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10 best books like An Innocent Soldier (Josef Holub): The Minister's Daughter, Full Tilt, The Thief Lord, Forgotten Fire, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy, The Radleys, Among the Impostors, Can't Get There from Here, Nothing to Lose

The Minister's Daughter
AuthorJulie Hearn
ISBN0689876912
“Powers of the air, be here now. So mote it be.”

Conceived on May Morning, Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife . . . and, some say, a witch.

Grace is everything Nell is not....
Full Tilt
AuthorNeal Shusterman
ISBN0689873255
Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher when Blake has to chase Quinn into a bizarre phantom...
The Thief Lord
AuthorCornelia Funke
ISBN1903434777
Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city of Venice.

Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with...
Forgotten Fire
AuthorAdam Bagdasarian
ISBN0440229170
A National Book Award Finalist.

In 1915 Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege as the youngest son of a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. This secure world is shattered when some family members are whisked away while others are murdered before his eyes.

Vahan loses his home...
The Patron Saint of Butterflies
AuthorCecilia Galante
ISBN1599902494
Agnes and Honey have always been best friends, but they haven't always been so different. Agnes loves being a Believer. She knows the rules at the Mount Blessing religious commune are there to make her a better person. Honey hates Mount Blessing and the control Emmanuel, their leader, has over her life....
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
AuthorSonya Sones
ISBN0064462188
Continuously in print for nearly two decades, this groundbreaking and profoundly moving story told in verse, from award-winning author Sonya Sones, has been repackaged with a striking new cover and bonus content.

When her beloved older sister is hospitalized after a sudden mental breakdown,...
The Radleys
AuthorMatt Haig
ISBN1847678602
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/

I was looking for a scary vampire story. You’re probably thinking, “duh, Salem’s Lot, you idiot!” Well smartypantses, that was my first choice too . . . and then “The Cloud” ate it.



Whoever decided...
Among the Impostors
AuthorMargaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN0689839081

It was awful. All those eyes, all looking at him. It was straight out of Luke's worst nightmares. Panic rooted him to the spot, but every muscle in his body was screaming for him to run, to hide anywhere he could. For twelve years‹his entire life‹he'd had to hide. To be seen was death. "Don't!" he...
Can't Get There from Here
AuthorTodd Strasser
ISBN0689841701
Her street name is Maybe. She lives with a tribe of homeless teens -- runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against the cold, hunger, and constant danger. With the frigid...
Nothing to Lose
AuthorAlex Flinn
ISBN0060517522
I shouldn't have come back to Miami . . . I've been escaping cops' notice for a year now. I'm no longer Michael Daye, high school athlete with a promising future. Now I look like someone with no future.

When Michael saw a chance to leave town with a traveling carnival a year ago, he took it. Back then,...
The Wish House
AuthorCelia Rees
ISBN0763629510
"A top-notch look at first love, heartbreak, and the driving force of passion." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It's the start of summer vacation, and fifteen-year-old Richard has discovered that a family has taken up residence in the usually deserted Wish House. Richard is intrigued...
Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers
AuthorBrent Runyon
ISBN0375844465
The cottage on the lake is always the same, but Luke is changing. At thirteen he’s excited. At fourteen he’s cool. At fifteen he’s pissed off. At sixteen he’s in love.

Through four summers’ worth of trips to the emergency room, campfires and house fires, parties and feuds with neighbors,...
Almost Home
AuthorJessica Blank
ISBN1423106423
Why would anyone choose to live on the streets? There is Eeyore, just twelve years old when she runs away from her priveleged home, harboring a secret she's too ashamed to tell anyone. Rusty is a sensitive gay teen who winds up alone when his older boyfriend ditches him in Hollywood. Squid has gone through...
Malka
AuthorMirjam Pressler
ISBN0142402699
When the roundups start, Malka's mother knows she must get her daughters-seven- year-old Malka and sixteen-year-old Minna-across the Hungarian border to safety, a place where they hope Jews can live in peace. But escape proves harder than they could have imagined, with bleeding feet, bad weather,...
The Garden
AuthorElsie V. Aidinoff
ISBN0060556056
In the beginning ... There was the Serpent, there for Eve's awakening, and for all the days since. Teacher, mentor, companion, friend, and more. There was God. The Creator. Quick to anger. Dangerous. Majestic. There was Adam: as God said, a joy to behold. And there was Eve. These four hold the future in...
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