It's Not the End of the World
9 best books like It's Not the End of the World (Judy Blume): Domestic Arrangements, Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?, Taking Terri Mueller, Seventeen and In-Between, I Never Loved Your Mind, Bummer Summer, Sister of the Bride, The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline, Lizzie McGuire: The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0449245209 |
I first read this book in the early 80s when I was a young teenager and I adored it then. It's about Tatiana, a 14-year-old New Yorker, who stars in her first movie and is navigating her blooming sexuality. I loved all of Norma Klein's books and so it was interesting for me to read Domestic Arrangements again...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0807218383 |
Lauren Allen's life is the pits. Bobby Taylor's just jilted her. Her ninth-grade teachers are demerit-crazy. And she has to share her bedroom with messy younger sister who wants to be a stand-up comic, while her older sister seems to get everything she wants. Between her parents, her two sisters, and...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380790041 |
For as long as I can remember, It's just been Daddy and me. I can't remember my mother. I was told she died in an accident when I was four, and that's all I know about her. I don't understand why there isn't even a picture of her. The other thing I don't understand is why we're always moving -- different towns...
| Author | Barthe DeClements |
| ISBN | 0140364757 |
For those of you who thought Twilight was the only book featuring a love triangle that takes place in Forks, Washington (sort of). Seriously, I read half of this loosely connected series when I was the original age of the protagonist (ten) and never quite caught up to the ones when she's a former fat kid....
At 17, Dewey Daniels is fed up with his boring high school and decides to drop out, taking a part-time job at Richmond Valley Hospital. one day he catches fellow dropout Yvette Goethals stealing hospital supplies, and it's lust at first sight. But Yvette and Dewey are like night and day: she's a vegetarian...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590413082 |
What a bummer!
Summer is supposed to be the best time of the year. But this summer looks like a total loss to Kammy Whitlock. First, her Dad gets married again. Then his new wife Kate moves in, and Kammy has to put up with her two children. They won't leave Kammy alone! Three-year-old Muffin flushes...
At first, Barbara isn't sure how she feels about her older sister getting married. Then, once the wedding planning goes into high gear, it becomes almost impossible for her not to imagine a wedding -- for herself! But as the big day approaches, family arguments abound and Barbara's fun-loving sister...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0395348293 |
At the same time Barbara Park was making a name for herself with juvenile humor novels in the 1980s, so was Lois Lowry. One might not think of her as a humorist, but Ms. Lowry could be almost as funny as Barbara Park. Caroline Tate, age eleven, is an apartment-dwelling girl of 1980s New York City. Her interest...
| Author | Alice Alfonsi |
| ISBN | 0786846461 |
Assigned to Lizzie McGuire as required reading during one of her school classes, The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club finally puts into print this "lost classic," for which Lizzie fans have been fruitlessly searching since they saw Lizzie reading it during the "Mom's Best Friend" episode on Disney Channel's...
