Just Another Hero
10 best books like Just Another Hero (Sharon M. Draper): Sweet, Hereafter, Crystal, 7 Days at the Hot Corner, Jumped, The Truth about Truman School, Returnable Girl, Broken China, Joseph, Messed Up, Ricochet
| Author | Angela Johnson |
| ISBN | 0689873859 |
Having read the other titles in the trilogy, I think Sweet, Hereafter is a deft closing. This final installment is about Sweet, a young girl we meet through Marley in Heaven. Sweet is odd; she wears knee high rain boots, isn’t obsessed with ipods or Facebook, drives a truck dubbed Alice and likes feeding...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0064473120 |
Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she's blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamorous career as a model in New York City. At first, modeling is exciting. But soon, her life becomes less and less about her, and more and more about her body. Crystal wonders if her new life is...
| 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 | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0060760915 |
The wrong angle Trina: "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. The boyed-up basketball girl barely moves. The others, her girls, step aside. It's okay if they don't speak. I know how it is. They can't all be Trina. Dominique: Some stupid little flit cuts right in between us and is like, "Hey." Like...
| Author | Dori Hillestad Butler |
| ISBN | 0807580953 |
The Truth about Truman School was a total surprise.
I bought the book at the school's Book Fair for two reasons. It was marked $2.50 (and well within my budget) and the back cover said that it was about teens who decide to tell the truth about life in middle school, not the expurgated lies adults...
| 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 | Lori Aurelia Williams |
| ISBN | 1416916180 |
I always did right by Amina even though it was sometimes major difficult to take care of a daughter that I loved with all my heart, but never wanted in the first place.
China Cup Cameron might miss school or fall asleep in class sometimes, but she's trying hard to be a good mother to Amina, her two-year-old...
| Author | Shelia P. Moses |
| ISBN | 1416917527 |
For Joseph Flood, life is tough. Tough because of Mama's addiction to drugs and alcohol. Tough because Daddy is away with the army fighting in Iraq. Tough because it looks like there's no way out once you're living in a homeless shelter in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood. And tough because Joseph...
| 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 | Chandra Sparks Splond |
Raised in a strict household, sixteen-year-old Courtland Murphy never had a date. But that was before the guy of her every dream—basketball star Allen Benson—asked her out. She's gone from never-been-kissed to dating the hottest guy in school. And now her new boyfriend is pressuring her to prove...
| Author | Celeste O. Norfleet |
How did Kenisha Lewis's life go from near perfect to sheer chaos in just a few months? Coping with family tragedy is tough enough without getting kicked out of private school and sent to the local public school, where she's forced to make some major adjustments. New friends (and enemies), new clothes,...
| Author | A.J. Byrd |
| ISBN | 0373830904 |
Best Friends Forever—that's Anjenai, Kierra and Tyler. Growing up together in an Atlanta housing project, the girls have always been there for each other. But high school is a whole new world, and the drama is just beginning….
Anjenai, Kierra and Tyler believe their bond is strong enough...
| Author | Dona Sarkar |
| ISBN | 0373830882 |
The Culture Club
First, Issa Mazumder's nerdy boyfriend dumps her for popular Latina princess Cat Morena—as if Cat even likes him. She just hates Issa. And for good reason: Issa finds out that her mother not only has been dating Cat's dad, but is going to marry him. That means they're moving...
| Author | Paul Langan |
| ISBN | 1591940664 |
The book, The Fallen by Paul Langen is worth reading. The situation the Martin went through had a happy ending. He was brave because he never backed down from Frankie, even though he was coming to kill him. It was intense because when they broke into his house, it was all dark and he was hiding. He saw his buddy...
| Author | Monica McKayhan |
| ISBN | 0373831412 |
Indigo Summer and her best friend, Jade, are at the top of their game. They're the most popular girls at school, the best dancers on the high-school squad, and now one of them is going to be team captain. Indigo just never expected it to be Jade. For the first time in forever, Indigo is jealous of her best friend,...
| Author | Earl Sewell |
| ISBN | 0373831161 |
Whoever said "family comes first" never met Keysha's mom, Justine. Fresh out of jail, Justine wants to reconnect with her daughter—despite abandoning her to a father she hardly knew. Keysha is sure Justine's troubled past is going to play havoc with her own present and future. To add more drama to...
| Author | Phillip Thomas Duck |
| ISBN | 0373831420 |
College is a big adjustment — but not if you're Kenya Posey. Even at a Southern school far from her Jersey turf, she's the one the girls envy and the boys want. Kenya's the star of a hot singing/dancing troupe, her high-school BFF Lark is on campus — could things get any better?
For Lark, the answer...
Jayd Jackson's about to take the most important test of her life. . .
With the Advanced Placement exams coming up, Jayd can't afford any distractions. Enter Rah's baby mama, the master of stirring up trouble. Despite her best intentions, Jayd gets entangled in the drama and fails her pre-test...
