Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool

5 best books like Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool (Hannah Friedman): A Step from Heaven, Speak, A Wreath for Emmett Till, Hole in My Life, Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

A Step from Heaven

Author	An Na
ISBN	0142500275

When Young Ju is four years old, she learns that her family is leaving their small fishing village in Korea to live in Mi Gook. Young Ju has heard enough about Mi Gook to be sure the place they are moving to is paradise, that she and her family are going to heaven.

After flying through the sky for a long...

Speak

Author	Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN	0374311250

The first ten lies they tell you in high school.

"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because...

A Wreath for Emmett Till

Author	Marilyn Nelson
ISBN	0618397523

In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media...

Hole in My Life

Author	Jack Gantos
ISBN	0374430896

Becoming a writer the hard way

In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin...

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

Author

Stephanie Hemphill

On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own, Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems.

With photos and an extensive list of facts...