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10 best books like Girl Coming in for a Landing (April Halprin Wayland): Seeing Emily, The Geography of Girlhood, This Full House, Rubber Houses, God Went to Beauty School, Sweetgrass Basket, Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment, The Braid, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices, Almost Forever

Seeing Emily
AuthorJoyce Lee Wong
ISBN0810992582
The stunning new talent, Joyce Lee Wong, delivers a poignant, lyrical novel about the experiences of a Chinese American teenage girl by a stunning new talent.

In the successful style of David Levithan's The Realm of Possibility and Sonya Sones' What My Mother Doesn't Know, this free verse...
The Geography of Girlhood
AuthorKirsten Smith
ISBN0316017353
On her fourth birthday Penny received a globe from her mother: "If you ever need me . . . just remember I'll always be somewhere on here." Two weeks later her mother left, never to return. In a powerful verse novel, Penny charts the landscape of her high-school years--her older sister's wild ways, her best...
This Full House
AuthorVirginia Euwer Wolff
ISBN0061583049
Each discovery disturbs the arrangements of the known world, and it is our job to stay alert to all possibilities.

LaVaughn believes she is keeping alert to all possibilities. She has made it through the projects, she's gotten over heartbreak, she's grown up, and now she's been admitted to...
Rubber Houses
AuthorEllen Yeomans
Typical teenager Kit lives a happy, normal life of friends,boys, and loving family. She and her younger brother, Buddy, are incredibly close despite their eight-year age difference, bonded by a shared love of baseball and math. But when Buddy is taken suddenly by cancer, Kit and herparents struggle...
God Went to Beauty School
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0060094354
A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist.

Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might be like. Rylant's reflective and often humorous verse follows God as he tries out...
Sweetgrass Basket
AuthorMarlene Carvell
ISBN0525475478
In prose poetry and alternating voices, Marlene Carvell weaves a heartbreakingly beautiful story based on the real-life experiences of Native American children. Mattie and Sarah are two Mohawk sisters who are sent to an off-reservation school after the death of their mother. Subject to intimidation...
Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment
AuthorGeneen Roth
ISBN0452276799
I struggled initially with this book as I was expecting more of a prescriptive 'how to' approach, when what the author does is position it as more a discussion based on her own experiences and insights from other people.

However, I got into it and came to understand the style she adopted - because...
The Braid
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374309620
Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister - Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and Sarah, who hides so she can stay behind with her grandmother...
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0823418537
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more....
Almost Forever
AuthorMaria Testa
ISBN0763633666
"Rapt readers don’t need to know anything about Vietnam to understand love, loss, fear, and waiting. A tour de force." — KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)

When the six-year-old narrator of this lyric novel watches her father march off to serve a year in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, a year...
Split Image
AuthorMel Glenn
ISBN0060004819
Everyone has an image of Laura Li, the most popular girl in school: “stone hearted,” “warmhearted,” “conceited deceiver,” “humble achiever,” “a virgin,” “the hottest girl in the world.”

Award-winning poet Mel Glenn weaves a brilliant web of authentic voices...
By the River
AuthorSteven Herrick
ISBN1932425721
Through rich, vivid poetry, Harry Hodby brings readers into his remote Australian town. He documents the mundane and unique qualities of daily life and the quirkiness of the townspeople, and gives a lively sense of locale. Three-dimensional characters come alive as Harry offers his insightful take...
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763644358
Fielding his social life is a bigger challenge for Kevin than hitting a fastball in Ron Koertge’s funny, insightful sequel to SHAKESPEARE BATS CLEANUP.

Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball, a
knack for writing poetry — and a cute girlfriend named Mira...
42 Miles
AuthorTracie Vaughn Zimmer
ISBN0618618678
JoEllen’s parents divorced when she was very young, so she was used to splitting her time between them, shuttling four blocks from one Cincinnati apartment to another. But when her dad moved to the old family farm last year, her life was suddenly divided. Now on weekdays she’s a city girl, called...
Learning to Swim
AuthorAnn Turner
ISBN0439528313
A powerful true poetry memoir for anyone who has navigated the troubled waters of childhood and adolescence searching for a way to stay afloat, now in the new POINT.

Unfolding in a series of exquisite narrative poems, this is the haunting true story of a tragic summer in a young girl's life. Annie...
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805092404
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado--half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and...
The Accidental Genius of Weasel High
AuthorRick Detorie
ISBN1606841491
A book for the Wimpy Kid who has grown into a Wimpy Teen
 
Larkin Pace desperately wants a new camcorder. How else is he going to become the next great filmmaker? But his dad won’t give him any money, his sister is determined to make his life miserable, and his nemesis Dalton Cooke is trying to...
The Dancing Pancake
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0375858709
DELICIOUS PANCAKES!!
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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...
Tune: Vanishing Point
AuthorDerek Kirk Kim
Andy's life is going nowhere, fast. He left art school with his career all worked out ahead of time, but ...to say  it didn't work out is the understatement of the century. Unemployed and living with his overbearing parents, Andy  struggles to keep sight of the lofty goals that once drove him. But it's...
The Never Weres
AuthorFiona Smyth
ISBN1554512840
Late in the next century, the human race is on the verge of extinction. A mysterious virus has resulted in no births in almost a generation. Despite the impending doom, three urban teenagers try to live their lives with hope.

Mia strives to preserve humanity’s compassion through her art and...
Garage Band
AuthorGipi
ISBN1596432063
When Giuliano's father loans him the family garage, he and three of his friends form a band. Playing their battered secondhand instruments, the four teenagers find something they love to do, and they find in their friendship and music a refuge from difficult and turbulent home lives. But when their...
Fishtailing
AuthorWendy Phillips
ISBN1550504118
Teen violence, bullying and the burning quest to fit in are presented in the poems of four unforgettable high school students: Natalie, Kyle, Tricia, Miguel. Their stories unfold in this explosive new book told in free verse. A story of teen angst like no other, it is based on fictional characters but...
Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
AuthorMitali Perkins
ISBN0763658669
Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race.

Listen in as ten YA authors -- some familiar, some new -- use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers...
Sea Change
AuthorFrank Viva
ISBN1935179926

Publishers Weekly BEST Books for Summer 2016

"Sea Change is like a dip in cold Canadian waters: just step inside, and soon you're completely swept away, finding yourself overwhelmed and breathless, entranced by this whirlwind of a book. Bravo, Frank Viva. And glub, glub, glub." - Lemony...
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