Isabelle's Boyfriend
10 best books like Isabelle's Boyfriend (Caroline Hickey): The ABC's of Kissing Boys, Converting Kate, No Laughter Here, Box Out, 7 Days at the Hot Corner, Dumped by Popular Demand, Deadville, Returnable Girl, Hold Me Tight, Mercy on These Teenage Chimps
The ABC's of Kissing Boys
Author | Tina Ferraro |
ISBN | 0385735820 |
Parker Stanhope has played soccer practically since she could walk. And now that she’s a high school junior, everything she’s worked for is finally coming together. She’s paid her dues on the field, and as an upperclassman, she’s a shoo-in for the varsity team. But that’s not what happens.
This...
Author | Beckie Weinheimer |
ISBN | 0670061522 |
Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church. It influenced everything from her homeschooling to her handmade clothes. But ever since her unbelieving father's death last year, she has suspected that there's more to life than memorizing scripture.
Taking advantage of their move to a new town,...
Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
ISBN | 0688162479 |
Even though they were born in different countries, Akilah and Victoria are true best friends. But Victoria has been acting strange ever since she returned from her summer in Nigeria, where she had a special coming-of-age ceremony. Why does proud Victoria, named for a queen, slouch at her desk and answer...
Author | John Coy |
ISBN | 0439870321 |
John Coy turns to the high-stakes world of high school basketball in this fast-paced YA novel.
Liam has just been bumped up to starter on the varsity basketball team, and the pressure's on. With the girls' team heading to State, the boys' team is under even greater scrutiny than usual in Liam's...
Author | Terry Trueman |
ISBN | 0060574941 |
In baseball, fielding your position at third base is tricky—that's why third is called "the hot corner." You have to be aware that anything can happen at any time.
This should be the best year of Scott's life: It's his last season of varsity ball, his team is about to go to the city championship,...
Author | P.G. Kain |
ISBN | 1416935193 |
Dorie Dilts is about to move from California to New Jersey, and instead of seeing this as the worst thing to happen to her in her 13 years, Dorie sees this as a great opportunity--an opportunity to reinvent herself as one of the popular crowd, that is. When she arrives at her new school, she immediately sets...
Author | Ron Koertge |
ISBN | 0763635804 |
Ron Koertge's spot-on repartee highlights the wry, poignant tale of a teen who is numbed by loss but finds an unusual route to reclaiming his life.
Listening to music 24/7. Hanging out with his slacker-stoner friend, Andy. Basically, Ryan's been sleepwalking through life since his younger...
Author | Pamela Lowell |
ISBN | 0761453172 |
Abandoned. That's how Ronnie Hartman feels after her mother and Kenny, her mom's good-for-nothing boyfriend, move to Alaska, bringing Ronnie's two younger brothers with them and leaving her behind. Now thirteen years old, Ronnie has been returned from multiple foster homes because of her impulsive...
Author | Lorie Ann Grover |
ISBN | 0689852487 |
"I'm leaving."
Dad's words come as a complete shock to Essie. How can he just walk out on her and the family, especially when Mom is pregnant?Essie keeps her dad's leaving a secret. Then Essie's classmate, Chris Crow, disappears, and everyone finds out he's been kidnapped. Is Chris okay? Is Dad ever...
Author | Gary Soto |
ISBN | 0152060227 |
On his thirteenth birthday, Ronnie woke up feeling like a chimp--all long armed, big eared, and gangly. He's been muddling through each gawky day since. Now his best friend, Joey, has turned thirteen, too--and after Joey humiliates himself in front of a cute girl, he climbs a tree and refuses to come...
Author | Janet Nichols Lynch |
ISBN | 0823421856 |
Aww, I loved this book.
R.D. is a 15 year old Mexican-American kid starting 8th grade for the second time. His father is out of the picture and his mother has long been gone away, serving time in prison for a drug offense. He is taken in by his grandmother, but she leaves him with her boyfriend Earl...
