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10 best books like Beginner's Luck (Laura Pedersen): Good Fortune, Fault Line, Blind Faith, Skunk Girl, A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting a Life, Manga Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain, Better Latte Than Never, Friday Mornings at Nine

Good Fortune
AuthorNoni Carter
ISBN1416984801
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, Ayanna Bahati struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave. Rising from the cotton fields to her master's house, Anna is threatened by the increasingly dangerous world of the plantation. Risking everything, she escapes...
Fault Line
AuthorJanet Tashjian
ISBN0805080635
A hard-hitting novel that breaks open the gritty world of teen relationship abuse

Seventeen-year-old Becky Martin dreams of being a stand-up comic. She also craves the affection of a boyfriend. When attractive Kip, a rising star in the San Francisco comedy club scene, comes into Becky's...
Blind Faith
AuthorEllen Wittlinger
ISBN1416902732
"I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else...My mother is dying. She has leukemia and she came here to die."

Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. Liz just isn't sure she's the right person....
Skunk Girl
AuthorSheba Karim
ISBN0374370117
If Nina Khan were to rate herself on the unofficial Pakistani prestige point system – the one she's sure all the aunties and uncles use to determine the most attractive marriage prospects for their children – her scoring might go something like this:

+2 points for getting excellent grades...
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
AuthorDana Reinhardt
ISBN0385746989
Simone’s starting her junior year in high school. Her mom’s a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad’s a political cartoonist, so she’s grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She’s got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And she’s...
No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting a Life
AuthorAn Na
ISBN0061470589
Graduation from high school?

A senior thesis?

A betrayal by someone you love?

A loss of innocence?

The death of a parent?

Losing the family you always wished you had?

Facing a harsh reality?

What's the line that separates childhood from...
Manga Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
AuthorRichard Appignanesi
ISBN0810994755
The latest in the breakout series Manga Shakespeare, introducing teens to a new kind of Bard.

In one of Shakespeare’s funniest, most enduring stories, meddling fairies create unexpected love triangles among a group of teenagers. Hermia is in love with Lysander. Demetrius is in love with...
The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain
AuthorCath Crowley
ISBN0330364561
STAR (noun): any large body like the sun, intensely hot and producing its own energy by nuclear reactions SOCCER STAR (noun): Gracie Faltrain

Goal-kicking, super-girl, soccer star. Gracie Faltrain is on her way. To the National Championships. To Nick. To everything she's ever wanted. Or...
Better Latte Than Never
AuthorCatherine Clark
ISBN0061367141
There's nothing more annoying than working in a coffee shop inside a gas station—and not being able to drive. And having to deliver coffee to your bus driver.

Kamikaze Bus Driver sips his coffee, then charges back into traffic before I can even take a seat. I reach out for a seat back to hold on...
Friday Mornings at Nine
AuthorMarilyn Brant
ISBN0758234627
FRIDAY MORNINGS AT NINE is a standalone women’s fiction story about:
Three close friends
Two competing love interests (each!) &
One of life’s biggest “What-if?” questions… Each Friday morning at the Indigo Moon Café, Jennifer, Bridget and Tamara meet to swap stories...
The Good Daughter
AuthorAmra Pajalic
Shortlisted for the 2009 Melbourne Prize, Best Writing Award. Fifteen-year-old Sabiha has a lot to deal with: her mother's mental health issues, her interfering aunt, her mother's new boyfriend, her live-in grandfather and his chess buddy, not to mention her arrogant cousin Adnan. They all want...
Children of the Waters
AuthorCarleen Brice
ISBN0345499077
The author of the #1 Denver Post bestseller and Essence Book Club Pick Orange Mint and Honey explores the connection between love and race, and what it really means to be a family.
Trish Taylor’s white ancestry never got in the way of her love for her black ex-husband, or their mixed race son, Will....
Amazing Grace
AuthorMegan Shull
ISBN0786856912
Gorgeous teen superstar Grace Kincaid has it all--an electric smile, million-dollar endorsement deals, and blond cover-girl looks. But what happens when America's "It" girl doesn't want "It" anymore? With the paparazzi stalking her every move, Grace quietly slips out of a TEEN PEOPLE photo shoot,...
The Year That Follows
AuthorScott Lasser
ISBN1423393090
The story of a woman’s search for her brother’s lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lasser’s riveting novel - a work of stunning economy and momentum about a woman’s quest and a family’s longing for wholeness and completion.

