Endgame
10 best books like Endgame (Nancy Garden): Invisible, Scrawl, Bait, The Death of Jayson Porter, The Boy From the Basement, Hidden, Bullyville, This Is What I Did, Hurricane Song, Cruise Control
| Author | Pete Hautman |
| ISBN | 0689869037 |
You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend....I guess you could say that I'm not only disturbed, I'm obsessed. Lots of people think Doug Hanson is a freak -- he gets beat up after school and the girl of his dreams calls...
| Author | Mark Shulman |
| ISBN | 1596434171 |
Tod Munn is a bully. He’s tough, but times are even tougher. The wimps have stopped coughing up their lunch money. The administration is cracking down. Then to make things worse, Tod and his friends get busted doing something bad. Something really bad.
Lucky Tod must spend his daily detention...
| Author | Alex Sanchez |
| ISBN | 1416937722 |
After Diego lands himself on probation for fighting, he doesn’t trust his probation officer, Mr. Vidas. But as he begins to open up, Diego realizes that he needs Mr. Vidas’s help to get his anger under control. To do that, Diego will need to face the nightmares from his past head-on and confront the...
| Author | Jaime Adoff |
| ISBN | 1423106911 |
Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even...
| Author | Susan Shaw |
| ISBN | 0142405469 |
For Charlie, the cold, dark basement is home. Father has kept him locked in there as punishment. Charlie doesn’t intend to leave, but when he is accidentally thrust outside, he awakens to the alien surroundings of a world to which he’s never before been exposed. Though haunted by hallucinations,...
| Author | Tomas Mournian |
| ISBN | 0758251319 |
When Ahmed's parents send him to a residential treatment center known as Serenity Ridge, it's with one goal: to "fix" their son, at any cost. But eleven months of abuse and overmedication leave him desperate to escape. And when the opportunity comes, Ahmed runs away to San Francisco.
There, he moves...
| Author | Francine Prose |
| ISBN | 0060574976 |
So.. boring. All I can think is blah blah blah la di da... Maybe I misunderstood the age range of this book, because if you're not of a middle school age I can't really see anyone enjoying the level of writing in "Bullyville." And even then, I wouldn't want middle schoolers to get such a vague, watered down,...
| Author | Ann Dee Ellis |
| ISBN | 0316013633 |
Imagine if you had witnessed something horrific. Imagine if it had happened to your friend. And imagine if you hadn't done anything to help. That's what it's like to be Logan, an utterly frank, slightly awkward, and extremely loveable outcast enmeshed in a mysterious psychological drama. This story...
| Author | Paul Volponi |
| ISBN | 0670061603 |
Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome! Miles has only lived in New Orleans with his dad, a musician, for a few months when Hurricane Katrina hits. Father and son haven't exactly been getting along. Miles is obsessed with football; his dad's passion is jazz. But when the storm strikes,...
| Author | Terry Trueman |
| ISBN | 0064473775 |
How sick is this: I'm the major jock-stud in high school, but my brother has the brain of a badminton birdie and a body to match. I've got everything and he's got nothing. I'm a three-year, three-sport letterman and Shawn can't even stand up! Like I said, sick, huh?
It's hard to be a brother to someone...
| Author | Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson |
| ISBN | 0761327908 |
Why had the men chosen him? Savagely violated by two strangers, sixteen-year-old Grady West retreats into silence. Some hells just can't be shared. Searing and powerful, Target shows that people can go through unspeakable things and emerge whole-- and sometimes your friends can save you. Another...
| Author | Jean Ferris |
| ISBN | 0374404755 |
Inspired by the author's work in a girls' rehabilitation center.
Ray called it skating when we did the crazy things . . . Hot-wiring a fancy car for a joyride after midnight. Boosting stuff from stores . . .
Sixteen-year-old Dallas loves the rush, the excitement of "skating." But then...
| Author | Michael Harmon |
| ISBN | 0375940995 |
With her martyr-doctor mother gone to save lives in some South American country, Poe Holly suddenly finds herself on the suburban doorstep of the father she never knew, who also happens to be a counselor at her new high school. She misses Los Angeles. She misses the guys in her punk band. Weirdly, she even...
| Author | Rick Detorie |
| ISBN | 1606841491 |
A book for the Wimpy Kid who has grown into a Wimpy Teen
Larkin Pace desperately wants a new camcorder. How else is he going to become the next great filmmaker? But his dad won’t give him any money, his sister is determined to make his life miserable, and his nemesis Dalton Cooke is trying to...
Praised by Jack Gantos, author of
Dead End in Norvelt
, as "a quick read with a kick at the finish," this debut novel sensitively and memorably captures a teen runner's relationship with his autistic older brother.
Like most siblings, Leo and Caleb have a complicated relationship. But Caleb's...
4.5 stars
I read Mara because I was expecting to be freaked out, and this novella totally delivered that. I've been friends with Richard for over a year and he's honestly one of my favorite booktubers ever, and I gotta say, he's also a fantastic writer. Mara felt very real and I felt like I was inside...
| Author | Takana Hotaru |
| ISBN | 4840129274 |
The last two manga I read were just awful, but ... Woohoo! Third time's the charm!
This gave me the same feeling when I started Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, but actually, I think this first volume grabbed me more. Both series have great distinct characters with really original ideas and...
| Author | Suzanne Marie Phillips |
| ISBN | 0316001651 |
My number one problem with this is the main character is not likeable enough.... I know we are not supposed to love him, but I pretty much borderline hate him. Maybe if we knew (a lot) more about his past and what was going on in his head it would have been more enjoyable. Also, I'm getting tired of these books...
| Author | Karen Rivers |
| ISBN | 0374302405 |
Grief can sometimes feel like being caught in the jaws of a great white shark.
J.C., who goes by the nickname Sharky, has been having a hard time ever since his best friend died in front of him in what might or might not have been an accident. Shell-shocked, Sharky spends countless hours holed up...
Through his journal a boy deals with the death of a classmate, who committed suicide as a result of bullying.
The summer before school starts, Sam's friend and classmate Morgan Mallen kills herself. Morgan had been bullied. Maybe she kissed the wrong boy. Or said the wrong thing. What about...
