choldenko |
| ISBN | 0152057536 |
Two worlds collide in one compelling story set in a suburban American middle-school. Kirsten's world is crumbling. Her parents are barely speaking to one another and her best friend has come under the spell of the queen bee Brianna. Walker's goal is to survive the new very white private school his mom...
| Author | Cristina García |
| ISBN | 0739365150 |
Because Yumi Ruíz-Hirsch has grandparents from Japan, Cuba, and Brooklyn, her mother calls her a poster child for the twenty-first century. Yumi would laugh if only her life wasn’t getting as complicated as her heritage. All of a sudden she’s starting eighth grade with a girl who collects tinfoil...
| Author | Ann Dee Ellis |
| ISBN | 0316013641 |
Stuck at home caring for her severely depressed mother and abandoned by her father, Mazzy has only the day-to-day dramas of her neighborhood to keep her busy. But between flirting with the boy next door and worrying about the fact that she's flat-chested, Mazzy has to face the fact that her mom is emotionally...
| Author | Delia Ephron |
| ISBN | 0060747161 |
What does you in—brain or heart? Frannie asks herself this question when, a week before she turns fifteen, her dad dies, leaving her suddenly deprived of the only human being on planet Earth she feels understands her. Frannie struggles to make sense of a world that no longer seems safe, a world in which...
| Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0545074592 |
A dog, a mountain, and an ancient slave ship are featured in this latest page-turner from a versatile, award-winning author.
Climbing Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, is the goal that Henry sets himself when his brother dies following a car accident. Along with his dog, his best friend,...
| Author | Gene Fehler |
| ISBN | 0618843485 |
It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever.
In this riveting...
| Author | Robin Epstein |
| ISBN | 0803733828 |
Fifteen-year-old Grace Manning is a candy striper in a nursing home, and Mr. Sands is the one patient who makes the job bearable. He keeps up with her sarcasm, teaches her to play poker . . . and one day cheerfully asks her to help him die. At first Grace says no way, but as Mr. Sands's disease progresses, she's...
| Author | Ellen Booraem |
| ISBN | 0152063684 |
Medford lives on a neat, orderly island called—simply—Island.
Islanders like names that say exactly what a thing (or a person) is or does. Nothing less.
Islanders like things (and people) to do what their names say they will. Nothing more.
In fact, everything...
Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0689852819 |
Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best friend. Or the thousand other things that can go wrong between...
