Chat Room
10 best books like Chat Room (Kristin Butcher): I'm Afraid of Men, Brave, The Tragedy Paper, Juice, Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Women on Life After Sexual Assault, Jay's Journal, Daredevil Club, Blob, Polyamorous: Living and Loving More, Queen of the Toilet Bowl
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 0735235937 |
"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind."
—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers...
Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible cult: Hollywood.
In a strange world where she was continually on display, stardom soon became a personal nightmare of constant exposure and sexualization. Rose escaped into the world of her mind, something she had done...
| Author | Elizabeth LaBan |
| ISBN | 0375870407 |
Tim Macbeth, a seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving School, where the motto is “Enter here to be and find a friend.” A friend is the last thing Tim expects or wants—he just hopes to get through his senior year unnoticed. Yet, despite his efforts to blend into...
| Author | Eric Walters |
| ISBN | 1551435888 |
When a Division One coach comes to their smaller school to bring the football program up to contender status, Moose and the rest of the players on the team are pumped. Coach Barnes has new ideas and a vision for the future--nothing is too good for his players. With a new training regimen, everything seems...
Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Women on Life After Sexual Assault
| Author | Jen Sookfong Lee |
| ISBN | 1771643730 |
Personal stories of how women survive after the trauma of sexual assault.
In the era of #MeToo, we've become better at talking about sexual assault. But sexual assault isn't limited to a single, terrible moment of violence: it stays with survivors, following them wherever they go.
Through...
| Author | Beatrice Sparks |
| ISBN | 0671735594 |
Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything.
He was wrong.
When Jay falls in with a crowd that's dabbling in drugs and the occult, he finds himself in over his head and doing...
| Author | Pam Withers |
| ISBN | 1551436140 |
Kip's only friends are the members of the Daredevil Club, a club whose mission is to complete seven dangerous dares before their rivals, the Wildmen, complete their list of dares. Before the cliff diving accident in which he lost the use of his leg, Kip had been the leader of the Daredevil club. Now he has...
| Author | Frieda Wishinsky |
| ISBN | 1554691818 |
It's hard enough for Eve to adjust to a new high school without the extra weight she's gained over the summer. Her best friend is ashamed to hang out with her, and she's become the focus of a schoolmate's cruelty. Determined not to be "that pathetic fat girl" at school, Eve struggles with a diet and forces...
Polyamorous: Living and Loving More
| Author | Jenny Yuen |
| ISBN | 1459740424 |
A look at how people are giving themselves a choice to love another way.
“The heart is not like a box that gets filled up, but expands in size the more you love.”
Enlightened words you wouldn’t expect to hear from the computer in the movie Her, but it also rings true for humans....
| Author | Frieda Wishinsky |
| ISBN | 1551435551 |
Ok so every time I go to the library, for the past four years or so, I've seen this book. It has the brightest pink spine so it catches my eye as soon I walk into the teen section. For the longest time I've been avoiding reading it, I don't even know why. I think I liked seeing it each time I went and just knowing...
| Author | Dayle Campbell Gaetz |
| ISBN | 1551434741 |
Jessica loves her yearly backpacking trip with her father, but this year everything has changed. This year Jessica has to share her vacation with her new stepmother and her spoiled new stepsister, Amy. Jessica tries to salvage her holiday by sneaking off for a day hike alone, but Amy follows. Jessica...
| Author | Don Trembath |
| ISBN | 1551437058 |
Rufus and his sister Alexa hate each other at the best of times. When Rufus's friend Phil manages to hypnotize Alexa, Rufus is ready to enjoy the power. They begin by ordering Alexa to be kind to her parents and Phil. The plan backfires when Alexa sweetly suggests canceling an expensive family vacation...
The first flash mob Ian puts together himself is a sixty-plus person, four-minute pillow fight in a department store. His friend Oswald is thrilled with the event, but Julia, the one Ian really wants to impress, is still convinced that flash mobs are stupid. While Ian tries to prove Julia wrong by initiating...
| Author | K.L. Denman |
| ISBN | 1554698200 |
Fifteen-year-old Zack finds a home made CD with the word Famous written on it. Lonely and bored while suspended from school, he puts the CD on and loses himself in the music. Zack has sound-color synesthesia. He sees colors when he hears music, and the music on the Famous CD causes incredible patterns...
| Author | Eric Walters |
| ISBN | 1551439867 |
Keegan and Alex are the only kids in Leamington who haven't volunteered to help out with the town's annual tomato festival. In an attempt to teach them a sense of responsibility, their fathers put them in charge of the tomato toss. The boys decide it's their responsibility to add a little excitement to...
| Author | Karen Spafford-Fitz |
| ISBN | 1459803493 |
Fourteen-year-old Simone is having trouble making friends at her new school when her leadership studies class is paired with kindergarten students to mentor throughout the school year. To her surprise, Simone enjoys the Kinderbuddy Project, and she develops a special friendship with her Kinderbuddy,...
| Author | Lesley Choyce |
| ISBN | 1551434768 |
When Kurt is hurt in a soccer game and ends up in the hospital Tina tries to help him, but nobody will tell her what is wrong, and Kurt's parents don't want her around. Tina learns that Kurt needs a donor with a rare blood type, and she finds a match in Kurt's soccer rival Jason. Jason agrees to donate his blood...
Flower Power (Orca Currents)
| Author | Ann Walsh |
| ISBN | 0756968747 |
Callie's Mother Has chained herself to the neighbor's tree and is living inside the treehouse. She refuses to come down until the neighbor, Mr. Wilson, agrees to leave the tree standing. Soon reporters arrive to interview Callie about her mother's protest. Callie doesn't want to talk to anyone. More...
