BooksList.Best
Search

A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life

10 best books like A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life (Dana Reinhardt): Solace of the Road, The Loud Silence of Francine Green, Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things, Wait for Me, Fault Line, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, Boy Girl Boy, Accidents of Nature, Bucking the Sarge, When the Black Girl Sings

Solace of the Road
AuthorSiobhan Dowd
ISBN0375849718
Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her.

Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on...
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
AuthorKaren Cushman
ISBN0618504559
Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence....
Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things
AuthorKathryn Burak
ISBN1596437367
When Claire's best friend Richy went missing, he disappeared without a trace. But when Emily Dickinson's dress goes missing from the Amherst museum, she knows exactly where it is: in her closet.
As Claire and her student teacher, Tate, attempt to figure out what do to about the dress, they begin...
Wait for Me
AuthorAn Na
ISBN0399242759
Mina is the perfect daughter. Bound for Harvard, she's Honor Society president and a straight-A student, even as she works at her family's dry-cleaning store and helps care for her hearingimpaired little sister. On the outside, Mina does everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her life...
Fault Line
AuthorJanet Tashjian
ISBN0805080635
A hard-hitting novel that breaks open the gritty world of teen relationship abuse

Seventeen-year-old Becky Martin dreams of being a stand-up comic. She also craves the affection of a boyfriend. When attractive Kip, a rising star in the San Francisco comedy club scene, comes into Becky's...
The Patron Saint of Butterflies
AuthorCecilia Galante
ISBN1599902494
Agnes and Honey have always been best friends, but they haven't always been so different. Agnes loves being a Believer. She knows the rules at the Mount Blessing religious commune are there to make her a better person. Honey hates Mount Blessing and the control Emmanuel, their leader, has over her life....
Boy Girl Boy
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0152058656
Larry, Teresa, and Elliot are so tight, there's no room in their circle for more than three: boy, girl, boy. And when they graduate, they plan to move to California to start their real lives--together.
    
But who are they fooling? Larry is gay and trying to come to terms with his sexuality....
Accidents of Nature
AuthorHarriet McBryde Johnson
ISBN0805076344
Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara,...
Bucking the Sarge
AuthorChristopher Paul Curtis
ISBN0440413311
Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan.

As his best friend Sparky says, “Flint’s nothing but the Titanic.”

And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, “Take my advice and stay off the sucker path.”

The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum...
When the Black Girl Sings
AuthorBil Wright
ISBN1416939954
Lahni Schuler is the only black student at her private prep school. She's also the adopted child of two loving, but white, parents who are on the road to divorce. Struggling to comfort her mother and angry with her dad, Lahni feels more and more alone. But when Lahni and her mother attend a local church one...
What's in a Name
AuthorEllen Wittlinger
ISBN0689845324
I was so excited to re-read this book. Someone gave it to me when I was in junior high (2002ish, probably, when it was new). It popped into my mind about a year ago and for the longest time I could not remember what it was called and couldn't find my old copy. Finally someone on Goodreads solved it for me - look...
Cures for Heartbreak
AuthorMargo Rabb
ISBN0385734026
"If she dies, I'll die," are the words 15-year-old Mia Perlman writes in her journal the night her mother is diagnosed with cancer. Twelve days later, Mia's mother is dead, and Mia, her older sister, and their father must find a way to live on in the face of sudden, unfathomable loss.

For Mia, this...
Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0152063013
A poignant, humorous collection by acclaimed poet Gary Soto

The fleeting emotions of teenagers, as changeable as the weather, ring true in these emotionally resonant poems. Told from the point of view of both boys and girls, narrators of various ethnicities fall in love for the first time,...
The Big Game of Everything
AuthorChris Lynch
ISBN0060740345
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...
The Last Chance Texaco
AuthorBrent Hartinger
The guy looked at me with a stare that would have frozen antifreeze.

"You the new groupie, huh?"

"Yeah," I said. "So?"

"So no one wants you here. Why don't you go back where you came from?"

I can't go back, I wanted to say. That was the thing about living in a group home....
Love, Cajun Style
AuthorDiane Les Becquets
ISBN1582346747
It’s the summer before Lucy’s senior year in high school, and life in her sleepy Louisiana town is about to be turned upside down. Her mama’s flirting with the dark stranger who runs the art gallery, her best friends Mary Jordan and Evie have boys on the brain, the drama teacher is sparking some powerful...
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
AuthorCristina García
ISBN0739365150
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...
Everything Is Fine.
AuthorAnn Dee Ellis
ISBN0316013641
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...
13
AuthorJason Robert Brown
13 Things to Know About 13

1. This book is about a guy named Evan.

2. Three months before his 13th birthday, he has to move from New York City 3. to Appleton, Indiana,

4. where nobody knows him.

5. He's not very happy about it.

6. His mom is kind of nuts.

7....
Frannie in Pieces
AuthorDelia Ephron
ISBN0060747161
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...
Jump the Cracks
AuthorStacy DeKeyser
ISBN0738712744
Angry that her dad (once again) fails to be at the train station when she arrives in New York City, fifteen-year-old Victoria has had it with her divorced parents and their broken promises. Earlier on the train ride, Victoria witnesses some rough treatment towards a little two-year-old boy. Victoria...
Crunch Time
AuthorMariah Fredericks
Leo, Max, Jane, and Daisy don't have much in common. But when they all blow off their SAT prep in favor of forming their own study group, they actually begin to bond -- over why there's so much competition over a stupid test. And what it really measures, anyway.

Then it's revealed that someone has...
Once Was Lost
AuthorSara Zarr
ISBN0307582302
Samara Taylor used to believe in miracles. But her mother is in rehab, and her father seems more interested in his congregation than his family. And when a young girl in her small town is kidnapped, her already-worn thread of faith begins to unravel. (Young Adults)

Samara Taylor used to believe...
Beginner's Luck
AuthorLaura Pedersen
ISBN0345458303
“There could be no doubt left in anyone’s mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song.”

The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an uncanny gift for winning at games of chance,...
Tripping
AuthorHeather Waldorf
ISBN0889954267
An opportunity to escape a dull summer -- and perhaps to find a future for herself after high school - persuades Rainey Williamson to join a school-sponsored program that will take her and five other teenagers on an eight-week road trip across Canada. The challenge of this journey is heightened, in view...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024