Head Games
10 best books like Head Games (Mariah Fredericks): Razzle, 24 Girls in 7 Days, Are You Alone on Purpose?, Zip, Just Another Day in My Insanely Real Life, Lucy the Giant, The Book of the Wind, The Primrose Way, Sniper, Circle of Gold
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 0689856008 |
Razzle Penney, an oddball teen who works at the town dump, befriends Ken Baker when he and his parents first move to Cape Cod. Ken is drawn to Razzle's eccentricities, and she inspires the best photographs he has taken. However, she also introduces him to her nemesis, Harley, a boy-crazy beauty who gets...
| Author | Alex Bradley |
| ISBN | 0142408344 |
The first third of this book was amazing. I thought, "I have found another brilliant YA author who is HILARIOUS that I can now Google relentlessly and stalk online!" Really, the beginning of the book was hysterical. I was laughing out loud at least once per page.
Then the book got a lot more laborious...
| Author | Nancy Werlin |
| ISBN | 0142407771 |
Harry Roth is the bane of Alison shandling’s existence. He’s obnoxious and rude, and thinks nothing of taunting brainy Alison or making comments about her autistic twin brother. Alison tries to ignore him, but since she sees him at school and at synagogue, he’s hard to avoid. then Harry is injured...
| Author | Ellie Rollins |
| ISBN | 1595145702 |
A girl discovers adventure at every highway turn in this effervescent debut that's Savvy meets Little Miss Sunshine
After Lyssa's mother dies, her kind but clueless new stepfather moves with her to the suburbs of Seattle in the hopes of making a fresh start. But Lyssa feels lost and adrift in...
| 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 | Sherri L. Smith |
| ISBN | 0440229278 |
Lucy Otswego is a big girl who towers over just about everyone and everything in her small Alaskan town, except for her father's horrible reputation as a mean drunk. At 15, she runs away from the cruel classmates who see her only as "the Giant," the embarrassed adults who pity her, and the abusive father...
| Author | Carrie Asai |
| ISBN | 0689864337 |
When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers named me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and protected. For nineteen years, I thought I was lucky.
I'm learning how wrong I was.
I'VE LOST EVERYTHING....
| Author | Jackie French Koller |
Living in a rough Puritan missionary settlement that borders an Indian village, sixteen-year-old Rebekah is forced to choose between two cultures when she falls in love with a defiant Pawtucket medicine man. “Issues about separation of church and state, the scandalous idea of thinking for oneself,...
| Author | Theodore Taylor |
| ISBN | 0152061533 |
When Ben's parents go to Africa, they leave the fourteen-year-old in charge of the family's wild animal preserve. Everything seems to be running smoothly until one night when the silence is broken by the sound of peacocks screeching. When Ben leaves the house to investigate, he sees a terrifying...
| Author | Candy Dawson Boyd |
| ISBN | 0590432664 |
The story Circle of Gold is about a girl named Mattie. Mattie had just lost her father and she lives with her mother and her two little brothers. Mattie’s mother has not been feeling well so Mattie decided to buy her a wonderful present for mother’s day. One day while Mattie was shopping , she saw a gold...
| Author | Jon Hassler |
| ISBN | 0449703231 |
This book is not just a mystery or action book its has great feeling to it. The characters have life because this book has some truth behind it. The main character is a real person that person wrote this book and many more. He has a way to make the character have pop out of the book and stay with you.
My...
| Author | Gigi Amateau |
| ISBN | 0763637661 |
A sequel to Chancey of the Maury River, this heart-tugging story focuses on Macadoo — the gentle giant of the Maury River Stables.
When Macadoo is just a colt, he challenges his father — a huge Belgian stallion — in order to protect his dam. From that moment on, Mac knows that his purpose...
| Author | Jeremy Brown |
| ISBN | 0439769345 |
An updated version of Donold Sobol's TWO-MINUTE MYSTERIES, investigated by a CSI using modern forensic techniques rather than old-fashioned sleuthing.
Four-minute forensic mysteries are solved by a cast of quirky but lovable characters. Their wisecracking leader is CSI Wes Burton who...
Sex. Fame. Rock 'n' Roll.
Four teens on the fast track to pop-rock superstardom reveal the uncensored truth about the glamorous, backstabbing world of sudden celebrity.
Introducing...
The Voice: Sweet, trusting Kendall sings like an angel--and is about to discover her devilish...
Four Things My Geeky-Jock-Of-A-Best-Friend Must Do in Europe
| Author | Jane Harrington |
| ISBN | 1581960417 |
Bought this lighthearted teen story as my tenth book in a ten for a dollar sale. While I didn't expect much I was quite pleased. The story is told from the point of view of a bright and snarky 13 year old girl on a trip to Europe with her mother.
It's generally fun and funny and has a series of good natured...
| Author | Mitali Perkins |
| ISBN | 0440238404 |
Jasmine “Jazz” Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother’s doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn’t Jazz’s idea of a great summer vacation. She wants no part of her mother’s...
| Author | Jan Blazanin |
| ISBN | 1416579931 |
If life were a fairy tale, Oribella Bettencourt would have a "happily ever after" kind of future ahead of her. A Hollywood producer has come to Des Moines in search of a perfectly modern Princess Rapunzel, and Ori -- a model, dancer, and star of the beauty pageant circuit -- lands the part. And why shouldn't...
| Author | Meg Tilly |
| ISBN | 0887768105 |
War-torn Afghanistan could not seem farther from Newfoundland, but it is about to change twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline, as her mother insists on calling her) forever. When her father is killed in the war, she watches helplessly as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression....
| Author | Rick Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1627791116 |
Adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times–bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that day—June 6, 1944—the day that led to the liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. They came by sea and by sky to reclaim freedom from the occupying...
Since I’m already very familiar with the second series of “Rayearth”, I’m just going to be covering the differences between this rerelease and the original US release from Tokyopop in the 90′s.
To be honest, I never did figure out why CLAMP did another installment of “Rayearth”...
| Author | Hailey Abbott |
| ISBN | 0385732201 |
After years of watching couples come to blows over ice sculptures, Abby wants no part of the family business. She’d rather spend weekends kicking a soccer ball or antagonizing Noah, the cute son of a famous pastry chef–not doing the Electric Slide.
Then Abby’s barely legal sister, Carol,...
