Crunch Time

10 best books like Crunch Time (Mariah Fredericks): Alice, I Think, The Shadow Guests, Claiming Georgia Tate, 櫻狩り 上 [Sakuragari 1], Jack Tumor, Blind Faith, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time, A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, Accidents of Nature, Claws

Alice, I Think
AuthorSusan Juby
ISBN0060515457
3.5 stars rounded up because it's a debut novel I know how good Susan Juby's writing is now

Alice is a character; funny, eccentric, socially introverted and a true 15 year old. Her parents are still hippies, her brother is the only one in the entire family who has it together, and she lives in the...
AuthorJoan Aiken
After the mysterious disappearance of both his mother and older brother, Cosmo is sent away to live with his eccentric mathematician aunt. Lonely and confused, Cosmo must also deal with being the new kid at school. Not an easy assignment! But things take a weird twist when Cosmo is visited by ghosts from...
AuthorGigi Amateau
ISBN0763633119
1. Author's Background
Gigi Amateau wrote this novel, because she needed a way to express herself. Georgia Tate’s character is based off of Gigi. Each of the characters go through some of the same obstacles.

2. Literary Time Period
This novel was written in modern times. This book...
櫻狩り 上 [Sakuragari 1]
AuthorYuu Watase
ISBN4091790267
人気作家・渡瀬悠宇が満を持して放つ最新作

『ふしぎ遊戯』『妖しのセレス』等超人気作を放ち、現在も『ふしぎ遊戯 玄武開伝』を執筆中の渡瀬悠宇が、flowers増刊「凛花」に好評連載中の最新シリーズ。これまでの渡瀬作品とは一線を画す記念碑的作品。

 其れは、大正九年。僕が、数えで十七の春だった。
僕を殺して呉れないか
時は大正九年。一高入学を目指して志高く上京した田神正崇(たがみまさたか)が奇しくも出逢ったのは、謎めいた美青年、俟爵家の御曹司・斎木蒼磨(さいきそうま)だった。その時から、正崇の運命が狂おしく迸りはじめる――!! 愛憎入り乱れる、美しくも悲痛な大正浪漫幻想譚!!

Sakura...
Jack Tumor
AuthorAnthony McGowan
ISBN0374329559
Hector is being hectored by an unlikely bully: a talking brain tumor. And it’s not just a talking brain tumor. It’s a know-it-all, pain-in-the-arse, jibber-jabbering brain tumor that names itself Jack, and insists on coaching Hector through life even as it’s threatening to take his life away....
AuthorEllen Wittlinger
ISBN1416902732
"I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else...My mother is dying. She has leukemia and she came here to die."

Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. Liz just isn't sure she's the right person....
AuthorLisa Yee
ISBN0439622484
Stanford Wong is in big trouble--or as he would spell it, "trubble"--in this laugh-out-loud companion to the award-winning MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS and this season's HC, EMILY EBERS.



Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't...
AuthorDana Reinhardt
ISBN0385746989
Simone’s starting her junior year in high school. Her mom’s a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad’s a political cartoonist, so she’s grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She’s got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And she’s...
AuthorHarriet McBryde Johnson
ISBN0805076344
Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara,...
AuthorWill Weaver
ISBN0060094753
"It's not the big, tragic things in life that do you in-"For Jed Berg, life is good: He's landed a major girlfriend, made number onesingles in varsity tennis, and his father lets him drive his 1969 Camaro. Sweet.

Then a punk chick with pink hair enters Jed's life. She calls herself Gertrude, but...
AuthorSteven Goldman
ISBN1599902710
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...
AuthorCarol Plum-Ucci
ISBN0152047581
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,...
AuthorSean Beaudoin
Stan Smith has the world's dullest name, and the world's dullest life to go with it. At 17, the former junior chess champion turned "Town's Laziest Register Monkey at the Town's Only Video Store" has no car, no college, and, of course, no girl. If that weren't pathetic enough, he's got an organic-food-freak...
AuthorLara Deloza
ISBN0440237874
A fresh, honest look at the difficult choices and unexpected joys in a girl’s life under pressure.

Lucy Doyle is about to explode. She’s sure her name might as well be Loser because she‘s never, ever been kissed. To make matters worse, nearly all of her friends have left her behind for boys....
AuthorJen Bryant
ISBN0375832599
Like her mother, Georgia McCoy is an artist, but her dad looks away whenever he sees her with a sketchbook. Sometimes it’s hard to remember what it was like when her mother was still alive . . . when they were a family . . . when they were happy. But then a few days after her 13th birthday, Georgia receives...
AuthorS.A. Harazin
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...
AuthorA.M. Jenkins
ISBN0064473740
Colt's perfect life crumbles when his girlfriend breaks up with him and looming academic ineligibility threatens his baseball career. For a guy who gets by on his good looks and talent with a bat, Colt knows that he could be facing his toughest challenge ever.

Just as she did in her acclaimed...
AuthorMichael Simmons
ISBN0385731965
Brett Gerson is a 15-year-old spoiled-rotton rich kid; he spends his days lounging by the pool, playing videogames on his big-screen tv, and basically doing anything he wants. One day there is a knock on the door and everything changes, Brett’s father is arrested for insider trading. Brett’s family...
AuthorRoderick Townley
ISBN0689857136
It's not easy being a heroine inside a story that no one is reading.But Princess Sylvie has an even bigger problem: By chance, she and the other characters from The Great Good Thing and Into the Labyrinth find themselves launched into outer space bound for the moons of Jupiter! Here they must learn to act...
AuthorMichael Gerber
ISBN0786838515

Hart Fox may not have the pedigree to be a shoo-in at Stutts, a prestigious Ivy League school, but he has the grades and the rsum. And he does make it in-sort of. His acceptance is hijacked by Burlington Darling III, a wealthy alum who is so desperate to get his hapless son, Trip, into Stutts that he funds...
The Alison Rules
AuthorCatherine Clark
ISBN0060559829
What is It About Alison?

For one thing, she has rules:

When stealing a rowboat, ALWAYS check that the oars are the same length, so you don't go in circles.
In reference to your best friend's crush, KEEP your feelings to yourself.
NEVER use your locker if that's where you were...
Likely Story
AuthorDavid Van Etten
MALLORY IS A teenage girl living in L.A. and her mother is the oftnominated, never-winning star of a daytime soap; she is, in fact, the ultimate drama queen. After yet another blow-out about her mother’s awful plotlines and overacting, Mallory starts blogging about how she wishes soap operas were...
Kiss My Book
AuthorJamie Michaels
ISBN0385734999
RUBY CRANE IS a rising star. At 15, she sold her first book, got a movie deal, scored the hottest guy in school, and became the most popular student at Frasier High. Now, as a soon-to-be junior and published author, she's ready to make waves in New York's literary world. But every star falls back to earth...
Retribution
AuthorCarrie Mac
The Maddox siblings’ world has been ripped from them yet again.

With thousands of Triskelians dead at the hands of the Keyland Guard, Eli and Sabine flee with the survivors to the safety of Cascadia. Seth, missing for days before rescue from beneath the rubble, is horrified to discover that...
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