Burn
10 best books like Burn (Suzanne Marie Phillips): A Land More Kind Than Home, A Step from Heaven, The Merciful Crow, Parrotfish, Big Fat Manifesto, The Opposite Of Music, Slumming, Saving Grace, Exposure, The Big Dark
Author | Wiley Cash |
ISBN | 0062088149 |
A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town
For a curious boy like Jess Hall, growing up in Marshall...
Author | An Na |
ISBN | 0142500275 |
When Young Ju is four years old, she learns that her family is leaving their small fishing village in Korea to live in Mi Gook. Young Ju has heard enough about Mi Gook to be sure the place they are moving to is paradise, that she and her family are going to heaven.
After flying through the sky for a long...
Author | Margaret Owen |
ISBN | 1250191920 |
A future chieftain.
Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime.
A fugitive prince.
When Crown...
Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
ISBN | 1416916229 |
"Last week I cut my hair, bought some boys' clothes and shoes, wrapped a large ACE bandage around my chest to flatten my fortunately-not-large breasts, and began looking for a new name." Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decides to become...
Author | Susan Vaught |
ISBN | 1599902060 |
Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year, doing too much—including trying to change the world—and fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not quietly: she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes. As her column raises...
Author | Janet Ruth Young |
ISBN | 1416900403 |
when i am well
i will take you
At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind. Then he stopped listening to music, saying it hurt his ears. After a while he stopped eating and sleeping. And after that he just stopped. Stopped being Billy's father and his...
Author | Kristen D. Randle |
ISBN | 0060010223 |
Everybody has two eyes and a nose and a mouth. What makes some people beautiful and some people not?
Nikki never imagined that this offhand thought would change the course of her senior year forever. But when she poses the question to her best friends, Alicia and Sam, Alicia is suddenly inspired,...
Author | Katherine Spencer |
ISBN | 0152060960 |
I learned a lesson from this book. & i usually don't learn "life lessons" from what I read. I liked the girly kinds of books but i really liked this one. I never wanted to put it down. You find yourself figuring out that everything happens for a reason, to keep moving forward, & to always be true to...
Author | Mal Peet |
ISBN | 1406306495 |
Otello is South America's star soccer player, and he's just signed a deal to play for a team in the southern part of his country, a region with a history of racism toward black northerners like Otello. Desmerelda is a white pop star and the daughter of a right-wing politician. Their marriage propels them...
Author | Rodman Philbrick |
ISBN | 0545789753 |
A solar event knocks out our planet's electricity, and a boy must risk his life to save his sick mother.
What would you do if every spark of electricity suddenly vanished, as if somebody had flipped a switch on the entire planet? Cars won't start, the heat shuts off, there's no water in your faucet,...
Author | Jean-Claude Mourlevat |
ISBN | 0763644501 |
In a gripping dystopian novel, four teenagers risk impossible odds to fight against tyranny in a world of dangerous choices — and reemerging hope.
Escape. Milena, Bartolomeo, Helen, and Milos have left their prison-like boarding schools far behind, but their futures remain in peril....
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
ISBN | 0545320690 |
Sometimes, the greatest comebacks take place far away from the ball field.
Meet Peter Friedman, high school freshman. Talented photographer. Former baseball star. When a freakish injury ends his pitching career, Peter has some major things to figure out. Is there life after sports? Why...
A Family in Danger
Ash is still falling from the sky two years after a series of globally devastating volcanic eruptions. Sunlight is as scarce as food, and cities are becoming increasingly violent as people loot and kill in order to maintain their existence. Sixteen-year-old Miles Newell...
Author | Will Weaver |
ISBN | 0060094761 |
Two years ago, the ash started falling like gray snow. The volcanoes had erupted. . . .
For Miles and his sister, Sarah, the real disaster started in the violent aftermath--when they were forced to leave their cushy suburban home and flee to the north woods for safety. Miles got them to a cabin,...