Because of the Sun
10 best books like Because of the Sun (Jenny Torres Sanchez): Local Girl Swept Away, Moon at Nine, The Tenth Girl, The Other F-Word, When My Heart Joins the Thousand, The Accidental Genius of Weasel High, Garage Band, Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices, Sea Change, Refresh, Refresh
Local Girl Swept Away
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 1440589003 |
Set in the Cape Cod village of Provincetown,...
Moon at Nine
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 1927485576 |
| Author | Sara Faring |
| ISBN | 1250304504 |
At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi—a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing...
The Other F-Word
| Author | Natasha Friend |
| ISBN | 0374302340 |
Milo has two great moms, but he's never known what it's like to have a dad. When Milo's doctor suggests asking his biological father to undergo genetic testing...
When My Heart Joins the Thousand
| Author | A.J. Steiger |
| ISBN | 0062656473 |
Alvie Fitz doesn’t fit in, and she doesn’t care. She’s spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust,...
| Author | Rick Detorie |
| ISBN | 1606841491 |
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 | Gipi |
| ISBN | 1596432063 |
| Author | Mitali Perkins |
| ISBN | 0763658669 |
Listen in as ten YA authors -- some familiar, some new -- use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers...
| Author | Frank Viva |
| ISBN | 1935179926 |
Publishers Weekly BEST Books for Summer 2016
"Sea Change is like a dip in cold Canadian waters: just step inside, and soon you're completely swept away, finding yourself overwhelmed and breathless, entranced by this whirlwind of a book. Bravo, Frank Viva. And glub, glub, glub." - Lemony...
| Author | Danica Novgorodoff |
| ISBN | 1596435224 |
There's nothing Josh, Cody, and Gordon want more than their fathers home safely from the war in Iraq -- unless it's to get out of their dead-end town. Refresh, Refresh is the story of three teenagers on the cusp of high school graduation and their...
Vanquished
| Author | S.E. Green |
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Yesterday, Valoria’s worst problem was getting her sister to school on time.
Today, she’s a slave in a perverse world.
And an even worse fate awaits her sister if Valoria can’t...
On Solid Ground
| Author | Michelle Kemper Brownlow |
Heart Breaths
| Author | K.K. Hendin |
Before
| Author | Melissa Pearl |
Nightmare City
| Author | Andrew Klavan |
| ISBN | 1595547975 |
As a reporter for his high school newspaper, Tom Harding was tracking the best story of his life—when, suddenly, his life turned very, very weird. He woke up one morning to find his house empty...
Discovering Delilah
| Author | Melissa Foster |
Into the Black
| Author | Ava Jae |
A Perfect Mistake
| Author | Zoe Dawson |
The perfect preacher’s daughter, Verity Fairchild, has something that only she and God know about and she wants to keep it that way. Her mistake was easy to keep secret when she was out of town, but now that she's come back to Hope Parish...
Sometimes We Tell the Truth
| Author | Kim Zarins |
Jeff boards the bus for the Civics class trip to Washington,...
A Million Times Goodnight
| Author | Kristina McBride |
One Night. Two Paths. Infinite Danger.
On the night of the big Spring Break party, Hadley "borrows" her boyfriend...
The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant
| Author | Joanna Wiebe |
| ISBN | 1939529328 |
One...
Letters to Nowhere
| Author | Julie Cross |
Set in the tough world of Elite Gymnastics...
I've gotten used to the dead parents face. I've gotten used to living with my gymnastics coach. I've even adjusted to sharing a bathroom with his way-too-hot son. Dealing...
My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
| Author | Rachel Cohn |
| ISBN | 1368008399 |
In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS-the International Collegiate...
Deadfall
| Author | Stephen Wallenfels |
| ISBN | 1368014267 |
Until...