A Closer Look
10 best books like A Closer Look (Karen DelleCava): Love & Haight, Thunder Over Kandahar, Between Before and After, Jersey Tomatoes are the Best, Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln, Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map, A Time of Miracles, My Name is Not Easy, Never Sit Down in a Hoopskirt and Other Things I Learned in Southern Belle Hell, I'm With Stupid
It’s 1971, and seventeen-year-old Chloe and her best friend MJ head to San Francisco to ring in the New Year. But Chloe has an ulterior motive—and a secret. She’s pregnant and has devised a plan not to be. In San Francisco’s flower-power heyday, it was (just about) legal to end her pregnancy.
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| Author | Sharon E. McKay |
| ISBN | 1554512662 |
A powerful novel of enduring friendship set amid the terror and chaos of present-day Afghanistan. Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burns down the school...
| Author | Maureen Doyle McQuerry |
| ISBN | 0310767385 |
“The carnage began with the roses. She hacked at their ruffled blooms until they dropped into monstrous drifts of red on the parched yellow lawn … Only two things kept my mother grounded to us: my uncle Stephen and stories.”
Fourteen-year-old Molly worries about school, friends, and...
| Author | Maria Padian |
| ISBN | 0375865799 |
This is a hilarious and heartbreaking story of two teen girls and the summer when everything changes for them. Both Henry and Eva are New Jersey natives and excellent athletes: Henry's a master on the tennis court and Eva is a graceful ballerina. When opportunity knocks for both of them the summer before...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399254714 |
Michael and Derek don't expect the adventure of a lifetime visiting a Civil War museum with their grandmother. But the mysterious museum keeper invites them to play a game, and before they know it, they're walking through a door straight into a very realistic depiction of 1863. They see the destruction...
| Author | Sue Macy |
| ISBN | 0823421635 |
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball, and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team...
| Author | Anne-Laure Bondoux |
| ISBN | 0385739222 |
Winner of the Batchelder Award--this tale of of exile, sacrifice, hope, and survival is a story of ultimate love.
Blaise Fortune, also known as Koumaïl, loves hearing the story of how he came to live with Gloria in the Republic of Georgia: Gloria was picking peaches in her father’s orchard...
| Author | Debby Dahl Edwardson |
| ISBN | 0761459804 |
Luke knows his I'nupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. He knows he'll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School things are different. Instead of family, there are students -- Eskimo, Indian,...
Never Sit Down in a Hoopskirt and Other Things I Learned in Southern Belle Hell
| Author | Crickett Rumley |
| ISBN | 1606841319 |
Expelled from thirteen boarding schools in the past five years, seventeen-year-old Jane Fontaine Ventouras is returning to her Southern roots, and the small town of Bienville, Alabama, where ladies always wear pearls, nothing says hospitality like sweet tea
and pimento cheese sandwiches,...
| Author | Geoff Herbach |
| ISBN | 1402277911 |
Felton Reinstein has never been good with stress. Which is why he's seriously freaking out. Revealing his college choice on national TV? It's a heart attack waiting to happen. Deciding on a major for the next four years of his life? Ridiculous. He barely even knows who he is outside of football. And so...he...
| Author | Laura McNeal |
| ISBN | 0375831061 |
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Sixteen-year-old Lana Morris wishes her life were different: her Ice Queen of a foster mother won't leave her alone, and she has no friends but the other foster kids she takes care of.
Then...
| Author | Dale E. Basye |
| ISBN | 0375856765 |
With more clever, dark humor and zany silliness, Dale E. Basye sends Milton and Marlo Fauster back for thirds in another laugh-out-loud installment of the popular series Heck.
After his second escape from Bea "Elsa" Bubb, the Principal of Darkness, Milton Fauster makes his way to Blimpo—the...
Love Will Keep Us Together
| Author | Anne Dayton |
| ISBN | 0446407585 |
Riley McGee has the whole world open before her. She could get into any college, major in any subject, become whoever she wants to be. . . . But the truth is, Riley has no earthly idea what to do. She's paralyzed by indecision, afraid of the changes she faces, and as graduation day inches closer, it feels more...
| Author | Rebecca Fjelland Davis |
| ISBN | 0738721301 |
Dumped with relatives in a small Minnesota town for the summer, Sadie Lester is relying on her mountain bike to save her from total boredom. Then she meets Allie, a spiky-haired off-road mountain biker who's training for a major race. Allie leads Sadie and Joe, a cute fellow cyclist, up and down Mount...
| Author | Robert Burleigh |
| ISBN | 1416967338 |
“Hearts will be racing.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A work to inspire further learning.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Vivid.” —The Horn Book
A picture book biography of the first woman in flight—Amelia Earhart—by NCTE Orbis Pictus Award-winner...
| Author | Cecil Castellucci |
| ISBN | 0763627208 |
On the outside, Libby Brin is the most popular girl in school. But on the inside, Libby is dying — of boredom. In a moment of desperation, Libby signs up for an internship at the Los Angeles Zoo, much to the dismay of her friends, who’d prefer she spend her time with them, shopping, partying, and making...
| Author | Anna Kerz |
| ISBN | 1554693624 |
In this stand-alone sequel to The Mealworm Diaries, Aaron is anxiously waiting for his father to return for the first time since Aaron's mother's death eight years earlier. Aaron works hard with a counselor at school, but he still has problems getting along with and understanding other kids, and he's...
| Author | Paul B. Janeczko |
| ISBN | 0763647276 |
Paul B. Janeczko's stirring collection of poems goes inside the walls of the notorious camp to portray the indomitable spirit of those incarcerated there.
Hitler hailed Terez�n (Theresienstadt) as a haven for artistic Jews, when in reality the Czech concentration camp was little more...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 1416989986 |
Clean, cold, white snow! Snow for sledding. Snow for catching on your tongue. Snow for making a SNOWMAN! Is there anything as wonderful as SNOW? Is there any better friend than a SNOWMAN? Snow isn't forever, though. The wind shifts, the weather warms and snow melts into spring. The Snowman has become...
The GM: The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the Nightmares that Go with It
| Author | Tom Callahan |
| ISBN | 0307394131 |
In the summer of 2006, the NFL’s most senior general manager, Ernie Accorsi, invited Tom Callahan “inside” the Giants organization to experience a season—Accorsi’s last—from the front office, the locker room, the sidelines, and the tunnel. Tom made no promises, except that he’d...
| Author | Jan Blazanin |
| ISBN | 1606841912 |
I’d like to say something clever, but my tongue is paralyzed. This guy is tall and built and—okay, maybe he’s not exactly handsome. Wait, that’s not true. He is exactly handsome. From ten feet away I can see the electric blue of his eyes. All of that put together makes him the Superman of redheads.
After...
A Girl Named Willow Krimble
| Author | Giuseppe Bianco |
| ISBN | 1461050200 |
So, you’ve just discovered that the person who has tormented, mocked and humiliated you for the past three years is lying in the school parking lot, bleeding internally from a hit and run accident. No one else is around and you need to get to a life-and-death family emergency of your own before it is too...
Nice young ladies really shouldn’t be dumping bodies at sea. But that isn’t stopping Hazel Moran, and she still can’t figure out why anyone thinks she’s nice to begin with. Raised aboard a schooner and riding shotgun in her father’s old 18-wheeler, there’s little on the road or water that...