Cat is a single mother living...
Something to Blog About
AuthorShana Norris
ISBN0810994747
Boys, bullies, and blogs come together in a book that brings the popular online diary format to print.

For fans of Lauren Myracle’s ttyl, ttfn, and l8r, g8r, this fun, fast-paced book introduces an unforgettable and relatable heroine and features chapter openers designed to look like the...
Bright Blue Miracle
AuthorBecca Wilhite
ISBN1606410318
Seventeen-year-old Leigh Mason is not sure she's ready to share her mom, her bedroom, and her little sisters with her new stepsister, Betsy. And she's definitely not ready to share her best friend, who happens to be a boy! Coping with a blended family is not easy for either Leigh or Betsy, especially during...
Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista
AuthorAmy Silver
ISBN0099543559
Cassie Cavanagh has a great job, a great boyfriend and earns enough money to keep her in shiny new shoes and fabulous clothes. What Cassie doesn’t reckon on is being sacked from her job due to the recession. Not only that but her boyfriend dumps her for an older woman. Cassie also seems to be spiralling...
Waxed
AuthorRobert Rave
ISBN0312544375
Waxed is the story of three relationship-challenged sisters working together at New York's hottest waxing salon, catering to socialites, actresses, and regular folk alike.

Yank. On the surface, glamorous Carolina Impresario---big sister and owner of Impresarios---unapologetically...
The Wedding Writer
AuthorSusan Schneider
ISBN0312676603
Four talented women, one glossy wedding magazine: life should be as perfect as a bridal catwalk… right?

Lucky Quinn writes up weddings for one of the hottest bridal magazines. And it wasn't easy to get there. From humble beginnings, she outsmarted her way into the center of New York's glamorous...
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
AuthorMichelle Robinson
ISBN0805099662
Washing a mammoth is not as easy as one might think. This book goes through the ten steps to a successful bathing experience. Filling the tub is only the first step in this intense process, which requires a delicate balance of shampoo use as well. Like any child, shampoo in the eye could lead to a disastrous...
The Single Wife
AuthorNina Solomon
ISBN0451212118
"Like a particularly sharp episode of Sex and the City, the novel poses a provocative question-does a woman need a man to feel 'married'?-and goes about answering it with both flair and heart." (Elle)

Grace Brookman thought she had it all-until her husband went out one day and never came back....
A Playdate With Death
AuthorAyelet Waldman
ISBN0425191044
From the national bestselling author of The Big Nap and Nursery Crimes.

In between planning playdates and playing dress up, Juliet finally gets some much-needed kid-free time, working out at the local health club. It's going well. She's losing weight. She's even happy--until her personal...
Holly Would Dream
AuthorKaren Quinn
ISBN1416573127
Holly Ross often wishes she lived in a simpler time, when the clothes were glamorous, the men debonair, and the endings happy. That said, her career as a fashion historian isn't so bad. With both a wedding and a big promotion coming up, her own happily ever after seems assured.

So how, in the space...
Behind The Red Doors
AuthorLeslie Kelly
ISBN0373835698
Actual Rating: 2.8 Stars (overall rating taken from average of individual story ratings)

Behind the Red Doors is the first in a five book romance series called Santori Stories as well as a collection of three romances surrounding Valentine's Day. The stories all take place with the setting...
Quickstep to Murder
AuthorElla Barrick
ISBN0451234545
What if your dance partner, business partner, and fiancé was stepping out with another woman? That's exactly what happens to Stacy Graysin, who shares ownership of a ballroom dance studio with the man who broke her heart, Rafe Acosta.

But when Stacy discovers Rafe's dead body in the studio...
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