Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye
10 best books like Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye (Lois Lowry): An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James, P.S. Be Eleven, Wishing Day, Dark Sons, Planet Middle School, What Momma Left Me, The Ruins of Gorlan / The Burning Bridge / The Icebound Land, Twisted Summer, Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0395776082 |
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . .
Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social...
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James
| Author | Ashley Herring Blake |
Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James navigates heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl in this stunning, heartfelt novel--perfect for fans of Ali Benjamin and Erin Entrada Kelly.
When Sunny St. James receives a new heart, she decides...
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0061938629 |
In this exquisite sequel to the New York Times bestseller One Crazy Summer, the Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn and find that changes large and small have come to their home.
After spending the summer in Oakland with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern arrive...
| Author | Lauren Myracle |
| ISBN | 0062342061 |
On the third night of the third month after a girl’s thirteenth birthday, every girl in the town of Willow Hill makes three wishes.
The first wish is an impossible wish.
The second is a wish she can make come true herself.
And the third is the deepest wish of her secret heart.
Natasha...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 1423102517 |
Sam can't believe it when his father leaves the family to marry another woman--and a white woman, at that. The betrayal cuts deep--Sam had been so close to his dad, he idolized him. Now who can he turn to, who can he trust? Even God seems to have ditched him.
Ishmael is his father's first son, the...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 1599902842 |
For twelve years, Joylin Johnson's life has been just fine, thank you very much. A game of basketball with the boys-especially her friend Jake-was all it took to put a smile on her face. Baggy jeans, T-shirt, and hair in a ponytail were easy choices. Then suddenly the world seemed to turn upside down, and...
| Author | Renée Watson |
| ISBN | 1599904462 |
How is it that unsavory raw ingredients come together to form a delicious cake? What is it about life that when you take all the hard stuff and rough stuff and add in a lot of love, you still just might have a wonderful life? For Serenity, these questions rise up early when her father kills her mother, and leaves...
| Author | John Flanagan |
| ISBN | 0142411736 |
Here are the first three titles in John FlanaganÕs New York Times bestselling series, all collected in one boxed set, perfect for gift giving! The RangerÕs Apprentice series has taken readers by storm, captivating them with the adventures of Will, apprentice to the secretive Ranger Halt.
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| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689806000 |
I was surprised by how much I actually liked this book. It’s a murder mystery novel and I actually really liked it. I was sceptical by the fact that it was so short-192 pages long-but as I like to say, never judge a book by its length!
This book follows a girl named Cici who goes on an annual summer trip...
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
| Author | Bryan Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0525635920 |
The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1
New York Times
bestseller
Just Mercy
--soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and now the subject of an HBO documentary feature!
In this very personal work--adapted from the original...
