After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
10 best books like After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (Joyce Carol Oates): All We Know of Heaven, Aftershock, M+O 4EVR, 47, The ABC's of Kissing Boys, Simon & Sophie, Freaks and Revelations, Accidents of Nature, My One Hundred Adventures, Rock Star Superstar
| Author | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| ISBN | 0061345784 |
Bridget Flannery and Maureen O'Malley have been BFFs since forever. Then a brief moment of inattention on an icy road leaves one girl dead and the other in a coma, battered beyond recognition. Family and friends mourn one friend's loss and pray for the other's recovery. Then the doctors discover they...
| Author | Kelly Easton |
| ISBN | 1416900527 |
TORMENT: EXTREME PAIN OR ANGUISH OF BODY OR MINDSeventeen-year-old Adam is tormented. His parents have just been killed in a car crash in Idaho, and he has survived. In a speechless state of shock, Adam begins walking home, back to Rhode Island. But he can't think in a straight line: The past and present...
| Author | Tonya Cherie Hegamin |
| ISBN | 0618495703 |
There are two constants in Opal’s life: her dad’s grungy green baseball cap, and her troubled pal, Marianne, whom Opal loves as a best friend . . . and even more. But nothing stays the same forever. When Opal receives the horrifying news that Marianne is dead, she suddenly must live her life and make...
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| ISBN | 0316016357 |
Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom.
A gripping Young Adult fiction debut by bestselling author Walter Mosley.
Walter Mosley is one of the best known writers in America. In his first book for young adults,...
The ABC's of Kissing Boys
| Author | Tina Ferraro |
| ISBN | 0385735820 |
Parker Stanhope has played soccer practically since she could walk. And now that she’s a high school junior, everything she’s worked for is finally coming together. She’s paid her dues on the field, and as an upperclassman, she’s a shoo-in for the varsity team. But that’s not what happens.
This...
| Author | Emma Granholm |
| ISBN | 9150109251 |
Sophie är 15 år och skolans snyggaste tjej, alltid omgiven av beundrande kompisar. Simon är en av dem som ständigt trackas av Sophie och hennes gäng.
På påsklovet är alla Sophies vänner bortresta och i brist på annat knackar hon på hos Simon i huset intill. Han blir både förvånad...
| Author | Davida Wills Hurwin |
| ISBN | 0316049964 |
This raw, moving novel follows two teenagers-one, a Mohawk-wearing 17-year-old violent misfit; the other, a gay 13-year-old cast out by his family, hustling on the streets and trying to survive. Acclaimed author Davida Wills Hurwin creates a riveting narrative told in alternating perspectives...
| Author | Harriet McBryde Johnson |
| ISBN | 0805076344 |
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,...
| Author | Polly Horvath |
| ISBN | 0375955828 |
THE WINNER OF a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and countless other awards has written her richest, most spirited book yet, filled with characters that readers will love, and never forget.
Jane is 12 years old, and she is ready for adventures, to move beyond the world of her siblings and...
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| ISBN | 0142405744 |
Music is Pete's life. He's happiest when playing his Fender P-Bass. He doesn't care about prestige or getting girls; it's the quality of the music that matters. Then he meets the Carlisle brothers. They can't sing and they can barely play, but somehow they have a following. Pete can't resist, and he joins...
| Author | Robert Lipsyte |
| ISBN | 0060599464 |
The pressure is on.
At Nearmont High School, football stars are treated like royalty, and Matt Rydek has just ascended to the throne. As co-captain of the Raiders, he's got it all, or so it seems: hot girls, all the right friends, plenty of juice to make him strong, and a winning team poised to go...
| Author | Michael Simmons |
| ISBN | 1595140751 |
Not too shabby. It definitely was a welcome diversion from all of the supernatural/romance/football books that currently glut the young adult genre. Evan MacAlister is rich, but not spoiled--at least from his point of view--and this is his main complaint. As a way of retaliating against his father's...
