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10 best books like I Wanna Be Your Shoebox (Cristina García): Me, the Missing, and the Dead, The Carbon Diaries 2015, Ten Things I Hate About Me, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Newes from the Dead, Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire, Lola: A Ghost Story, Curious Critters, The Big Game of Everything, Brutal

Me, the Missing, and the Dead
AuthorJenny Valentine
Me: Lucas Swain: I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy. The Dead: That's...
The Carbon Diaries 2015
AuthorSaci Lloyd
ISBN0340970154
[3.5] It takes a lot to get me reading YA ... like the only realistic fictionalisation (that I know of) of a Second World War-style rationing scheme implemented to curb environmental damage and climate change - a dream policy of plenty of hardcore greens. As I've often thought when reading posts by Marxists...
Ten Things I Hate About Me
AuthorRanda Abdel-Fattah
Randa Abdel-Fattah's new novel about finding your place in life . . . and learning to accept yourself and your culture.

At school I'm Aussie-blonde Jamie -- one of the crowd. At home I'm Muslim Jamilah -- driven mad by my Stone Age dad. I should win an Oscar for my acting skills. But I can't keep it...
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
AuthorJosh Berk
ISBN0375956999
Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback. Will can’t hear what’s going on, but he’s a great observer....
Newes from the Dead
AuthorMary Hooper
ISBN1596433558
WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!)Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if she'd dead, terrified she's buried alive, haunted by her final memory—of being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent...
Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire
AuthorJulius Lester
This is the story of Cupid--the god responsible for heartache, sleepless nights, and all those silly love songs—finally getting his comeuppance. When the god of love falls in love himself, things are bound to get interesting. And when he crosses his mama, Venus, in the process . . . Well, things could...
Lola: A Ghost Story
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...
Curious Critters
AuthorDavid FitzSimmons
ISBN1936607697
Enjoy amazing close-up images of twenty-one common yet often overlooked North American animals. Photographed against white backgrounds, their colors, shapes, textures, and seeming personalities shine. Whimsical but educational narratives accompanying each animal highlight fascinating...
The Big Game of Everything
AuthorChris Lynch
ISBN0060740345
You have to love your family. You do, even if you don't, right? You don't have to understand them or play tennis with them, but you have to love them. It's a rule, and it's the kind of rule you don't break unless you're some kind of animal.

My brother happens to be some kind of animal. My sister rides...
Brutal
AuthorMichael Harmon
ISBN0375940995
With her martyr-doctor mother gone to save lives in some South American country, Poe Holly suddenly finds herself on the suburban doorstep of the father she never knew, who also happens to be a counselor at her new high school. She misses Los Angeles. She misses the guys in her punk band. Weirdly, she even...
Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto
AuthorEric Luper
ISBN0061827533
Seth Baumgartner just had the worst day of his life.

His girlfriend dumped him (at Applebee's), he spied his father on a date with a woman who is not his mother (also at Applebee's!), and he lost his fourth job of the year. It's like every relationship he cares about is imploding, and he can't figure...
Everything Is Fine.
AuthorAnn Dee Ellis
ISBN0316013641
Stuck at home caring for her severely depressed mother and abandoned by her father, Mazzy has only the day-to-day dramas of her neighborhood to keep her busy. But between flirting with the boy next door and worrying about the fact that she's flat-chested, Mazzy has to face the fact that her mom is emotionally...
13
AuthorJason Robert Brown
13 Things to Know About 13

1. This book is about a guy named Evan.

2. Three months before his 13th birthday, he has to move from New York City 3. to Appleton, Indiana,

4. where nobody knows him.

5. He's not very happy about it.

6. His mom is kind of nuts.

7....
Frannie in Pieces
AuthorDelia Ephron
ISBN0060747161
What does you in—brain or heart? Frannie asks herself this question when, a week before she turns fifteen, her dad dies, leaving her suddenly deprived of the only human being on planet Earth she feels understands her. Frannie struggles to make sense of a world that no longer seems safe, a world in which...
Beanball
AuthorGene Fehler
ISBN0618843485
It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever.
In this riveting...
God Is in the Pancakes
AuthorRobin Epstein
ISBN0803733828
Fifteen-year-old Grace Manning is a candy striper in a nursing home, and Mr. Sands is the one patient who makes the job bearable. He keeps up with her sarcasm, teaches her to play poker . . . and one day cheerfully asks her to help him die. At first Grace says no way, but as Mr. Sands's disease progresses, she's...
We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes
AuthorPatrick Jennings
ISBN0060821140
I am a snake.
No, not a rattlesnake. I just look like one. I'm a gopher snake.
One day an oily, filthy, fleshy human child crossed my path. As luck would have it, he knew the difference between a gopher snake and a rattlesnake. He has imprisoned me in a terrarium. His name is Gunnar. He calls me Crusher....
The Not-Just-Anybody Family
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0330299743
When Junior Blossom wakes up in the hospital, his last memory is of crouching on the barn roof with cloth wings tied to his arms, and of Maggie and Vern in the yard below, urging him to fly. That had been just before Junior spotted a police car approaching the farm in a cloud of dust.Meanwhile Pap, the children's...
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0689864604
When Ruby's cousin Flying Duck emigrates from China to live with her, Ruby decides the best thing about Flying Duck is that she is a great new friend. BUT the worst thing about Flying Duck is that now, no one speaks English at home. Plus, there's strange food on the table every night and only chopsticks to...
The Unnameables
AuthorEllen Booraem
ISBN0152063684
Medford lives on a neat, orderly island called—simply—Island.
     Islanders like names that say exactly what a thing (or a person) is or does. Nothing less.
     Islanders like things (and people) to do what their names say they will. Nothing more.
     In fact, everything...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
AuthorChristopher Grau
ISBN0415774667
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years.

This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beginning with a helpful introduction that places each...
Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream
AuthorJenny Han
ISBN0316070386
Meet Clara Lee.
Likes: her best friends, her grandpa, her little sister (when she's not being annoying, which is almost always), candy necklaces, and the Apple Blossom Festival.

Dislikes: her little sister (when she's being annoying, which is almost always), her mom's yucky fish...
Summer Begins
AuthorElizabeth Doyle Carey
ISBN0316736902
This is the first in a series of summertime adventures of four cousins, Neeve, Hillary, Phoebe, and Kate. Lovers of wholesome, family oriented series like the Betsy-Tacy stories are likely to be the best audience for this new series. Laid on the coastal community of Gull Island (Rhode Island?)they...
Williwaw!
AuthorTom Bodett
ISBN0375806873
"Bodett, the genial voice in those Motel 6 commercials, offers a page-turner set in the wilds of Alaska, and he clearly knows the taste of sea and storm, the face of the landscape, and the sound of the loons and the scent of salmon. In this sentimental but rousing tale, September Crane, 13, and her 12-year-old...
Night of the Spadefoot Toads
AuthorBill Harley
ISBN1561454591
This satisfying story explores the powerful impact of our actions on the world around us.
When his father takes a new job in Massachusetts, Ben Moroney must leave behind his best friend Tony, a western banded gecko named Lenny, and worst of all, the Arizona desert home he has loved and explored.
Ben's...
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