How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story

10 best books like How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story (Tracy White): Monkey taming, Restricted, Japan AI: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan, Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Kings in Disguise, Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder, Lola: A Ghost Story, Life, Vol. 3, Ivy

Monkey taming
AuthorJudith Fathallah
ISBN0099488450
"You've eaten too much, you fat pig."

When Jessica was thirteen years old, she met the Monkey.

The Monkey lived inside her: a driving, fiery voice telling her that thinness was the only way. The only way to be safe, to be good, to be acceptable and above all, to escape from the cold, looming...
Restricted
AuthorJennifer Kinsel
"I thought that once I had lost the weight, I would feel better about myself and maybe I would be something special. Well, I have lost weight, I do not feel better about myself, and I am still nothing special." "Restricted" takes readers into the mind of a nineteen year old girl named Erin. Brought on by the...
AuthorAimee Major Steinberger
ISBN1933617837
Join Aimee Major Steinberger on the ultimate fangirl vacation in Japan!

This rapid-fire adventure is full of everything fans dream of seeing: cosplay on the infamous Harajuku Street, fantasy restaurants, maid cafes, Tokyo’s largest doll store, beautiful shrines, bookstores full of...
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
AuthorG. Neri
ISBN1584302674
In August of 1994, 11-year-old Robert “Yummy” Sandifer — nicknamed for his love of sweets — fired a gun at a group of rival gangmembers, accidentally killing a neighborhood girl, Shavon Dean. Police searched Chicago’s southside for three days before finding Yummy dead in a railway tunnel,...
AuthorRichard Appignanesi
ISBN0810993252
"Now presenting Manga Shakespearethe Bards greatest plays in an accessible, lively format for a new generation of readers"
Romeo and Juliet" is ideally suited for the manga formatit has teenage heroes, scheming and villainous adults, heartbreaking tragedy, and the ultimate romantic plot...
AuthorJames Vance
ISBN0393328481
This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time by The Comics Journal, Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January 1932, and movie-loving...
AuthorNadia Shivack
ISBN0689852169
"Every day, meal by meal, millions of people suffer from eating disorders. I am one of them."

Nadia Shivack was fourteen years old when she met Ed, her eating disorder. Sometimes like an alien in her body, sometimes like a lover, Ed was unpredictable and exciting, but ultimately always dangerous...
AuthorJ. Torres
ISBN1934964336
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother—a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town... the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating...
AuthorKeiko Suenobu
ISBN1595329331
Ayumu is trapped between a blackmailing Katsumi on one side and an angry Manami on the other: If she doesn't shut up about Katsumi's sexual assault on her, he's going to expose bondage pictures of her to the whole school! And if she doesn't give the silent treatment to Hatori, the only person that has offered...
AuthorSarah Oleksyk
Ivy, a teenager from a small town, longs to leave and pursue her dream of becoming a painter. But life isn't easy when you never know the right thing to say. After beginning a long-distance relationship with a kindred spirit, Ivy gets a glimpse of freedom too good to pass up. Only while trying to escape her...
AuthorJohn Harris Dunning
ISBN1406320528
A mundane life takes a strange and magical turn in this rich gothic fantasy told with vivid black-and-white art -- a graphic novel perfect for a Halloween night.

As he twists the key and slowly creeps into the grand mansion left to him in his father's will, Salem Brownstone has an eerie feeling...
AuthorAaron Renier
ISBN1596434538
Walker Bean never wanted to be a high-seas pirate waging a pitched battle against the forces of the deep. It just worked out that way.

Mild, meek, and a little geeky, Walker is always happiest in his grandfather's workshop, messing around with his inventions. But when his beloved grandfather...
AuthorYoume Landowne
ISBN1933693061
On the subway, do ever notice that people are always looking, but they only see what they want to? Things can be sitting right in front of them and still they can’t see it.

That’s your guide Anthony speaking. He’ll show you how he lives in the tunnels underneath the New York City subway system—that...
AuthorEric Heuvel
ISBN0374365172
Esther remembers her own experience of the Holocaust as a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, and recounts to her grandson Daniel and his friend Jeroen how she escaped from the Nazis and survived by going into hiding in the countryside. Her parents were not so lucky. Esther knows they were sent to a concentration...
AuthorGeoffrey Canada
ISBN0807044490
Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,” and First Lady Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” Geoffrey Canada was a small and scared boy growing up in the...
AuthorDanica Novgorodoff
ISBN1596435224
Fathers, sons, and the war that comes between them.

There's nothing Josh, Cody, and Gordon want more than their fathers home safely from the war in Iraq -- unless it's to get out of their dead-end town. Refresh, Refresh is the story of three teenagers on the cusp of high school graduation and their...
John's Secret Dreams: The Life of John Lennon
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
ISBN0786808179
This book is a wonderful introduction to John Lennon and the Beattles for kids who have never heard of them or wonder what they are about. Part of my niece and nephew is there musical education and they can name all 4 members of the band and songs too.

I thought the art was amazing and it fit so well...
Four Eyes, Vol. 1: Forged in Flames
AuthorJoe Kelly
ISBN1607062925
It's 1934 in New York City during the Great Depression and dragon eggs are a coveted item as they can be trained for arena fights which are quite lucrative. Wait, what? Dragons? That isn't in the history books but then this isn't your reality or world, people.

Enrico, a boy who seems to be barely...
The Year of the Beasts
AuthorCecil Castellucci
ISBN1596436867
Every summer the trucks roll in, bringing the carnival and its infinite possibilities to town. This year Tessa and her younger sister Lulu are un-chaperoned and want to be first in line to experience the rides, the food... and the boys. Except this summer, jealousy will invade their relationship for...
My Demon's Name Is Ed
AuthorDanah Khalil
ISBN1927583969
Danah's eating disorder has a personality – it's a demon she calls Ed, the voice in her head that undermines her self-esteem and her perception of the world. How can she explain that even when she tries to develop healthier eating habits, there is a demon wriggling inside her mind, determining her every...
Mr. Maxwell's Mouse
AuthorFrank Asch
Mr. Maxwell is one contented cat. He has just been promoted. And what better way to celebrate than by going to his favorite restaurant, the Paw and Claw?

He decides to live a little and order the house specialty --- a live mouse. When the headwaiter asks if they should kill the mouse, Mr. Maxwell...
With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child
AuthorKeiko Tobe
ISBN0759523592
Sachiko and Masato Azuma have overcome numerous obstacles in dealing with their firstborn son Hikaru's autism. Having saved their marriage from ending in ruins, the young couple has welcomed a healthy baby girl, Kanon, into their tight-knit family. But with the obvious differences between Hikaru's...
Red: A Haida Manga
AuthorMichael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this stunning full-colour graphic novel documents the tragic story of a leader so blinded by revenge that he leads his community to the brink of war and destruction. Consisting of 108 pages of hand-painted illustrations, Red is a groundbreaking mix of...
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