A Summer to Die

6 best books like A Summer to Die (Lois Lowry): The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Then Again, Maybe I Won't, It's Not the End of the World, Counting on Grace, Phoenix Rising

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Author	Paula Danziger
ISBN	0142406546

Marcy Lewis is bored by school, she knows she's never going to be thin, and she is dead sure she'll never have a date. Life at home isn't great either, since her father bosses her and her mother around. Then along comes Ms. Finney, an English teacher who'll try anything in the classroom and actually treats...

Izzy, Willy-Nilly

Author	Cynthia Voigt
ISBN	1416903399

One moment can change a life forever.
Fifteen-year-old Izzy has it all -- a loving family, terrific friends, a place on the cheerleading squad. But her comfortable world crumbles when a date with a senior ends in a car crash and she loses her right leg.
Suddenly nothing is the same. The simplest...

Then Again, Maybe I Won't

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0440486599

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...

It's Not the End of the World

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0689842937

Karen couldn't tell Mrs. Singer why she had to have her Viking diorama out of the sixthgrade showcase. She felt like yelling, To keep my parents from getting divorced. But she couldn't say it, and the whole class was looking at her anyway.
Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house...

Counting on Grace

Author

Elizabeth Winthrop

1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed...

Phoenix Rising

Author	Karen Hesse
ISBN	0140376283

Nyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruptions, and mistrust.Nyle...