At Face Value
10 best books like At Face Value (Emily Franklin): North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, Squashed, The Big Picture, Out with the In Crowd, Perfectly Invisible, Being Sixteen, Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, Belladonna, My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters, The Accidental Genius of Weasel High
| Author | Candace Jane Kringle |
| ISBN | 0615681913 |
MEET SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD CANDYCANE CLAUS. She's the most popular girl at North Pole High. Her father is world-famous. And every day is Christmas. What more could any girl want?
BOYS! And the new boy, Rudy Tutti, is hot chocolate. But he hates anything to do with Christmas!
When Candy...
| Author | Joan Bauer |
| ISBN | 0142404268 |
What a great YA book. So many of the YAs I read these days are dark and dystopian and although very interesting and very good reads, sometimes ya just need something a little lighter. While squashed wasn't dark and didn't have some intense teenage relationship it still made me really feel for the characters....
| Author | Jenny B. Jones |
| ISBN | 1600062083 |
GUYS, this series just gets better and better! <3
What I Loved
Katie's Ever-Improving Character Arc:
In this installment, Katie displays even more growth as a character as she faces the demons of her past again head-on and holds fast to the Christian principles that her foster...
| Author | Stephanie Morrill |
| ISBN | 0800733908 |
Out with the In Crowd was excellent. I liked it even better than the first book, and I definitely recommend reading them in order to get the full effect. I may not have liked Skylar had I started with the second book. However, I understood her well by the time I read this second novel in the series so it worked...
| Author | Kristin Billerbeck |
| ISBN | 0800719735 |
This is a mini ‘Books For Christian Girls’ review. It is not a full content review and will not receive one. These mini-reviews are years old and just for clarity on the rating the book received on Goodreads.
6/5/2013-
“Just like the first book of this series, this book also had...
| Author | Ally Condie |
| ISBN | 1606412337 |
This novel is about a sixteen-year old girl, Juliet, who thinks her entire life will be perfect after her sixteenth birthday, but complications arrive when first, her almost boyfriend decides to date her friend instead, and second, when her younger sister Carly is discovered to be suffering from bulimia....
Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
| Author | Janette Rallison |
| ISBN | 0802789919 |
A PC school principal turns West Side Story into a comedy of errors.
Sixteen year-old Jessica dreams of Hollywood fame, and when Jordan moves into her small town, she dreams of him too. He's a movie star's son, and hey, he's gorgeous to boot. Jordan has always wanted to get out from the shadow cast...
| Author | Fiona Paul |
| ISBN | 0399257268 |
In Renaissance Italy, love, lust, intrigue and secret societies converge to stunning results!
In the second in the stunning Secrets of the Eternal Rose series, Cassandra Caravello is trying to forget Falco, the wild artist who ran off with her heart, as she grows closer to her strong, steady...
| Author | Sydney Salter |
| ISBN | 0152066438 |
It’s the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future—and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem. A curvy, honking, bumpy, problem in the form...
| Author | Rick Detorie |
| ISBN | 1606841491 |
A book for the Wimpy Kid who has grown into a Wimpy Teen
Larkin Pace desperately wants a new camcorder. How else is he going to become the next great filmmaker? But his dad won’t give him any money, his sister is determined to make his life miserable, and his nemesis Dalton Cooke is trying to...
| Author | Matthew Buckley |
| ISBN | 1591568528 |
What are a mother and father to do with SEVEN rambunctious boys under the age of eleven? For the Buckleys, the days are filled with running, yelling, food, wrestling, and burping. Every night culminates in an epic bedtime battle.When the school year ends, however, Mom and Dad decide to harness some of...
| Author | Jennifer Sturman |
| ISBN | 0545087228 |
First there was a disappearance.
Then there was a clue.
Then there was a kiss.
And then...
Delia Truesdale has no idea her life's about to change forever. She's too busy enjoying the California summer. Her Internet tycoon mother, T.K. Truesdale, is out of town, and that means Delia...
| Author | Tricia Goyer |
| ISBN | 0802415555 |
Tricia Goyer tells the little-known, but true story of the orchestra started by prisoners in Hitler's Mauthausen death camp. This courageous orchestra played the American national anthem as Allied troops arrived to liberate the camps. Around the orchestra story, Tricia weaves the fictional stories...
| Author | Melissa A. Hanson |
| ISBN | 0615600743 |
On a bitter cold winter night Bailey Walsh’s family was killed in a traffic accident. Two years later as she lives with her aunt and uncle in Southern California, Bailey is still plagued by the nightmares of that terrible night. Everywhere around her are reminders of what she lost. Even her aunt, in...
| Author | Margaret Lesh |
| ISBN | 0692402993 |
Fifteen-year-old Stacy questions the strange world of high school, love, her role in a harsh universe, and life, in Normalish.
People tell you high school's so great and wonderful, but they're lying. It's mostly horrible and full of disappointment. It sucks. Your best friend abandons you....
| Author | K.C. Grant |
| ISBN | 1598115677 |
I cannot believe that I am giving this book 3 stars! I don't think that ever in the history of all mankind has a book from Covenant Publications deserved 3 whole entire stars. Actually, I'd give is 3 1/2 if that was possible. And for me to give a work of LDS fiction such a high rating...not the norm! (Remember...
| Author | Kay Lynn Mangum |
| ISBN | 1590387481 |
Rachel Fletcher thought the biggest secret she'd ever have would be her crush on Jason West. But everything changes the night her father dies in a car accident--an accident she believes is all her fault. Starting high school is hard enough but carrying her secret guilt, enduring her mother's depression,...
| Author | Misty Moncur |
| ISBN | 1599554976 |
First posted on my blog, Legacy of a Writer.
Misty Moncur’s debut novel, Daughter of Helaman turned out to be a very enjoyable, engaging read! I liked the time period that the book was set in—a kind of fantasy biblical time period. Really neat! I loved how she incorporated the lifestyle of...
Drawing Conclusions or Drafting Disaster?Other than harboring a somewhat obsessive fondness for Crispix and completely swearing-off boys after a bad date (don’t ask), sixteen-year-old Kate Carter is about as ordinary as they come, except for her two notable talents: art and sarcasm. After an...