| Author | Barbara Hall |
| ISBN | 0385733283 |
At the age of 16, it's standard procedure for every girl at Lynnie Russo's posh Los Angeles prep school to get a car. So on her 16th birthday, Lynnie is startled when she opens the small gift box from her father—it doesn't contain the shiny new set of keys she was expecting. Instead she finds a worn-out...
| Author | Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson |
| ISBN | 0440238528 |
Robin’s neighbor Frankie is like walking sex. He’s 23, hot, charming, and used to getting what he wants. When Janice, Robin’s stepmom, first meets Frankie, they lock eyes with an almost audible sizzle. Not long after, Robin discovers they’re having an affair. She is shocked, angry, curious,...
| Author | Jenny Moss |
| ISBN | 0802721931 |
Reimagining the days surrounding this unforgettable event in history, readers are brought back to 1986 as the astronauts prepare for the Challenger mission, and Christa McAullife trains to be the first teacher in space. When a teen named Annie meets Christa, she is fascinated by Christa's courage....
| Author | Ross Raisin |
| ISBN | 0670917354 |
Ross Raisin wrote one of my favourite books of last year, and indeed of all time, God's Own Country, so I'd had his second novel Waterline pegged as a must-read since its release. Although I found it equally impossible to put down - reading the book from cover to cover in one sitting - Waterline is a very different...
Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine
| Author | Stephen Braun |
| ISBN | 0140268456 |
Alcohol and caffeine are by far the most widely consumed mind-altering drugs in the world today. So shouldn't we know a little more about the substances which give us that much needed shot in the arm, or that take the edge off a rough day? In this endlessly entertaining and informative collection of coffee...
| Author | Matt Christopher |
| ISBN | 0316142735 |
This book is realistic fiction. I really liked this book especily the beginning. I like how he didnt give up when he was doing bad and when people would put him down. he still kept trying his hardest. I also liked how the book would give you the play by play of the game so you could under stand what was going on....
| Author | Patricia McArdle |
| ISBN | 1594487960 |
An American diplomat is forced to confront the devastation of her past when she is assigned to remote northern Afghanistan.
Twenty-one years ago, diplomat Angela Morgan witnessed the death of her husband during the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Devastated by her loss, she fled back...
| Author | Rosamond Smith |
| ISBN | 1504045130 |
Demure Lily Merrick is a dutiful housewife and mother who teaches pottery classes in upstate New York. Then, out of the blue, her estranged sister, Sharon, shows up after fifteen years, seeking refuge from her life as a Las Vegas stripper. At first Lily is overwhelmed and overjoyed. Her daughter and...
The minute the school bus carrying Nate Chance and his little sister, Junie, pulls up in front of his family's farmhouse, Nate can tell something's terribly wrong: Somehow his father has been wounded by a gunshot. Nate sees him stagger across the yard, then watches as the police take him away. Then, nothing....
| Author | Sonya Hartnett |
| ISBN | 0763647608 |
Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, and at ease. The strength of the objects she stores in a briefcase under her bed —a crystal lamb, a yoyo, an antique watch, a coin...
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
| Author | Greg Johnson |
| ISBN | 0452279712 |
Johnson reveals little-known facts about Oates's personal and family history and debunks many of the myths that have arisen about this brilliant, enigmatic woman. Johnson takes readers from Oates's impoverished childhood in upstate New York and the birth of her autistic sister through Oates's...
Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama's Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security
| Author | Michael Savage |
| ISBN | 0062010972 |
Michael Savage—conservative talk radio host and #1 New York Times bestselling author—takes on President Obama’s socialist agenda, his Chicago-style strong-arm tactics, and his Lenin-like complex in Trickle Up Poverty. Savage’s quest is to help American’s save America from economic...
| Author | Robert Barclay |
| ISBN | 0062002171 |
In this unforgettable novel of love, hope & 2nd chances, a grieving man's personal plan for redemption is suddenly & unexpectedly turned upside down. Devastated by the senseless deaths of his wife & son at the hands of a drunk driver, Wyatt Blaine remains unable to forgive or to love again....
