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A Gift of Magic

10 best books like A Gift of Magic (Lois Duncan): Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Ghosts I Have Been, That Was Then, This Is Now, The Pistachio Prescription, Then Again, Maybe I Won't, Behind the Attic Wall, Rumble Fish, Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball, Rumble Fish, The Name of the Game Was Murder

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
AuthorSusan Faludi
ISBN0307345424
Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights

“Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly...
Ghosts I Have Been
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0141310960
An oldie from my childhood which I just finished re-reading this October -- great timing, because it begins on Halloween . . . .

Excellent, and now I remember why I hung onto this so long. I was ghost crazy as a kid, and adored witches, and this book certainly filled the bill. Blossom Culp, social...
That Was Then, This Is Now
AuthorS.E. Hinton
ISBN0140389660
Does growing up have to mean growing apart?

Since childhood, Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers. Now things are changing. Bryon's growing up, spending a lot of time with girls, and thinking seriously about who he wants to be. Mark still just lives for the thrill of the moment. The two...
The Pistachio Prescription
AuthorPaula Danziger
ISBN0142406821
Cassie Stephens is dealing with a lot. She's got asthma. World War III is waged daily in her home, beginning at the breakfast table and ending with slammed doors at night. She's running for freshperson class president. The pressure is mounting, and there's only one thing that can make Cassie feel better....
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
AuthorJudy Blume
ISBN0440486599
Grade 6-10 When his hardworking inventor father strikes it rich and moves the family from working class Jersey City to wealthy Rosemont, Tony Miglione finds that everything from friendships to school takes on a new and confusing twist. Suddenly his mother is intent on climbing the social ladder; his...
Behind the Attic Wall
AuthorSylvia Cassedy
ISBN0380698439
They were watching...and waiting

At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.

Maggie...
Rumble Fish
AuthorS.E. Hinton
ISBN0440975344
Rusty-James is the toughest guy in the group of high-school kids who hang out and shoot pool down at Benny's, and he enjoys keeping up his reputation. What he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. He wants to stay calm and laughing when things get dangerous, to be the toughest...
Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball
AuthorPaul Zindel
Another surprising bookstore find. I'm glad I'm reading this at 30 and not at 15. I think I would have liked it then, but I would've understood it in a different way, probably more intuitively but less concretely.
The main characters, Louis (Marsh) Mellow and Edna Shinglebox, get to know each other...
Rumble Fish
AuthorMarcus Romer
ISBN1583421548
By far, Rumblefish was my favorite S.E. Hinton book when I was a young teenager. I know that The Outsiders is generally considered the best of her young adult work, but I think that Rumblefish is a better book on several levels:

1.It is more honest about the lives of young adults. The Outsiders...
The Name of the Game Was Murder
AuthorJoan Lowery Nixon
ISBN0440219167
What a silly, silly book! Epically ‘90s and cheesy. I read a zillion books like this when I was, like, twelve.

As a kid, I probably would have liked this in a non-ironic way, as opposed to the laughing way that I kind of enjoyed it now. We have an intrepid fifteen-year-old heroine who wants to be...
The Fire
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0590416413
Christina knows the Shevvingtons have left a trail of hollowed-out, lost girls in mental hospitals across the country, and she has seen the secret files that prove it. But the Shevvingtons are determined to destroy the evidence ­ and Christina. This time, they'll use fire. They stuff her pocketbook...
Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling
AuthorEmer McLysaght
Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled.

But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-up - she's floundering.

Because when you're recovering from a broken heart as well as struggling to keep your café as sizzling as your award-winning sausages, it's hard to feel you've...
Tex
AuthorS.E. Hinton
Easygoing, thoughtless, and direct, Tex at fifteen likes everyone and everything, especially his horse, Negrito, and Johnny Collins's blue-eyed sister, Jamie. He thinks life with his seventeen-year-old brother, Mason, in their ramshackle house would be just about perfect if only Mace would stop...
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