Freshman
10 best books like Freshman (Michael Gerber): A Land More Kind Than Home, A Step from Heaven, The Waking Dark, Blind Faith, The Last Exit to Normal, Big Fat Manifesto, The Opposite Of Music, Slumming, Burn, Sight
| Author | Wiley Cash |
| ISBN | 0062088149 |
A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town
For a curious boy like Jess Hall, growing up in Marshall...
| 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...
| Author | Robin Wasserman |
| ISBN | 0375868771 |
THEY CALLED IT THE KILLING DAY. Twelve people dead, in the space of a few hours. Five murderers: neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them now dead by their own hand . . . except one. And that one has no answers to offer the shattered town. She doesn't...
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 1416902732 |
"I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else...My mother is dying. She has leukemia and she came here to die."
Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. Liz just isn't sure she's the right person....
| Author | Michael Harmon |
| ISBN | 0375940987 |
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town...
| Author | Susan Vaught |
| ISBN | 1599902060 |
Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year, doing too much—including trying to change the world—and fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not quietly: she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes. As her column raises...
| Author | Janet Ruth Young |
| ISBN | 1416900403 |
when i am well
i will take you
At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind. Then he stopped listening to music, saying it hurt his ears. After a while he stopped eating and sleeping. And after that he just stopped. Stopped being Billy's father and his...
| Author | Kristen D. Randle |
| ISBN | 0060010223 |
Everybody has two eyes and a nose and a mouth. What makes some people beautiful and some people not?
Nikki never imagined that this offhand thought would change the course of her senior year forever. But when she poses the question to her best friends, Alicia and Sam, Alicia is suddenly inspired,...
| 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 | Adrienne Maria Vrettos |
| ISBN | 1416906576 |
Fifteen-year-old Dylan has horrific visions of the last moments of a child's life -- a child who has been abducted, kidnapped, or worse. Dylan gives the police valuable clues that help them to find children's bodies, but she keeps the most personal information about these young victims to herself....
| Author | Katherine Spencer |
| ISBN | 0152060960 |
I learned a lesson from this book. & i usually don't learn "life lessons" from what I read. I liked the girly kinds of books but i really liked this one. I never wanted to put it down. You find yourself figuring out that everything happens for a reason, to keep moving forward, & to always be true to...
| Author | Mal Peet |
| ISBN | 1406306495 |
Otello is South America's star soccer player, and he's just signed a deal to play for a team in the southern part of his country, a region with a history of racism toward black northerners like Otello. Desmerelda is a white pop star and the daughter of a right-wing politician. Their marriage propels them...
| Author | Jean-Claude Mourlevat |
| ISBN | 0763644501 |
In a gripping dystopian novel, four teenagers risk impossible odds to fight against tyranny in a world of dangerous choices — and reemerging hope.
Escape. Milena, Bartolomeo, Helen, and Milos have left their prison-like boarding schools far behind, but their futures remain in peril....
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| ISBN | 0545320690 |
Sometimes, the greatest comebacks take place far away from the ball field.
Meet Peter Friedman, high school freshman. Talented photographer. Former baseball star. When a freakish injury ends his pitching career, Peter has some major things to figure out. Is there life after sports? Why...
A Family in Danger
Ash is still falling from the sky two years after a series of globally devastating volcanic eruptions. Sunlight is as scarce as food, and cities are becoming increasingly violent as people loot and kill in order to maintain their existence. Sixteen-year-old Miles Newell...
| Author | Will Weaver |
| ISBN | 0060094761 |
Two years ago, the ash started falling like gray snow. The volcanoes had erupted. . . .
For Miles and his sister, Sarah, the real disaster started in the violent aftermath--when they were forced to leave their cushy suburban home and flee to the north woods for safety. Miles got them to a cabin,...
