Gangsta Rap
10 best books like Gangsta Rap (Benjamin Zephaniah): The All-New Atom, Vol. 1: My Life in Miniature, Jim Thorpe, Original All-American, Swollen, Famous, Hidden, The Long Night of Leo and Bree, Girl Wonder, Katie.com: My Story, Voices, Azzi in Between
The All-New Atom, Vol. 1: My Life in Miniature
| Author | Gail Simone |
| ISBN | 1401213251 |
Best-selling author Gail Simone helps launch the career of an all-new hero bearing the mantle of the Atom -- a hero who shrinks in size to battle evil Strange things are happening in Ivy Town. In fact, it appears that the whole town's been experimented on for decades. Enter Ryan Choi -- the young hotshot...
Jim Thorpe, Original All-American
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0803731183 |
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League Baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track & field. But his life wasn’t an easy one. Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887, he encountered much family tragedy, and was sent as a young...
| Author | Melissa Lion |
| ISBN | 0553494082 |
Samantha only wants to be loved. By her father, by her best friend, and now by the new boy at school, Farouk. The more time Sam spends with him, the more she can’t stop thinking about him. But she’s cautious, because people can hurt. To escape, Sam runs track at school, finishing every race, but never...
At fourteen, Jamie Gordon took some photos of a famous model’s embarrassing moment and sold them to a tabloid, which led to her own first taste of fame. Now sixteen and a professional paparazzo, she’s in LA to document a week in the life of starlet Willow Twine. Jamie feels as if she and Willow are friends,...
| Author | Tomas Mournian |
| ISBN | 0758251319 |
When Ahmed's parents send him to a residential treatment center known as Serenity Ridge, it's with one goal: to "fix" their son, at any cost. But eleven months of abuse and overmedication leave him desperate to escape. And when the opportunity comes, Ahmed runs away to San Francisco.
There, he moves...
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 0689863357 |
NOBODY SHOULD HAVE A NIGHT LIKE THIS. 8:30 P.M.: It's been four years since Michelle was killed. Leo can't stand to be at home with his mom -- she's crazy with rage. He's got anger of his own and pictures of his dead sister he can't get out of his head. 9:00 P.M.: Bree parks her mom's car and locks the doors. She's...
It's senior year and Charlotte Locke has just transferred to a new high school. With no friends, a terrible math SAT score, and looming college application deadlines, the future starts to seem like a black hole.
Then Amanda enters her orbit like a hot-pink meteor, offering Charlotte a ticket...
| Author | Katherine Tarbox |
| ISBN | 0452282535 |
Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-three-year-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student, and nationally ranked swimmer, attending an elite school in an affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and self-conscious eighth-grader who craved the attention her workaholic...
| Author | Sue Mayfield |
| ISBN | 0340860634 |
Recently dumped by Jamie—her arrogant boyfriend—Isabel Bright hopes to take her mind off things on a family vacation on the west coast of Scotland. One day, Isabel spots an empty bottle on the shore. She puts her name and address on a note in the bottle and hurls it far out to sea. Back home, Isabel throws...
| Author | Sarah Garland |
| ISBN | 1847802613 |
Azzi and her parents are in danger. They have to leave their home and escape to another country on a frightening journey by car and boat. In the new country they must learn to speak a new language, find a new home and Azzi must start a new school. With a kind helper at the school, Azzi begins to learn English...
| Author | Sally Nicholls |
| ISBN | 1407121723 |
A deadly contagion races through England...
Isabel and her family have nowhere to run from a disease that has killed half of Europe. When the world she knows and loves ends forever, her only weapon is courage.
The Black Death of 1349 was the deadliest plague in human history. All Fall...
Fantastic Tales of Ray Bradbury
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0807229008 |
Read by the author
Contents: Introduction (00:45) -- The lake (13:49) -- The smile (11:53) -- The foghorn (19:18) -- The veldt (28:00) -- The crowd (20:51) -- John Huff's leavetaking (from Dandelion wine) (19:43) -- Illuminations (16:30) -- The illustrated man (28:31) -- Marionettes, Inc....
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0385731701 |
Bobby Burns knows he’s a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars reflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawns with her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness seems to be approaching Bobby’s life from all sides. Bobby’s...
Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are pursuing her to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost ends up in a frying pan, and she's nothing but a pest to her older brother Fofana, but Akissi is a true adventurer, full of silliness and fun, and nothing will scare her for long!
Part of the Sélection...
| Author | Jill Hucklesby |
| ISBN | 1846163420 |
Meet Amy. She thinks that being thirteen and the fastest freestyle swimmer in the county is cool. She thinks that best friends will always be there no matter what, She believes that strawberry smoothies are the closest thing to heaven.
When her life takes a dramatic tumble turn one day, Amy doesn't...
椿町ロンリープラネット 1 [Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet 1]
| Author | Mika Yamamori |
| ISBN | 4088454294 |
Status-Read up till chapter 33
UPDATE, 01.02.2016 I am still very much a noob when it comes to manga so I am not really in the position to comment on how the artwork/plotline compares to the others, but to my untrained eye, it looked so soft and pretty. As for the story, I think I have watched enough...
| Author | Sophie McKenzie |
| ISBN | 1847387632 |
The long-awaited sequel to Blood Ties, by the bestselling author of Girl, Missing, the Medusa Project series and the All About Eve series.
Clones Rachel and Theo now live hundreds of miles apart. They keep in touch, but things just aren't the same. When Rachel discovers that evil scientist...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0140343113 |
From the recipient of the Newbery Honor award for his contemporary classic, Hatchet, comes another page-turning, heart-stopping adventure.
Carl and his cousin are lost and getting desperate when they find a shack hidden in the woods. It's their only chance for shelter--but who could be...
The last thing the lead singer of a rock band wants to hear is that he shouldn’t sing anymore. This is the reality for Luke Nolan, just as Fallen Tuesday is breaking big. With a tour, an album, and money on the line, Luke can’t imagine his life – or his band – not continuing to follow their dream. Even...
| Author | Jeanne Willis |
| ISBN | 1844286495 |
What is magic? What is illusion? What is real? Step into the extraordinary world of Sam Khaan, who has just discovered a witch doctor's notebook in her attic. Convinced that it belongs to her long-lost father - the son of a witch doctor - she sets out on a journey to discover the answers to these questions....
I wasn't keen on how Electra kept getting involved with the police at the beginning but it petered out and that made me happier. I am intrigued as to how it is all going to go with a new sibling for Electra and am very disappointed that as Frazier is no longer considered a freak boy she is willing to go out with...
| Author | Malorie Blackman |
| ISBN | 0385600097 |
When the mysterious stranger shows up at Nova's parents' hotel, she thinks her luck has changed - until she realizes she's the only one who can see him.
Liam explains he's been here a long time. And he can never leave, no matter how hard he tries.
Soon, Nova begins to piece his tragic story...
