Bad
10 best books like Bad (Jean Ferris): Life in the Fat Lane, Mercy, Unbound, Hit the Road, On Pointe, Tree Girl, Endgame, No Laughter Here, Alt Ed, Burger Wuss, Kerosene
| Author | Cherie Bennett |
| ISBN | 0440220297 |
Beauty pageant winner, homecoming queen--Lara has the world at her feet. Until she gets fat.
Despite a strict diet and workout schedule, Lara is soon a nameless, faceless, 200-pound-plus teenage blimp. She's desperate to get her to-die-for body back--and to find an explanation...
| Author | Kim Antieau |
| ISBN | 1416908935 |
Mercy O'Connor is becoming an angel. She can feel her wings sprouting from her shoulder blades. They itch. Sometimes she even hears them rustling. And angels don't need to eat. So Mercy has decided she doesn't need to either. She is not sick, doesn't suffer from anorexia, is not trying to kill herself....
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0385729448 |
Brit has had her driver’s license only 11 days when her parents drop her off to stay at her grandmother’s house for two weeks while they go on vacation. Little do they know Brit is headed for a three-state road trip with Nannie to pick up her college roommates, Florence, Aurelia, and Daisy, and bring...
| Author | Lorie Ann Grover |
| ISBN | 0689865252 |
Our feet slipinto satin shoes
with stiff shanks,
hard boxing,
tight elastic,
and slippery ribbons
that wrap and end
in hard knots.
The frayed edges
are crammed
out of sight.
We stand.
A row of bound...
| Author | Ben Mikaelson |
| ISBN | 0060090065 |
They call Gabriela Tree Girl. Gabi climbs trees to be within reach of the eagles and watch the sun rise into an empty sky. She is at home among the outstretched branches of the Guatemalan forests.
Then one day from the safety of a tree, Gabi witnesses the sights and sounds of an unspeakable massacre....
| Author | Nancy Garden |
| ISBN | 0152054162 |
A new town, a new school, a new start. That's what fourteen-year-old Gray Wilton believes as he chants, "It's gonna be better, gonna be better here." But it doesn't take long for Gray to realize that nothing's going to change--there are bullies in every school, and he's always their punching bag. Their...
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0688162479 |
Even though they were born in different countries, Akilah and Victoria are true best friends. But Victoria has been acting strange ever since she returned from her summer in Nigeria, where she had a special coming-of-age ceremony. Why does proud Victoria, named for a queen, slouch at her desk and answer...
| Author | Catherine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0142402354 |
Susan Calloway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates - and she's had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for the nearly expelled.
School is bad enough, but facing...
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 1844282899 |
Anthony is a wuss - until the day he finds his girlfriend, Diana, in Turner's arms! Anthony vows revenge and devises The Plan which involves an anarchist, a condiment trolley, and a 1985 Oldsmobile named Margot. But when these ingredients are finally put together, will he be satisfied?
Hoping...
A YA novel with a promising premise, Kerosene's endless possibilities are ruined by author Chris Wooding's hit-or-miss text and his undeveloped, one-dimensional characters. At times, Wooding does show the odd bit of future capability, but writing Kerosene at such a young age is probably a main factor...
| Author | Alan Sitomer |
| ISBN | 1423100301 |
When Teddy Anderson's little sister Tina is gunned down randomly in a drive-by shooting, the gangstas who rule the streets in the Anderson family's rapidly deteriorating neighborhood dismiss the incident as just another case of RP, RT-wrong place, wrong time. According to gangsta logic, Tina doesn't...
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0007133049 |
On Hallowe'en years ago, 16-year-old Denny's father was involved in a tragic accident that killed 22 children. And it seems one of those children can't forget. Denny wants to be like other kids his age, but he's not allowed to drive or answer the phone and his family moves so often he's always the new kid...
| Author | Lara Deloza |
| ISBN | 0440237874 |
A fresh, honest look at the difficult choices and unexpected joys in a girl’s life under pressure.
Lucy Doyle is about to explode. She’s sure her name might as well be Loser because she‘s never, ever been kissed. To make matters worse, nearly all of her friends have left her behind for boys....
| Author | Will Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0152052097 |
Elsewhere is moody. It's from the viewpoint of young people who have dropped out and live on the streets, forming their own families and relationships. I don't especially feel comfortable with the idea of kids living this way, but that's one of the best things about reading. You get to see different worlds,...
| Author | Mary Logue |
| ISBN | 0064472094 |
Branko has come to Earth on a grave mission: He must find a female and bring her home. What will happen to her on his planet isn't quite clear. But without her, his planet could die.
Tonia has always loved summer, but this one is different. Her best friend is changing and her family seems to be falling...
| Author | Pete Hautman |
| ISBN | 0689831188 |
"In 2028, a deadly Flu virus ravages the earth. Only one in two thousand survive the virus, and these "Survivors" are rarely left unaffected. By 2038, only 38 million people remain on Earth. Most of them live in small communities, ever fearful of outsiders who might bring the deadly Flu."Ceej Kane lives...
"You are a criminal, Gemm 16884--aggressive, hostile, nonconforming. We have noted tendencies toward diversity in your gait, in your dreams, and most especially in your repeated persistence in"--the Elder cleared his throat--"making music."
Branded a deviant--and therefore a threat--to...
| Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
Intense. Where does a misfit fit in? And what becomes of him when he's too afraid to do so?
Charles is an artistic prodigy whose art has always scared people-- his parents, his teachers, his peers. Charles has learned to hide his true self in order to get along, but he no longer wants to play "Simon...
Have you ever told someone something that would devastate them for life? Have you ever told someone a secret that you knew you weren’t supposed to tell anyone? Or have you ever held in something you thought you’d never tell anyone until someone made you snap? If so, in the book Tell you’ll relate...
Carter's Unfocused, One-Track Mind
| Author | Brent Crawford |
| ISBN | 1423144457 |
After an eventful freshman year and disastrous summer, fifteen-year-old Will Carter returns to Merrian High none the wiser. His sophomore year will present a host of new problems: the return of Scary Terry from juvie, the pregnant presence of Amber Lee, friends-with-benefits negotiations with...
| Author | Michael Gruber |
| ISBN | 0060761679 |
This critically acclaimed tale of a witch and her goblin-child is wholly original, and the legendary characters of old who touch their story -- Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin -- are made new through Michael Gruber's imaginative lens. Gruber's literary voice is as magical as his imagination....
Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome (Revised edition)
This provocative and pioneering book is both a refreshing exploration of the history of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and a powerful story of the author's own struggle with her son Elijah's Asperger's Syndrome.
From her first inklings of Elijah's difference to her discovery of a whole...
| Author | Jenni Mills |
| ISBN | 0007247125 |
A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath.
Kit Parry is reluctant to take the job shoring up the ancient quarries beneath her hometown of Bath — a place as riddled with...
| Author | Judie Oron |
| ISBN | 1554512719 |
One girl's harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land -- all based on a true story. In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its...
Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor
| Author | Josh Wolk |
| ISBN | 1401302602 |
What happens when a grown man returns to the site of his fondest childhood memories? A wry, clear-eyed, and laugh-out-loud look at the transition to adulthoodThree months before getting married at age thirty-four, Josh Wolk decides to treat himself to a "farewell to childhood" extravaganza: one...
