Jump the Cracks
10 best books like Jump the Cracks (Stacy DeKeyser): Jane in Bloom, Gemma, Boost, Soccerland, Silhouetted by the Blue, All of the Above, The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black, Invisible Lines, Bull Rider, Double Eagle
| Author | Deborah Lytton |
| ISBN | 0525420789 |
Jane?s big sister, Lizzie, has always been the center of attention. No one ever pays attention to boring, plain Jane. But when Jane?s twelfth birthday marks the beginning of Lizzie?s fi nal descent into a fatal eating disorder, Jane discovers that the only thing harder than living in her big sister?s...
| Author | Meg Tilly |
| ISBN | 0929636619 |
After Hazen Wood kidnaps 12 year-old Gemma Sullivan, the two embark upon a cross-country journey that tests the limits of Gemma's endurance. In graphic scenes of physical and sexual violence, Hazen tries to destroy the young girl's will.
It is only Gemma's childlike resilience and fertile imagination...
| Author | Kathy MacKel |
| ISBN | 0803732406 |
Thirteen-year-old Savvy is six two and full of raw basketball talent; her three-point shot is deadly. But she's also skinny and gets pushed around on the court. Her older sister, Callie, is a freshman on varsity cheerleading, but she's not quite light enough to be a flier - her coveted position. Both...
| Author | Beth Choat |
| ISBN | 0761457240 |
"One day I’m going to play for the U.S. Women’s National Team."
That’s what Flora Dupre promised her mom before she died of cancer. Flora and her mom had created a place called Soccerland, an escape world in which they’d ignore the beeping cancer machines and just talk soccer. And now...
| Author | Traci L. Jones |
| ISBN | 0374369143 |
Seventh-grader Serena Shaw is trying to keep up at school while rehearsing for the lead role in the spring musical and dealing with a father so "blue" he is nearly catatonic. With the aid of a not-so-secret admirer as well as a growing sense of self-confidence, she faces the challenges of caring for herself...
Based on a true story, All of the Above is the delightful and suspenseful story of four inner city students and their quest to build the world's largest tetrahedron. Weaving together the different personal stories of the kids, their teacher, and the community that surrounds them, award-winning author...
| Author | Eden Unger Bowditch |
| ISBN | 1610880021 |
-In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from London, England; nine-year-old Wallace Banneker...
If there’s one thing I’m good at it’s making people laugh because when I’m standing up I’m what you call a stand-up comedian, and when I’m sitting down, I’m just plain funny.
Trevor is just plain funny, and he’s lucky he is. Because this year he needs a sense of humor. Moving...
| Author | Suzanne Morgan Williams |
| ISBN | 1416961305 |
All it takes is eight seconds....
Cam O'Mara, grandson and younger brother of bull- riding champions, is not interested in partaking in the family sport. Cam is a skateboarder, and perfecting his tricks -- frontside flips, 360s -- means everything until his older brother, Ben, comes home...
| Author | Sneed B. Collard III |
The year is 1862. The Skink, a Confederate ship, is attacked by Union forces and sinks off the Alabama coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Although the ship was rumored to be carrying newly minted gold coins, no trace of the wreck and not even a single piece of Confederate gold is ever found. Fast forward to 1973....
| Author | Terri Fields |
| ISBN | 1596433493 |
WHAT IF YOUR FATHER ISN'T WHO YOU THOUGHT HE WAS?
"I turn up the volume as a woman at a news desk announces, 'This just in…the alleged DB25 monster has been arrested.' Good. The camera switches from the anchor to a mug shot…and it is my face--or at least my face as it will look thirty years from...
| Author | Barbara Shoup |
| ISBN | 0738712272 |
With high school mercifully drawing to a close, Emma's only question is, "What next? And can it please be completely unlike what happened before?" Then one lucky little lotto ticket seems to give the answer-or does it? Everything You Want is a story about what happens to an average family when money is...
| Author | Norah McClintock |
| ISBN | 1554691524 |
I lay on the gritty wooden floor of the filthy shack, frozen with terror. For weeks I had been hearing about the two girls who had disappeared, but I had never in a million years thought that something like that was going to happen to me.
But here I was, tied up, groggy, panic-stricken-and waiting....
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0385734484 |
Choices do matter and forgiveness is possible.
Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened—to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to his baby brother, Tris. What made it worse...
| Author | Walter Sorrells |
| ISBN | 0525476970 |
Walter Sorrells is a name to remember if you like YA thrillers that have a different edge than most. A domestic drama, multilayered crime mystery, and more, The Silent Room is an arsenal of psychological triggers set to fire at strategic points in the narrative, just when you think you're getting a read...
| Author | Michael P. Spradlin |
| ISBN | 0399247637 |
1191 A.D. The orphan Tristan has joined the Knights Templar as a squire, journeying with Richard the Lionheart on his crusade to free the Holy Land from the Saracens. As defeat looms near, Tristan is entrusted with the most sacred of Christian relics, the Holy Grail. He must return it safely to Britain,...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593077440 |
The bewildered and near-mad Casca, former captain of the Band of the Hawk -- and former lover of Guts, the Black Swordsman -- has been adopted by Midland's pagan cults as a witch, due to her demonic Mark of Sacrifice. But the Holy Iron Chain Knights campaign to rid the kingdom of heretics by any means necessary...
Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson, Volume 1
| Author | Akira Hiramoto |
| ISBN | 0345499263 |
CROSS ROAD BLUES
Legend has it that if you take your guitar and stand at a crossroads at the witching hour, the devil will appear. He’ll grab your instrument, play a song, and hand it back to you. You’ll walk away an expert bluesman, but you’ll have to pay the price: your immortal soul.
The...
| Author | Lynn Okamoto |
| ISBN | 4088767640 |
I think this series is the poster child for 'fantastic idea, horrible execution'. I've been sitting here thinking of all the ways this has gone wrong, and all of the ways this series could have been truly epic...and all of it falls right back onto the author and his style. There is just so much that could...
