Jean and Johnny
10 best books like Jean and Johnny (Beverly Cleary): Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women, Queen of the Sea, Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, Deenie, Love Is One of the Choices, Taking Sides, Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood, The Truth About Stacey, Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You, To All My Fans, with Love, from Sylvie
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women
| Author | Rey Terciero |
| ISBN | 0316522864 |
Little Women with a twist: four sisters from a blended family experience the challenges and triumphs of life in NYC in this beautiful full-color graphic novel perfect for fans of Roller Girl and Smile.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: with their father serving in the...
| Author | Dylan Meconis |
| ISBN | 1536204986 |
Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary.
When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the...
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0689840896 |
It's 1947, and Sally J. Freedman is full of wild ideas. She's got her eye on handsome Peter Horstein, the Latin lover of her dreams . . . on old Mr. Zavodsky, who looks suspiciously like Hitler in disguise . . . and on her father, who Sally misses terribly. There are so many things to worry and wonder about--but...
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0689866100 |
When Deenie finds out that she has scoliosis, she’s scared. When she sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream.
But the words won't come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her neck to her hips. For four years—or...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0449702731 |
WHEN YOU'RE NEITHER A GIRL NOR A WOMAN...
Maggie and Caroline are both seniors in high school and suddenly everything that seemed simple has become complicated. Thinking about sex, wondering about college, planning for careers -- there are so many choices.
Maggie is brilliant and very...
Nell knows other kids her age whose parents are divorced, but they all live with their mothers. She wonders what living with Dad will be like, even though she's always felt closer to her father. But is it right to love one parent more than another?
There are other adjustments Nell has to make...like...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0553267221 |
Dear Mom and Dad, I'll Stay!
For thirteen-year-old Melanie Kessler, going to overnight camp was no way to spend a summer vacation. Right from the start, Melanie knew there was going to be trouble. Getting stuck with the six-year-old Tadpoles in the beginners' swim class was downright embarrassing....
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590251589 |
The truth about Stacey is that she has diabetes. Nobody knows... except her friends in the Baby-sitters Club.
But even they don't know the real truth about Stacey. Stacey's problem is her parents. They won't admit she has the disease, and they drag her to practically every doctor in America!
Seeing...
| Author | Barthe DeClements |
| ISBN | 0140371303 |
Helen Nichols has a reputation for being one of the best pitchers, and worst readers, in the sixth grade. She's also known as one of the biggest troublemakers in school. At the start of the year, she's assigned to the classroom of Mrs.Lobb--"Blob" to those who know her--a teacher with very little tolerance...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0671637630 |
Sylvie isn't your average girl. When she dresses up she looks eighteen, and she's spent the last three years in foster care plotting her escape to Hollywood. But as Sylvie quickly learns on the road, zigzagging across the Midwest in a stranger's two-tone blue Pontiac, life isn't like the movies. Left...
Just as Long as We're Together
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0330398040 |
I'm mad as hell that Goodreads doesn't have the cover of the version that I read, because I liked that cover a LOT. It's the one that has Stephanie, Rachel and Alison in someone's room (Rachel's?) and they are laughing and someone's holding up one of the purple t-shirt that say "FRIENDS" in yellow letters....
Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0330398067 |
You know, sometimes I am very embarrassed by the quantity of teen fiction I still enjoy, but I'm not by this one. I really do think this is Blume's most underappreciated, if not because it strikes a real chord with me. When I first read this book, I wanted to be Rachel Robinson. I wanted to be in super advanced...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0380007916 |
This book tells the story of Brett, an eleven-year-old girl with a feisty unwed-and-single-by-choice mother who's brought her up on all varieties of granola liberal hogwash. The Wolf Man is her mother's new beau. He has a wolfhound, a pock-marked face and a great red beard. A pleasurable aspect of this...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0449702367 |
Omg, if only life was a easy as a sheepskin coat and as carefree as a 18 year old behind swaggering in the air. Klein's protagist Jody is probably the most amazing YA protag. She's cheeky, slutty, nerdy, bossy and despite being so beyond her years she is still so teendreamqueen. The book is supposedly a look...
| Author | Emily R. Transue |
| ISBN | 0312372787 |
Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice. As she strives to help her patients face a range of challenges from the humorous to the profoundly devastating she learns that while medical school...
| Author | Ruth Doan MacDougall |
| ISBN | 0966335201 |
First published in 1973 and 1974 by Putnam and Bantam, The
Cheerleader was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century-Fox, made into an NBC sitcom pilot, and became a best-seller beloved by generations of readers.
p/pThe reprint of this classic coming-of-age novel...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0316153540 |
I read this book in middle school, and I found it again at St. Vincent De Paul. Loved it! Laura feels that she's ordinary. She gets straight As in school, but feels that isn't enough. Her sister, Jill, bowls and has been in every high school play. Brother Douglas is on the debate team and plays piano. Dennis,...
| Author | Sanjay Patel |
| ISBN | 1452103623 |
The bold, bright colors of India leap right off the page in this fresh and funny picture book retelling (with a twist) of how Ganesha came to help write the epic poem of Hindu literature, the Mahabharata. Ganesha is just like any other kid, except that he has the head of an elephant and rides around on a magical...
The Brontës Went to Woolworths
| Author | Rachel Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1608190536 |
'How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters'; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of The Brontës Went to Woolworths, one of three sisters.
London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable...
The Secret of Red Gate Farm
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 1557091609 |
I don’t remember this one from my childhood, but I’m sure I must have read it. As an adult it is rather absurd, but as a kid looking for adventures, I’m sure it was exciting and suspenseful.
As an adult it is always easy to pick out features of children’s mystery books that help give away...
