Invisible
10 best books like Invisible (Pete Hautman): Picture Perfect, Gentlemen, The Rag and Bone Shop, Wrecked, Dunk, Blind Faith, Accidents of Nature, Alt Ed, Saint Iggy, Black and White
| Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
| ISBN | 0822564688 |
I read the book, Picture Perfect, by Elaine Marie Alphin. Ian Slater is not the most popular kid in school, but he has a best friend, Teddy, who is. After waking up from a bad dream with Teddy in it, Ian soon realizes that Teddy is missing. Little did anyone one know, Teddy had done some research and was searching...
| Author | Michael Northrop |
| ISBN | 0545097495 |
This debut YA novel combines the wrong-side-of-the-tracks edginess of books like The Outsiders and Freak the Mighty and the searingly honest storytelling of authors like Chris Lynch and John Green.
Micheal, Tommy, Mixer, and Bones aren't just from the wrong side of the tracks--they're...
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0440229715 |
Terse and terrifying, this final book from Cormier will leave a lasting impression. Jason, almost 13, is a shy, ineffectual child, who takes being bullied as a matter of course--but if he sees someone else being pushed around, he may strike back. When the seven-year-old girl who lives next door is murdered,...
| Author | E.R. Frank |
| ISBN | 0689873840 |
A tragic car wreck leads to PTSD and therapeutic salvation in this novel from the author of America, which Kirkus Reviews deemed “a work of sublime humanity.”
Anna is involved in a horrific accident one night that leaves her brother’s beautiful and popular girlfriend dead. Suffering...
| Author | David Lubar |
| ISBN | 0618439099 |
To the Bozo, the clown who sits inside the cage above the dunk tank, everyone is a "mark." Once he has zeroed in on his victim, the Bozo comes up with the perfect wisecrack something funny enough to make people stop and listen, and cruel enough to hook the mark. Now the mark is bent on revenge, and he'll buy...
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 1416902732 |
"I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else...My mother is dying. She has leukemia and she came here to die."
Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. Liz just isn't sure she's the right person....
| Author | Harriet McBryde Johnson |
| ISBN | 0805076344 |
Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara,...
| Author | Catherine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0142402354 |
Susan Calloway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates - and she's had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for the nearly expelled.
School is bad enough, but facing...
| Author | K.L. Going |
| ISBN | 0152057951 |
I am not so bad a person once you get to know me.
When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell. His mother has gone off, his father is stoned on the couch, and the phone's been disconnected, so even the social worker can't get through. Leaving his public...
| Author | Paul Volponi |
| ISBN | 0142406929 |
Marcus and Eddie are best friends who found the strength to break through the racial barrier. Marcus is black; Eddie is white. Stars of their school basketball team, they are true leaders who look past the stereotypes and come out on top. They are inseparable, watching each other's backs, both on and...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0786809205 |
"You know what punk is? A bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle Earth. So what's your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments...
10 December 2008 update added at the end.
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin is young adult mystery which my daughter handed me recently. The main character, Eli Samuels, a recent high school graduate, is at a crossroads in his life in more ways than one. His mother is completely debilitated and dying...
| Author | A.M. Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0060290994 |
I was surprised by how well the second person narrative fit this novel, considering I'd never really seen it done well before. The book tells the story of a high school senior struggling with depression and his relationship with a girl whose father has committed suicide. While the main character, Austin,...
| Author | Margaret Bechard |
| ISBN | 0689862687 |
Sam's girlfriend is pregnant but Sam is keeping the baby. Sam should be planning for college and trying out for the football team with his best friend, Andy. Instead he's up to his ears in diapers and formula, caring for his baby son, Max. Will Sam now have to make a gut-wrenching decision about Max's...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0142403903 |
"Feels like I've known him since before he got to the world-longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends really...Somewhere before life on earth..."
--Desire Viola Roselind, "Behind You", P. 24
"Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment."
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| Author | Walter Sorrells |
| ISBN | 0525475141 |
Chastity and her mom have always been on the run from something, but she never knew what until her mom disappears after chastity shows her a hidden part of herself. She leaves chastity not knowing who she is or what has happened. The next few days are miserable for chastity but her friend takes her in and...
| Author | Brenda Woods |
| ISBN | 0142404187 |
Emako Blue was supposed to be a star. She was beautiful and good-hearted. She was Monterey's best friend. She was the only girl Jamal cared about, the one who saw through his player act. She was the one who understood the burden of Eddie's family. She was the best singer anyone had ever heard, with a voice...
| Author | David Klass |
| ISBN | 0374399506 |
A taut psychological thriller for teens
Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But after six years, Troy’s sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison....
| Author | Terry Trueman |
| ISBN | 0064473767 |
In a busy coffee shop, a robbery goes wrong. Two gunmen hold seven hostages, including teenager Zach Wahhsted. What nobody realizes at first is that Zach is anything but ordinary and his troubled mind is more dangerous than any weapon. Terry Trueman has created a compelling character with the same shocking...
| Author | Danica Novgorodoff |
| ISBN | 1596435224 |
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...
| Author | Judie Oron |
| ISBN | 1554512719 |
One girl's harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land -- all based on a true story. In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its...
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania
| Author | Haya Leah Molnar |
| ISBN | 0374318409 |
Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva's family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safe—even...
A powerful, beautiful novel about growing up fast in a haunted suburban world. The proud debut of PUSH in hardcover.
Lacie's best friend Jenna wants to grow up fast. She wants to be cool and be known and be with a boy all the way. Even though Lacie isn't so sure, she follows Jenna anyway. She tries...
