A Thief in the House of Memory
10 best books like A Thief in the House of Memory (Tim Wynne-Jones): Wrecked, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, Signed, Skye Harper, Believe, Eyes of the Emperor, Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl, Spacer and Rat, Theories of Relativity, The Dollmage, Gringolandia
| Author | E.R. Frank |
| ISBN | 0689873840 |
A tragic car wreck leads to PTSD and therapeutic salvation in this novel from the author of America, which Kirkus Reviews deemed “a work of sublime humanity.”
Anna is involved in a horrific accident one night that leaves her brother’s beautiful and popular girlfriend dead. Suffering...
People Live Still in Cashtown Corners
| Author | Tony Burgess |
| ISBN | 1926851048 |
so i love this book, but writing the review for it is pissing me off a little bit. as a procrastination tactic, because i really didn't feel like burrowing back into my paper just yet, i thought, "i shall write a very informed review for once; one which edifies its readers and is full of facts and figures and...
| Author | Carol Lynch Williams |
| ISBN | 1481400320 |
In trying to reunite with her mother, Winston discovers the many meanings of family and finds friendship in an unexpected place in this coming-of-age novel from the author of Waiting, which Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, called "exceptional" and Glimpse, which Booklist called "gripping."
Life...
| Author | Sarah Aronson |
| ISBN | 1467706973 |
Janine Friedman is famous. She’s the miraculous ‘soul survivor’ of a suicide bombing in a Jerusalem synagogue ten years ago. The bombing killed both her parents and changed not only her life, but also that of Dave Armstrong, the tourist who dug her out of the rubble and ‘found God’ as a result....
| Author | Graham Salisbury |
| ISBN | 0440229561 |
Eddy Okana lies about his age and joins the Army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers.
Then the Army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American...
| Author | Debra Garfinkle |
| ISBN | 0142407828 |
The journal of Michael "Storky" Pomerantz tells the tumultuous tale of life as a high-schooler—complete with the fact that the love of his life is dating a high school football player. As he chronicles the highs—and, of course, the most embarrassing lows—of his freshman year in high school,...
| Author | Margaret Bechard |
| ISBN | 1596430583 |
Jack knows who belongs out in the Black. And who doesn't -- until Kit comes walking into the pub and changes everything he believes about the Black, about the people who live there, about what it takes to be a human being. Margaret Bechard set out to write an adventure story with laser guns ad spaceships....
| Author | Barbara Haworth-Attard |
| ISBN | 0805077901 |
My fingers search the cardboard container, but I’ve finished the fries. I squirt ketchup on my fingers and lick it off. I’m never full. I think it was one of the reasons I had to leave, or, rather, my mother kicked me out. Jenna’s a runaway, but I’m a throwaway. Tossed out. Like garbage.
Keep...
| Author | Martine Leavitt |
| ISBN | 0889952337 |
"Benjamin Franklin Juvenile Young Adult Fiction Award Nomination ALA/YALSA Best Books for Young Adults Selection
Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Citation"
The Dollmage is the wise woman of Seekvalley. As her powers weaken and age comes upon her, she knows she must...
| Author | Lyn Miller-Lachmann |
| ISBN | 1931896496 |
Daniel’s papá, Marcelo, used to play soccer, dance the cueca, and drive his kids to school in a beat-up green taxi—all while publishing an underground newspaper that exposed Chile’s military regime.After papá’s arrest in 1980, Daniel’s family fled to the United States. Now Daniel has...
| Author | Geert Spillebeen |
| ISBN | 0618800352 |
As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.
When World War I broke out, John, like his father...
| Author | Tammar Stein |
| ISBN | 0375830235 |
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer programmer. Two college students. A grandmother and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to...
| Author | Alfred C. Martino |
| ISBN | 0547564244 |
I AM SO FREAKING MAD RIGHT NOW!
Okay, enough all caps. But seriously, I am mad. I was gifted this audiobook by SYNC during the summer. It isn't a story subject I would normally find interesting nor would I choose to spend my time reading/listening to, but it was free and I did find it interesting....
| Author | Jennifer Richard Jacobson |
| ISBN | 1416913378 |
The Book I read Is called Stained written by Jennifer Richard Jacobson. Stained is a Fiction story with alot of suspence, you'll never know whats going to happen next! The main character in this book is Jocelyn, a young girl who lives the usual life but she's sometimes confused. The theme in this book is...
| Author | Stephanie Hemphill |
| ISBN | 0786837454 |
Sarah used to be the good girl. The one who always had her hand raised in class, always obeyed her parents.
Until she met Robin. Once Robin comes into the picture, Sarah's life changes. Her closet begins to fill with black clothes. Good grades become something to be studiously avoided. And maintaining...
| Author | E.E. Richardson |
| ISBN | 0552552615 |
Joel Demetrius is quite looking forward to moving in with his new step-family, but as far as his sister Cassie's concerned, they're nothing but intruders. She doesn't want anything to do with Gerald and his two sons, and to make matters worse their new home is a derelict old house, neglected for decades....
| Author | Will Weaver |
| ISBN | 0374324859 |
The times they are a-changin' . . .
The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family farm. You need to meet the public, she says, which is saying a lot for a woman deeply committed to the tightly knit religious community to which...
| Author | Melissa Lion |
| ISBN | 0375839542 |
Marty’s small town in Alaska is the most beautiful place in the world. There she and her beloved boyfriend, Steven, can walk through fields of fireweed, explore the wild, and tie pink floozy fishing lures to catch the salmon that swim upstream. But when she starts her senior year, Marty must return...
When respected ex–Canadian Forces commander Bern Fortin cuts short his military career to take a job as the coroner for a small mountain town in the heart of BC, he’s hoping to leave the past behind. Bern’s looking forward to a quiet life, but the memories of what he witnessed during his stints in...
| Author | Maurice Sendak |
| ISBN | 0439880505 |
Maurice Sendak's first pop-up book!
They're all here! Everybody's favorite monsters are just going about their business when a plucky little boy wanders into their cuckoo house. And what does he want? He wants Mommy!
No matter how scary these monsters are, there's no besting a little...
Every Time a Rainbow Dies
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0064473031 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
In a beautifully written but hard-hitting tale about the harsh realities of life, African-American author Rita Williams-Garcia offers the elegantly poignant young adult novel Every Time a Rainbow Dies. Sixteen-year-old Thulani has been adrift in his...
| Author | Vikki VanSickle |
| ISBN | 1443102350 |
Brilliant. Best-ever. That was how grade seven was supposed to be, but so far things aren't turning out as well as Clarissa Delaney had planned. It's hard enough being the unexceptional daughter of a bona-fide beauty queen, but lately her best friend Benji can't seem to stand up for himself, Michael...
| Author | Norah McClintock |
| ISBN | 0439957605 |
The latest book in the Chloe and Levesque series, with the dramatic new series look. Chloe has a kind of grudging respect for David Mitchell, even though he appears to have a spring-loaded temper, so when he’s charged with the murder of Trevor Blake, she can’t decide whether he’s guilty or not....
