Flashcards of My Life
10 best books like Flashcards of My Life (Charise Mericle Harper): Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances, Uncle Bobby's Wedding, Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance, Exclusively Chloe, My Lost and Found Life, The Naming of Tishkin Silk, Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, Just Another Day in My Insanely Real Life, Detour for Emmy, A Million Miles from Boston
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0375868313 |
Let's face it, when it comes to death, everything is scary. Especially if your name is Alvin Ho and you maybe, sort of, agreed to go to a funeral for your Gunggung's best friend (who was your friend too).
Alvin's all freaked out and here's why:
1. He starts seeing bad omens...everywhere.
2....
| Author | Sarah S. Brannen |
| ISBN | 0399247122 |
Bobby and Jamie are getting married, but Bobby's niece Chloe is worried that she won't be his favorite person anymore. Will Uncle Bobby still think she is special? Sarah Brannen's warm story is set in an alternative family as Uncle Bobby marries his boyfriend. Uncle Bobby's Wedding embraces Bobby's...
In the spirit of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES comes this delightful turn-of-the-century journal of a feisty, imaginative young girl who is finding her voice and the courage to make it heard.
It’s the year 1901, and fourteen-year-old aspiring writer Mable Riley is on her way to fulfilling her dreams,...
| Author | Jon Yang |
| ISBN | 0142412260 |
Chloe-Grace can't help it—she's spectacular. How could she not be with celebrity parents who have been the queen and king of Hollywood for years? And Chloe is a celebrity all unto herself as well— she's the first celebrity-adopted kid in Hollywood. But now Chloe's sixteen, and she is tired of every...
| Author | Melodie Bowsher |
| ISBN | 1582347360 |
Ashley's world is perfect-until her mother disappears, accused of embezzling a million dollars. Left completely on her own, Ashley ends up living in a camper behind a gas station. Her friends have abandoned her, bills are piling up, and she can't understand why her mother doesn't come home.
Ashley...
| Author | Glenda Millard |
| ISBN | 0733313140 |
Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family. The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the aching absence of his mother and baby sister. Where have they gone and will they be coming home again? When Griffin...
| Author | Amy Sonnie |
| ISBN | 1555835589 |
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
| Author | Barbara Dee |
| ISBN | 1416947396 |
Twelve-year-old Cassie has a lot to cope with when her father moves "out of the picture." Her mom's constantly working overtime, her teenage sister's going AWOL, and her little brother seriously needs attention. It's up to Cassie to prevent total chaos at home -- or so she thinks.
She can't...
| Author | Marilyn Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1929777051 |
In the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. She won't let her alcoholic mother or her father, long gone, stand in her way. Emmy falls for Art, a junior who is also one of the choir's lead singers. Art is a dream of a boyfriend until Emmy finds that she's pregnant....
| Author | Karen Day |
| ISBN | 0385738994 |
School's out! That means Lucy is off to her favorite place: Pierson Point, Maine, where she spends summers with her family. And as she tries to forget her worries about starting middle school and about Dad's new girlfriend, Lucy can't get there soon enough. Pierson Point is where she feels most like herself,...
| Author | E.L. Konigsburg |
| ISBN | 1416993851 |
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler:
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Jennifer, Hecate,...
| Author | Johanna Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0590418211 |
Lucas Cott is one of the smartest kids in Mrs. Hockaday's third grade -- but he is also the most rambunctious. Lucas doesn't mean to be the class clown, so he promises to try to behave, even though it doesn't sound like much fun. With the best intentions, Lucas still manages to cause the unexpected when he...
| Author | Elisa Carbone |
| ISBN | 0670011851 |
Jump. That is what P.K. has done. A totally wild, crazy jump from a restrictive life with her family into a life of total adventure—rock-climbing out west with a guy she barely knows. At first, everything’s amazing. Not only are they climbing in awesomely beautiful national parks like Yosemite...
| Author | Heather Brewer |
| ISBN | 0142424609 |
Life is killer on both sides of the stake...
Junior high stinks for thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod. Bullies harass him, the principal is on his case, and the girl he likes doesn't like him back. On top of all that, Vlad is half vampire, and has to struggle with strange cravings and hiding his enlarged...
| Author | Johnathan Rand |
| ISBN | 1893699196 |
WHAT ONCE WAS A LEGEND...
HAS BECOME A NIGHTMARE!
When Rick Owens arrives at Camp Willow, he's ready for a week of fun. He's met two new friends: Sandy Johnson and Leah Warner, and the three are ready for an exciting week.
But when Rick spots strange tracks around his cabin, the campers...
| Author | Sarah O'Leary Burningham |
| ISBN | 0811864367 |
Cute and surprisingly informative. I picked up this ARC because we booked Sarah to come into Changing Hands in June. What did a 25 year old mother of two learn from reading Boyology? Quite a bit actually. More about the behavior of my younger siblings, but it also made me flash back to those awkward tween...
| Author | Karen Romano Young |
| ISBN | 0312561563 |
Moving is tough. Being the new kid in school is even tougher. But the hardest thing of all about the move that Doreen "Dodo" Bussey's family is making is that she suspects it might be because of her. She got into trouble at her last school.
On the drive to their new home, her mother gives Dodo a blank...
| Author | Erika Stalder |
| ISBN | 0979017343 |
The book Fashion 101 is a non fiction book. Non-fiction is writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history. The book is a crash course in clothing that teaches you about fashion. The book mainly focuses on where styles and trends came from. It influences your point...
| Author | Elizabeth Berkley |
| ISBN | 0399254498 |
Their parents might recognize Elizabeth Berkley as one of the stars of television's Saved by the Bell, but teenage girls know her as the helpful moderator of the Ask-Elizabeth advice website. Ask Elizabeth the book utilizes her accrued wisdom to dispense supportive counsel on topics including, but...
| Author | Michele Weber Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0385908024 |
Eleven-year-old Calli Gold is the quiet third child in a family of loud overachievers. In fact, the family motto is Be Gold. Calli's sister is on an ice-skating team, and her brother's a basketball star. Her parents are sure she has a hidden gift for something. They just have to figure out what it is! But...
| Author | Linzi Glass |
| ISBN | 0061797162 |
Twelve-year-old Bree Davies is devastated when her beloved Border Collie, Danny, goes missing after her mom leaves the gate open to their Santa Monica home. In her search to find Danny, Bree is thrust into the world of animals in need. With the help and guidance of animal rescuer Rayleen, Bree's heart...
| Author | Eileen Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0375858709 |
DELICIOUS PANCAKES!!
FREE!!
ALL YOU CAN EAT!!
COME TO OUR
NEW GRAND OPENING!
The grand opening of the Dancing Pancake isn't the only new thing in Bindi's life: new friends, a new apartment, maybe even a cute new crush? But there are other changes, like her dad's move to a new...
| Author | Lauren Barnholdt |
| ISBN | 1416935045 |
Eighth grader Scarlett is boy crazy -- and not just a little boy crazy. We're talking seriously, utterly, completely, 100-percent boy crazy! So much so that her mother, in an effort to curb Scarlett's enthusiasm, ships her off to a prestigious all-girls charter school. Scarlett thinks her life is absolutely...
| Author | Anne Mazer |
| ISBN | 0439482801 |
The latest book in this increasingly popular series focuses on the growing friendship between Abby and the new girl in school, Hannah.
When Abby and her new friend, Hannah, take charge of a class project to assemble gift packages for underprivileged children, one thing after the next goes...
