Freak
10 best books like Freak (Marcella Pixley): Here Today, Kissing the Bee, Undercover, Dunk, Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature, Quaking, This Is What I Did, The Truth about Truman School, Returnable Girl, Joseph
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0439856256 |
In 1963, Ellie's mother, Doris Day Dingman, was crowned the Bosetti Beauty at Mr. Bosetti's supermarket, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the Dingmans began to fall apart." So begins 11-yr-old Eleanor Roosevelt Dingman's story. Ellie, who is about to start 6th grade in the small town...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0374399387 |
Senior year is flying by, the prom is approaching, and Dana, her best friend, Avra, and Avra's boyfriend, Emil, are about to encounter the pains and pleasures of that intricate beehive called adult life. While Dana plans on college, Avra plots escape once school is over—and plans to take Emil along...
| Author | Beth Kephart |
| ISBN | 0061238937 |
Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, Elisa ghostwrites love notes for the boys in her school. But when Elisa falls for Theo Moses, things change fast. Theo asks for verses to court the lovely Lila—a girl known for her beauty, her popularity, and a cutting ability to remind Elisa that she has none of...
| Author | David Lubar |
| ISBN | 0618439099 |
To the Bozo, the clown who sits inside the cage above the dunk tank, everyone is a "mark." Once he has zeroed in on his victim, the Bozo comes up with the perfect wisecrack something funny enough to make people stop and listen, and cruel enough to hook the mark. Now the mark is bent on revenge, and he'll buy...
| Author | Robin Brande |
| ISBN | 0615960146 |
I knew today would be ugly...
It's the first day of high school for Mena, and already her world looks bleak: she's an outcast, all her former friends hate her, even her parents barely speak to her anymore. And why? Because she tried to do the right thing. And then everything went wrong.
But...
| Author | Kathryn Erskine |
| ISBN | 0399247742 |
Don't call her Matilda. Her name is Matt. And don't even think about getting close to her. She doesn't need anyone. Can't you tell by looking at her, dressed all in black with a spider painted on her face and her ice-cold stare? But most of all, do not bully her. She has been through it all already. But everything...
| 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 | Dori Hillestad Butler |
| ISBN | 0807580953 |
The Truth about Truman School was a total surprise.
I bought the book at the school's Book Fair for two reasons. It was marked $2.50 (and well within my budget) and the back cover said that it was about teens who decide to tell the truth about life in middle school, not the expurgated lies adults...
| Author | Pamela Lowell |
| ISBN | 0761453172 |
Abandoned. That's how Ronnie Hartman feels after her mother and Kenny, her mom's good-for-nothing boyfriend, move to Alaska, bringing Ronnie's two younger brothers with them and leaving her behind. Now thirteen years old, Ronnie has been returned from multiple foster homes because of her impulsive...
| Author | Shelia P. Moses |
| ISBN | 1416917527 |
For Joseph Flood, life is tough. Tough because of Mama's addiction to drugs and alcohol. Tough because Daddy is away with the army fighting in Iraq. Tough because it looks like there's no way out once you're living in a homeless shelter in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood. And tough because Joseph...
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0152060227 |
On his thirteenth birthday, Ronnie woke up feeling like a chimp--all long armed, big eared, and gangly. He's been muddling through each gawky day since. Now his best friend, Joey, has turned thirteen, too--and after Joey humiliates himself in front of a cute girl, he climbs a tree and refuses to come...
| Author | Suzanne Marie Phillips |
| ISBN | 0316014133 |
Chloe Doe chronicles a 17-year-old girl's tumultuous path to becoming a prostitute and her ultimate transformation back into mainstream society. During her therapy at Madeline Parker Institute for Girls, Chloe slowly reveals aspects of her painful past--the stepfather who abused her sister,...
| Author | Mariah Fredericks |
| ISBN | 0689876556 |
What if, for once, the losers won out against the über-cools? GeekGirl gets GreekGod? It'd turn the school upside down.
But that's what Zoe's World, a website that Eberly's eighth-grade girls check out daily, is suggesting. Only Anna, Eve, and Syd know that the cards -- the mysterious tarot deck...
| Author | Melissa Wyatt |
| ISBN | 0374302332 |
Remy Walker has it all: he found the love of his life at home in crumbling little Dwyer, West Virginia, deep in his beloved Appalachian Mountains where his family settled more than one hundred and sixty years ago. But at seventeen, you're not supposed to already be where you want to be, right? You've got...
| Author | Laura McNeal |
| ISBN | 0375831061 |
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Sixteen-year-old Lana Morris wishes her life were different: her Ice Queen of a foster mother won't leave her alone, and she has no friends but the other foster kids she takes care of.
Then...
| Author | Jessica Green |
| ISBN | 1580891667 |
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| Author | Michelle D. Kwasney |
After the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores Colchester, better known as “Itch,” moves with her grandmother from Florida to Ohio. Starting over is hard, and Itch feels like an outsider in her new school, until she becomes friends with popular baton-twirling Gwendolyn. On the outside, Gwendolyn...
| Author | Jill Wolfson |
| ISBN | 0805076700 |
The new novel from Jill Wolfson—an exciting, fresh voice in middle-grade fiction
Whitney has been in so many foster homes that she can give a complete rundown on the most common varieties of foster parents—from the look-on-the-bright-side types to those unfortunate examples of pure...
Every Little Thing in the World
A teenager. A pregnancy. A familiar story. NOT
When sixteen-year-old Sydney Biggs’s pregnancy test shows the tell tale plus sign, she confides in only her best friend Natalia, and Natalia promptly “borrows” her mother’s car so Sydney can confront the baby’s father. But after...
| Author | Olivia Gardner |
| ISBN | 0061544620 |
Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and Sarah Buder. The girls were so moved by Olivia's story that...
| Author | Angela Johnson |
| ISBN | 0142405442 |
How do you use the gift of a heart which isn't yours? How does one beg the most important question when they couldn't stand to hear the answer either way?
Bird is a leisurely-paced novella that centers around three teens who all are still coping with tragedies faded but still visible - divorce,...
| Author | Patrick Jones |
| ISBN | 0802796990 |
Mick Salisbury wonders how he got where he is. For as long as he can remember, people have been saying the same thing about life being a series of choices. The problem is, he's never been particularly good at making the right ones, especially since he was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, where most people...
| Author | Amy Goldman Koss |
| ISBN | 1596431180 |
"IwithVY: I told Ms. Gold about how The Evil Three have been after me, feeding off me since fourth grade.
MARCO: It isn't a very pretty story, so if you're looking for 'nice,' you better ask someone else.
ANN: We just have to come up wiht some witnesses for our side. Think! Does anyone owe you any...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0060587636 |
Are you growing tired of royal balls and boring banquets with visiting kings and princes? Do you long to escape the confines of the palace and find yourself in a completely new place, surrounded by other princesses your own age?
Camp Princess is the perfect place for any princess to find a summer...