Author | Julie Gonzalez |
ISBN | 0385732287 |
The character Will is such a bully! But he got what he deserved by being put in jail. He pressured all his friends (Ryan,Daniel,and Connor) in to playing the game russian roulet. He finally got Connor and Ryan to take a turn, but he thought Daniel was to chicken (which he was). Then Will decided to make daniel...
Author | E.E. Charlton-Trujillo |
ISBN | 0385733321 |
Growing up in a dead-end South Texas town, Mickey had two things she could count on: her big brother, Danny—the football hero everyone loved—and a beat-up copy of The Outsiders. But after the accident—after Danny abandoned her to a town full of rumors and a drunken father—all Mickey had left...
Author | Olivia Birdsall |
ISBN | 0385733704 |
Mia never thought she'd be the child of a broken home. Yet when she's 15 years old, one day her father just up and moves out. As her family life crumbles, her love life is finally coming together. Julian, her brother Allen's best friend and her longtime crush, has finally noticed her—and being with Julian...
Author | Mariah Fredericks |
ISBN | 0689876556 |
What if, for once, the losers won out against the über-cools? GeekGirl gets GreekGod? It'd turn the school upside down.
But that's what Zoe's World, a website that Eberly's eighth-grade girls check out daily, is suggesting. Only Anna, Eve, and Syd know that the cards -- the mysterious tarot deck...
Author | Jill S. Alexander |
ISBN | 0312548567 |
Almost-15-year-old Austin Gray is tired of standing at the curb and watching the parade pass her by. Literally. She decides this is the year she’ll ride on the hood of a shiny pickup truck in the annual parade, waving to the crowd and finally showing the town bully that she’s got what it takes to be the...
Author | Marie Lamba |
ISBN | 0375840915 |
After 15 years of being a good daughter and loyal friend, wouldn't you expect the people closest to you to believe you? To at least try to understand what you mean? Since my evil aunt moved in, everything has gone wrong.
My little sister thinks I'm a thief.
My best friend thinks I'm a jerk.
My...
Author | Liz Gallagher |
ISBN | 0375841520 |
Alice and Jewel have been best friends since grade school. Together, they don’t need anyone else, and together they blend into the background of high school. Invisible. To Alice, Jewel is the opposite of invisible. Jewel is her best friend who goes to Indie concerts and art shows with her. Jewel scoffs...
Author | Shari Maurer |
ISBN | 1934813362 |
Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, popular varisty soccer star Emmi comes down with an ordinary virus. But when she doesnt bounce back as always, she gets the worst possible newsshes had endocarditis thats destroyed her heart, putting her into congestive heart failure. This formerly energetic...
Author | Allan Stratton |
ISBN | 1550376640 |
A gripping story about the dark side of a first love.
Awards for the previous edition:
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
American Library Association Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
American Library Association Popular Paperbacks for...
Author | Susan Vaught |
ISBN | 1599901617 |
Chan Shealy's got most things going right in her life—straight A's, a shot at the regional majorette championships in baton twirling, and the best best friend a girl could wish for. But after the football quarterback spreads a vicious lie about her, and the whole school decides she's too trashy for...
Author | Melody Carlson |
ISBN | 0800732596 |
All Elise wants is to have her first kiss before she turns sixteen. Is that so bad? But when a friend's poor advice and the powers of electronic technology combine, Elise heads down a dangerous road. She is accused of "sexting" and gets kicked out of school. But is she really the one to blame?
This...
Author | Mark Fink |
ISBN | 1934813125 |
Andy Crenshaw’s summer just went into the toilet. His father got a new job and cancelled their dream vacation to Hawaii. Andy and his older brother, Brad, are shipped off to a farm in Wisconsin to stay with an Aunt and Uncle they hardly know. Brad has little use for Andy, except to torment him.
What...
The Fortune of Carmen Navarro
Author | Jen Bryant |
ISBN | 0375857591 |
Carmen Navarro rings up customers at the Quikmart, bored to tears. It’s a job, and she needs it. But Carmen’s true love is music: she dropped out of high school to sing with the Gypsy Lovers and land a recording contract, someday.
Just a few miles away, Ryan Sweeney hunches over his books,...