Buttermilk Hill

10 best books like Buttermilk Hill (Ruth White): The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Evernight, King of Shadows, Poppy, The Pirate Captain's Daughter, Anything But Typical, Among the Impostors, The Second Bend in the River, Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait, Little Black Lies

AuthorCarolyn Mackler
ISBN0763620912
Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex, especially when she compares herself to her slim, brilliant, picture-perfect family. But that’s before a shocking phone call — and a horrifying allegation — about her rugby-star brother...
Evernight
AuthorClaudia Gray
ISBN0061284394
Bianca wants to escape.

She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.

Then she meets Lucas. He's not...
AuthorSusan Cooper
ISBN1416905324
WHAT'S NAT DOING IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME?Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a new replica of the...
Poppy
AuthorAvi
ISBN0689837186
At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stood an old charred oak where, silhouetted by the moon, a great horned owl sat waiting. The owl's name was Mr. Ocax, and he looked like death himself. With his piercing gaze, he surveyed the lands he called his own, watching for the creatures he considered his subjects....
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN1585365254
"I always knew my father was a pirate and I always knew I wanted to be one, too."
At age fifteen, Catherine's life is about to change. Her mother has just died and Catherine can't stand the thought of being sent to live with her aunt in Boston. She longs for a life of adventure.


After she discovers...
Anything But Typical
AuthorNora Raleigh Baskin
ISBN1416963782
Jason Blake is an autistic 12-year-old living in a neurotypical world. Most days it’s just a matter of time before something goes wrong. But Jason finds a glimmer of understanding when he comes across PhoenixBird, who posts stories to the same online site as he does.

Jason can be himself when...
Among the Impostors
AuthorMargaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN0689839081

It was awful. All those eyes, all looking at him. It was straight out of Luke's worst nightmares. Panic rooted him to the spot, but every muscle in his body was screaming for him to run, to hide anywhere he could. For twelve years‹his entire life‹he'd had to hide. To be seen was death. "Don't!" he...
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
ISBN0590742590
Well that was a waste of two hours. This book is really boring and pointless. "Hey, let's spend a whole book forshadowing an awesome love story, and have it end in nothing. And then that'll just be it." It was pointless. There was no reason to even write it. Why didn't she just write on a napkin, "Hey, this...
AuthorDiana Maychick
ISBN0806580003
When she began writing her biography of Audrey Hepburn, author Diana Maychick never dreamed she would have such unprecedented access to the reclusive and legendary star. Audrey Hepburn insisted that a proper biography could never be completed unless she was willing to share some intensely personal...
AuthorTish Cohen
ISBN1606840339
Sara Black is tiptoeing across a fraying tightrope.

As the new eleventh grader at Anton High–the most elite public school in the country–she sticks out like an old VW bus in a parking lot full of shiny BMWs. But being the new kid also brings a certain advantageous anonymity.

In Anton...
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
AuthorKimberly Willis Holt
ISBN1627793240
Twelve-year-old Stevie's world changes drastically when her parents are tragically killed and she is forced to live with her estranged grandfather at his run-down motel. After failed attempts to connect with her grandfather, Stevie befriends the colorful motel tenants and neighbors. Together,...
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
AuthorTimothy P. Carney
ISBN0062797107
Now a Washington Post Bestseller.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump proclaimed, “The American Dream is dead,” a message that resonated across the country. Washington Examiner editor Timothy Carney traveled Middle America, pored over county-level maps and data,...
Shoeshine Girl
AuthorClyde Robert Bulla
ISBN0064402282
Who ever heard of a shoeshine girl?

The last thing Sarah Ida wants to do is spend the summer with her Aunt Claudia. But when her parents send her away because of problems at home, that is exactly what she has to do. With no allowance and no fun to be had, Sarah Ida decides to look for a job. But who will...
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