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10 best books like How to Ditch Your Fairy (Justine Larbalestier): The Off Season, In the Hand of the Goddess, Abhorsen, Talking to Dragons, Enthusiasm, Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants, Princess in Waiting, Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox, Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls

The Off Season
AuthorCatherine Gilbert Murdock
ISBN0618686959
Life is looking up for D.J. Schwenk. She’s in eleventh grade, finally. After a rocky summer, she’s reconnecting in a big way with her best friend, Amber. She’s got kind of a thing going with Brian Nelson, who’s cute and popular and smart but seems to like her anyway. And then there’s the fact...
In the Hand of the Goddess
AuthorTamora Pierce
ISBN0689878567
Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebond becomes a squire, to none other than the prince of the realm. But Prince Jonathan is much more to Alanna; he is her ally, her best friend, and one of the few who knows that she's really a girl. Now it will take all of Alanna's awesome skill, strength, and growing magical...
Abhorsen
AuthorGarth Nix
ISBN0060278250
The Ninth was strong and fought with might
But lone Orannis was put out of the light
Broken in two and buried under hill
Forever to lie there, wishing us ill.

So says the song. But Orannis, the Destroyer, is no longer buried under hill. It has been freed from its subterranean prison...
Talking to Dragons
AuthorPatricia C. Wrede
ISBN0152046917
Always be polite to dragons!

That's what Daystar's mother taught him...and it's a very wise lesson--one that might just help him after his mom hands him a magic sword and kicks him out of the house. Especially because his house sits on the edge of the Enchanted Forest and his mother is Queen Cimorene.

But...
Enthusiasm
AuthorPolly Shulman
ISBN0399243895
Julie’s best friend, Ashleigh, is an enthusiast. Julie never knows what new obsession will catch Ashleigh’s fancy, but she does know she’s likely to be drawn into the madness. Ashleigh’s latest craze is Julie’s own passion, Pride and Prejudice. But Ashleigh can’t just appreciate it...
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
AuthorRobert Sullivan
ISBN1582344779
New York Public Library Book for the Teenager
New York Public Library Book to Remember
PSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year

"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Behold the rat,...
Princess in Waiting
AuthorMeg Cabot
ISBN0060096098
Never before has the world seen such a princess.

Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. Mia's royal introduction to Genovia has mixed results: while her fashion sense is widely applauded, her position on the installation of public parking meters is met with resistance.

But the...
Scrambled Eggs at Midnight
AuthorBrad Barkley
ISBN0525477608
Calliope (or Cal as she calls herself ) wants nothing more than to stay put, to stop traveling cross-country with her mother, sleeping in a tent, abandoning all belongings whenever they pull up stakes. Eliot misses the happy times he left behind when his father decided to open a camp for kids looking to...
Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox
AuthorBennett Madison
ISBN1595140867
It's the beginning of summer and all Lulu wants to do is have perfectly ordinary, non-crime-solving fun with her best friend Daisy, with her only problem being what to do about her friend-turned-boyfriend, Charlie, who has become less fun and more clingy since they started dating. No such luck for Lulu....
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls
AuthorBennett Madison
ISBN1595141049
Lulu Dark is the anti-Nancy—a chic, tough-talking city girl who never meant to get involved in a mystery.

But when her favorite purse is stolen during a Many Handsomes concert, Lulu knows she has to get it back. After all, it was one of a kind—and the lead singer's phone number was stashed...
Same Difference
AuthorSiobhan Vivian
ISBN0545004071
Portrait of the artist as a young girl, from new teen writer Siobhan Vivian

Emily is ready for a change. She's been in the same town with the same friends for a long time...and none of them really understand her art. But when she goes to Philadelphia for a summer art institute, she suddenly finds...
Untidy Towns
AuthorKate O'Donnell
ISBN0702259829
Seventeen-year-old Adelaide is sick of being expected to succeed on other people’s terms. She knows she just has to stick it out at school for one more year and then she’ll be free. Instead, she runs away from her fancy boarding school back to her sleepy hometown to read and dream.

But there...
Toffee
AuthorSarah Crossan
ISBN1408868121
The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan.

I am not who I say I am,
and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.

I am a girl trying to forget.
She is a woman trying to remember.

Allison has run away from home, and with...
My Brother's Name is Jessica
AuthorJohn Boyne
ISBN0241376157
Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and his busy parents often make him feel invisible.

Luckily for Sam, his older brother, Jason, has always been there for him. Sam idolises Jason, who seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing...
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