December Stillness
10 best books like December Stillness (Mary Downing Hahn): The Window, The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes, The Crossing, Sex Education, A Begonia for Miss Applebaum, Overboard, Split Image, Heck Superhero, Holding on to Zoe, Circle the Soul Softly
| Author | Jeanette Ingold |
| ISBN | 0152049266 |
Mandy survived the terrible accident that killed her mother, but she was left blind and alone. Now she lives with relatives she doesn't know, attends a new school, and tries to make friends--all the while struggling to function without sight.
Her unpredictable life takes its strangest turn when...
| Author | John Prendergast |
| ISBN | 0307464822 |
Had Enough?
Join activists, organizations, and celebrities to fight human rights crimes in Africa.
Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us an empowering and hopeful new book, as they reveal the steps being taken by engaged citizens--"Upstanders"--famous...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0439786614 |
A critically acclaimed tearjerker from a master storyteller: On one side of the border is brutality and heartache; on the other side--a new life.
14yo Manny is an orphan in Juarez, Mexico. He competes with his bigger, meaner rivals for the coins American tourists throw off the bridge between...
Fictional narrative that follows the story of Olivia Sinclair who is recalling her freshman year in a new city and high school. During this year, she meets her first "love", David, in a biology class which turns into an untraditional, exploratory, and eye-opening sex education class. As a project for...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0435124005 |
I discovered Paul Zindel as a tween in the 1970s and like many kids my age, I read The Pigman and loved it.
Fast foward decades and I am now 55 and loved the above book which was written long after I was an adult and it is as wonderful as anything else I've read by him. He was a marvelous storyteller and...
| Author | Elizabeth Fama |
| ISBN | 0553494368 |
One moment of rashness, and fourteen-year-old Emily Slake finds herself amid hundreds of panicked and drowning people in the dark ocean waters off Sumatra. Miles from shore without a life vest, she resolves to survive. But in facing the dangers of the ocean, the desperation of her fellow survivors,...
| Author | Mel Glenn |
| ISBN | 0060004819 |
Everyone has an image of Laura Li, the most popular girl in school: “stone hearted,” “warmhearted,” “conceited deceiver,” “humble achiever,” “a virgin,” “the hottest girl in the world.”
Award-winning poet Mel Glenn weaves a brilliant web of authentic voices...
| Author | Martine Leavitt |
| ISBN | 1886910944 |
I get the feeling that Leavitt does not really know about comics or what comics a 13-year-old (I think he was supposed to be 13) who loves comics would be familiar with in this day and age. Especially one who is presented as unsheltered and has supposedly been taking care of himself and his mother a long time....
| Author | George Ella Lyon |
| ISBN | 0374332649 |
After sixteen-year-old Jules has her baby, Zoe, it doesn't matter anymore that her mother thinks she's a drama queen, or that her father left them years ago, or even that Zoe's father is gone, too. She and her baby make a family now; she doesn't need anyone else in the world except Zoe.Though it's tough...
| Author | Davida Wills Hurwin |
An elite school. Glamorous students who have fancy cars and mansions for homes (and all the haughty attitude to go with it). This is Katie O'Connor's fabulous new life since her family's recent move to Brentwood –– a perfect opportunity for a fresh start, at least in theory.
The only time...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0689873964 |
The story of a teenage Mary Magdalene -- here called Miriam -- is finally told....
When the world goes dark and her mind explodes within her, Miriam's future is shattered. In ancient Israel such seizures make her unclean. If anyone finds out about them, she will be an outcast.
Only Abraham --...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0142406937 |
Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose herself there for hours with a cappuccino and her sketchbook, in which she creates a paper world she calls...
The gool cannot be seen, not properly, but Xantee, Lo and their friends sense its evil presence. It lurks in the jungle in rock clefts, an enemy from outside nature. And now, a fragment of Gool holds Hari by the throat, draining the life from him. They can hold it back with the force of their minds, but for...
If she tries, Gabriela can almost remember when her father went off to work . . . when her mother wasn't struggling to undo the damage he caused . . . when a short temper didn't lead to physical violence. But Gabi cannot live in the past, not when one more outburst could jeopardize her family's future. So she...
| Author | Ben Mikaelson |
| ISBN | 0786812087 |
I thought that the book Countdown by Ben Mikaelsen was a good book. It tells the story of a young boy named Elliot who is chosen to be the first junior astronaut in space. Meanwhile Vincent, a young Maasai boy from Africa, is figuring out how the world works. While Elliot is in space his job is to talk on a radio....
| Author | Richie Tankersley Cusick |
| ISBN | 0671887432 |
BOOK DROP
It was after hours. Kathleen was preparing to close the library when somebody returned five grisly books about death. One was slashed. All were overdue. Then Kathleen found the bookmark with the deadly warning.
Now people close to her are falling victim to tragic accidents....
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440977533 |
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes The Stalker from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.
When Jennifer Lee Wilcox returns home from the beach, she finds that Stella Trax, her best friend’s mother, has just been murdered....
| Author | Will Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0380733129 |
Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie is living his dream -- until he discovers his mysterious captain's...
Hello, America: A Refugee's Journey from Auschwitz to the New World
| Author | Livia Bitton-Jackson |
| ISBN | 1416916253 |
Having withstood the horrors of Auschwitz and made it out alive, eighteen-year-old Elli is more than ready to leave behind the painful memories and start fresh in America. What she is not fully prepared for, though, are all the challenges of creating a new life in a completely new place -- especially...
| Author | Kelly Hourihan |
| ISBN | 0989741109 |
Fifteen-year-old Jane Shilling’s best friends don’t know her real name. In fact, they don’t know anything about her at all. Jane’s life has collapsed in the last few years; following the death of her mother, her father turned to drinking, and Jane is reeling from the double blow. To escape,...
| Author | Diane Les Becquets |
| ISBN | 0761452389 |
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I first read this book in 2004. I was 9 years old and this instantly became a favorite. I remember it being one of the first books that brought me to tears at the end and made me want to just hug it for hours.
After 11 years, I finally reread...
Hellish Nightmare.
If Seth Bradson were to describe his life, those would be the two words he would choose. Preferring to cope with his crappy existence and horrible home life by spending his days in a drug-induced haze, Seth coasts through life. Until the moment his path crosses with Ali Carson....
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0553293095 |
yeah i read it... what of it?! to explain: Entertainment Weekly did a piece on snarky blogs dedicated to the fabulous yet literary challenged books of our (1980s) youth. While perusing the blogs, I was overcome with nostalgia for my girls in Sweet Valley. These books were like crack to a young gay growing...
| Author | Kathryn Ann Clarke |
| ISBN | 0060518219 |
One night will change her life . . . Annie McGowan is eighteen years old, smart, wisecracking, fun-loving . . . a typical teenager. Yet circumstances force Annie out of the security of high school and into a world of problems all her own. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy and a turbulent, violent relationship...
