Blue Plate Special
10 best books like Blue Plate Special (Michelle D. Kwasney): Debbie Harry Sings in French, Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir, Shine, Coconut Moon, Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, Plus, The Last Exit to Normal, Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about The Grapes of Wrath, The Sweetheart of Prosper County, Carter's Big Break
| Author | Meagan Brothers |
| ISBN | 0805080805 |
Johnny’s had kind of a tough life so far, and he’s always been a bit of a freak. His goth look usually includes black nail polish and a little mascara.When he discovers Debbie Harry, the lead singer of Blondie, he not only likes her music but realizes that he kind of, sort of, wants to BE her. He’d like...
Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir
| Author | Claire Lewis |
| ISBN | 0312381891 |
Once upon a time, Claire Lewis dreamed she would take her camera to war zones to document political upheavals and expose grave injustices. Fate led her elsewhere. And while she might not be on assignment for The New York Times, her current job carries its own dangers: Claire is a wedding photographer....
| Author | Neesha Meminger |
| ISBN | 1416954953 |
Seventeen-year-old Samar -- a.k.a. Sam -- has never known much about her Indian heritage. Her mom has deliberately kept Sam away from her old-fashioned family. It's never bothered Sam, who is busy with school, friends, and a really cute but demanding boyfriend.But things change after 9/11. A guy in...
Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor
| Author | Pam Belluck |
| ISBN | 1586487515 |
ISLAND PRACTICE was optioned for a television series by Imagine Television ("Friday Night Lights," "24") and Fox Television. Screenwriter is Amy Holden Jones, acclaimed feature film writer whose movies include "Mystic Pizza" and "Indecent Proposal."
ISLAND PRACTICE audiobook is now...
For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.
Molly doesn't want to be seen as "Miss Difficulty Overcome"; she wants to make herself known to the kids at...
| Author | Veronica Chambers |
| ISBN | 1595141650 |
The perfect romantic makeover story about an every-girl whose dream comes true . . . Beatrice Wilson is our lovable Cinderella, who just got dumped by her very first boyfriend and put on twenty-five pounds. But then she's discovered as a plus model. In the eyes of pop culture, Bee is Jessica Alba and then...
| Author | Michael Harmon |
| ISBN | 0375940987 |
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town...
| Author | Steven Goldman |
| ISBN | 1599902710 |
Mitchell Wells may not survive eleventh grade. He really only has one friend, his best friend, David. His normally decent grade point average is in limbo due to a slightly violent, somewhat inappropriate claymation film. And girls . . . well, does hanging out with his sister count?
When David...
| Author | Jill S. Alexander |
| ISBN | 0312548567 |
Almost-15-year-old Austin Gray is tired of standing at the curb and watching the parade pass her by. Literally. She decides this is the year she’ll ride on the hood of a shiny pickup truck in the annual parade, waving to the crowd and finally showing the town bully that she’s got what it takes to be the...
| Author | Brent Crawford |
| ISBN | 1423112431 |
After surviving freshman year (just barely), Carter is craving his summer break. Unfortunately, when he and his girlfriend, Abby, part ways, it looks as though summer just might break him. Things start to look up when he's unexpectedly cast in an independent film opposite the world's biggest tween...
| Author | Brent Hartinger |
| ISBN | 0060824115 |
For most kids, fifteen is the year of the optional summer job: Sure, you can get a job if you really want one, but it isn't required or anything. Too bad Dave's dad doesn't agree! Instead of enjoying long days of biking, swimming, and sitting around, Dave and his two best friends are being forced by their...
| Author | Mark Teague |
| ISBN | 0545151422 |
Bestselling writer/illustrator Mark Teague presents a witty, vivid novel about Jack and Isadora, two kids who discover a spaceship and are taken aboard by aliens who plan to take over the Earth!
When a spaceship lands in Vern Hollow, Jack's hometown, he and his no-account inventor-uncle...
| Author | Dene Low |
| ISBN | 0547152507 |
You would think Petronella's sixteenth birthday would be cause for celebration. After all, fashionable friends are arriving at her country estate near London, teas are being served, and her coming out party promises to be a resplendent affair. Everything is falling nicely into place, until, suddenly—it...
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped is about a Los Angeles girl named Michelle Pena, who's a westside foster child, and a straight A student, as well as a record-smashing track star -- who also happens to come from gang royalty, as her mother, Reina, is a powerful gang leader in Montebello, and her...
| Author | Jeannine Garsee |
| ISBN | 1599903334 |
Perfectionist Shawna dates the right boys, gets good grades, and follows her father's every rule. So when her estranged lesbian mother dies, Shawna needs to figure out how to have the perfect reaction. But anger from being abandoned ten years ago, combined with the introduction of her mother's other...
| Author | John C. Ford |
| ISBN | 0670010960 |
Christopher just needed a job to kill time the summer after high school graduation. He didn't expect it to be in the morgue. Or that he would accidentally discover a murder cover-up. Or that his discovery would lead him to a full-blown investigation involving bribery, kidnappings, more murders......
| Author | Christopher Krovatin |
| ISBN | 1416924876 |
Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he’s had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger—a force he calls “the venom.” Ever since he was eight years old and bit off a piece of a classmate’s nose, he’s been something...
| Author | Mark Fink |
| ISBN | 1934813125 |
Andy Crenshaw’s summer just went into the toilet. His father got a new job and cancelled their dream vacation to Hawaii. Andy and his older brother, Brad, are shipped off to a farm in Wisconsin to stay with an Aunt and Uncle they hardly know. Brad has little use for Andy, except to torment him.
What...
| Author | Mary E. Pearson |
| ISBN | 0805088288 |
Destiny Faraday makes a point of keeping her distance from her classmates at Hedgebrook Academy. Her number-one rule: Don’t get attached. But one day, unexpectedly finding a car at their disposal, Destiny and three of her classmates embark on an unauthorized road trip.
They’re searching...
The Aftershock Investor: A Crash Course in Staying Afloat in a Sinking Economy
| Author | David Wiedemer |
| ISBN | 1118073541 |
Advice on protection and profits in the short and long term future from the experts who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008, and who now have more detailed information about what is yet to come From the authors who accurately predicted the domino fall of the conjoined real estate, stock,...
| Author | Anoop Ahuja Judge |
| ISBN | 0991081013 |
Five years ago Divya Kapoor moves from the immigrant ghetto of Queens to the SF Bay Area with her husband and children to start over. In this new place, she re-discovers her three closest friends from the girls’ boarding school they all attended in a Himalayan foothill town. The four women commit to...
| Author | Silas House |
| ISBN | 0763643416 |
In his timely YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family.
Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky. Bob Seger growls from a transistor radio. And down by the river, girls line up on lawn chairs in pursuit of the perfect tan....
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
| Author | Julene Bair |
| ISBN | 0670786047 |
A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plains
Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm...
