Contents Under Pressure
10 best books like Contents Under Pressure (Lara Deloza): Fault Line, Total Constant Order, M+O 4EVR, My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts, 48 Shades of Brown, The Brothers Torres, Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, Better Than Running at Night, Hanging on to Max, The Night My Sister Went Missing
| Author | Janet Tashjian |
| ISBN | 0805080635 |
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...
| Author | Crissa-Jean Chappell |
| ISBN | 0060886056 |
Fin can't stop counting. She's always heard a voice inside her head, ordering her to listen, but ever since she's moved to the Sunshine State and her parents split up, numbers thump like a metronome, rhythmically keeping things in control. When a new doctor introduces terms such as "clinical depression"...
| Author | Tonya Cherie Hegamin |
| ISBN | 0618495703 |
There are two constants in Opal’s life: her dad’s grungy green baseball cap, and her troubled pal, Marianne, whom Opal loves as a best friend . . . and even more. But nothing stays the same forever. When Opal receives the horrifying news that Marianne is dead, she suddenly must live her life and make...
| Author | Cherry Whytock |
| ISBN | 1416905219 |
If you like humor and relastic fiction stories, than this is the book for you. this book is about a teenage girl named Angelica Cookson. she is also called Angel by her closest friends. She has a life that most people would think is a pretty easy life. She has friends, is not a social outcast, has money, lives...
| Author | Nick Earls |
| ISBN | 0618452958 |
48 Shades of Brown was the 2000 winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Older Readers (phew - that's a mouthful). And, in many ways it was, perhaps, a fairly significant winner, in that it was one of the handful of Australian 'Young Adult' books released around that...
| Author | Coert Voorhees |
| ISBN | 1423103041 |
Frankie Towers has always looked up to his older brother, Steve, and with good reason. Steve is a popular senior who always gets what he wants: girls, a soccer scholarship, and--lately--street cred. Frankie, on the other hand, spends his time shooting off fireworks with his best friend Zach, working...
| Author | Michael Cart |
| ISBN | 0689832036 |
"More than thirty years ago a pioneering young adult librarian named Margaret A. Edwards protested that 'many adults seem to think that if sex is not mentioned to adolescents, it will go away.' "As succeeding decades have demonstrated, silence is no arbiter of behavior. Not only has sex not gone away,...
| Author | Hillary Frank |
| ISBN | 0618250735 |
Having left behind the melodrama of her solitary high school days—and the beheaded martyrs in her paintings—Ellie arrives at the New England College of Art and Design. Looking forward to the opportunity to recreate herself and her art, she begins her first day by dirty dancing with the Devil. Then...
| Author | Margaret Bechard |
| ISBN | 0689862687 |
Sam's girlfriend is pregnant but Sam is keeping the baby. Sam should be planning for college and trying out for the football team with his best friend, Andy. Instead he's up to his ears in diapers and formula, caring for his baby son, Max. Will Sam now have to make a gut-wrenching decision about Max's...
| Author | Carol Plum-Ucci |
| ISBN | 0152047581 |
A tiny pistol, passed from friend to friend at a party on an abandoned pier, suddenly fires, and Casey Carmody falls into the water below. Kurt, Casey's older brother, endures a seemingly endless night at the police station while the coast guard searches for his sister and his friends are questioned,...
| Author | Mariah Fredericks |
| ISBN | 0689869584 |
Cool is cool and geek is geek, and at Eldridge the two "definitely" do not mix.Sari and Jess are best friends and total opposites. They've liked each other ever since they discovered that they are the only two normal people at Eldridge Alternative. As they prepare to face the trials of ninth grade, Sari...
| Author | Tammar Stein |
| ISBN | 0375830235 |
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer programmer. Two college students. A grandmother and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to...
| Author | Sonia Levitin |
| ISBN | 0375837515 |
A summer in paradise. That's all Marne wants. That's all she can think of when she asks her parents permission to spend the summer in Hawaii with Aunt Carole and her family.
But Marne quickly realizes her visit isn't going to be just about learning to surf and morning runs along the beach, despite...
| Author | Valerie Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0374303746 |
From the moment their romance begins in eighth grade, Winifred and Bernie are individualists. They pride themselves on being different, and have each other for support through the tough years of high school. So when they consider college, they send off for the same catalogs, promising never to separate....
Without his job at the hospital, Clay would be lost. The hard work, the struggles of the patients, the drama in the ERÑit makes his days worth something, and gives focus to his dream of someday becoming a doctor. Clay can't afford to go away to college like the rest of his graduating senior class, but what...
| Author | Robin Friedman |
| ISBN | 0802796249 |
The Girlfriend Project was a quick read for an afternoon. I recently scoured the teen section looking for appropriate, imaginative reading that wasn't science fiction. This one fit the bill.
Written from a teenage-boy point of view, the insights are not earth-shattering. Nerdy Dork turned...
| Author | Terri Fields |
| ISBN | 1596433493 |
WHAT IF YOUR FATHER ISN'T WHO YOU THOUGHT HE WAS?
"I turn up the volume as a woman at a news desk announces, 'This just in…the alleged DB25 monster has been arrested.' Good. The camera switches from the anchor to a mug shot…and it is my face--or at least my face as it will look thirty years from...
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| ISBN | 0670036447 |
I had thought there was a lot of freedom being a good student, being trusted, being given special privileges, but that was nothing compared to the freedom I felt now. Once people gave up on you, once people wrote you off, now that was freedom.
Max Caldwell is tired. He's tired of having a "perfect"...
| Author | Aury Wallington |
| ISBN | 1595140921 |
Marit has decided: It's time to lose it. Being a virgin is getting in the way of holding on to a boyfriend. So who better to get it over with than her best guy friend, Jamie? They've known each other forever. It's pressure-free. But doing the deed changes everything. Jamie falls for Marit! Not only does he...
| Author | Barbara Shoup |
| ISBN | 0738712272 |
With high school mercifully drawing to a close, Emma's only question is, "What next? And can it please be completely unlike what happened before?" Then one lucky little lotto ticket seems to give the answer-or does it? Everything You Want is a story about what happens to an average family when money is...
| Author | Ron Koertge |
| ISBN | 0763626791 |
"A meticulously crafted story of an unexpected friendship." — THE HORN BOOK (starred review)
An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
She's drop-dead gorgeous, has a razor-sharp wit, and is a charter...
| Author | Andy Behrens |
| ISBN | 0142408336 |
The light at the end of nice boy Ian s boring summer is Danielle, someone he met online who might be really hot and who might have agreed to have sex with him. Ian is new to this sex thing and Danielle is nine hundred miles away, but Ian thinks Danielle mightbe the right girl, and if he can get himself and his two...
| Author | Jahnna N. Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0689872240 |
Dear Dash, do you believe in fate? Well, I do.
One day Quinn finds a bottle that’s washed up on the beach. Inside is an adorable message from a young kid. Turns out, that little kid has grown up to be the superrich, superhot guy that Quinn's been crushing on. Quinn and Dash finally meet at the club...
