Katarina
10 best books like Katarina (Kathryn Winter): Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You, Shouting at the Rain, The Unusual Suspects, The Mortification of Fovea Munson, Braced, In My Enemy's House, Claudia and Mean Janine, Peeling the Onion, Now Is the Time for Running, A Summer to Die
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You
| Author | Hanna Jansen |
| ISBN | 1575059274 |
Before that fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She bickered with her little sister, went to school, teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of violence upon the Tutsi ethnic group. Jeanne's family,...
Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful...
| Author | Michael Buckley |
| ISBN | 0810993236 |
Needing a short filler novel and wanting something lighter, I turned back to Michael Buckley and his Sisters Grimm collection. The stories pull on some of the characters that have emerged in the Grimm fairytales and place two modern sisters in the middle of the narrative, tasked with uncovering various...
Fovea Munson is nobody's Igor. True, her parents own a cadaver lab where they perform surgeries on dead bodies. And yes, that makes her gross by association, at least according to everyone in seventh grade. And sure, Fovea's stuck working at the lab now that her summer camp plans have fallen through....
| Author | Alyson Gerber |
| ISBN | 0545902142 |
Rachel Brooks is excited for the new school year. She's finally earned a place as a forward on her soccer team. Her best friends make everything fun. And she really likes Tate, and she's pretty sure he likes her back. After one last appointment with her scoliosis doctor, this will be her best year yet.
Then...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 0689824009 |
""They won't kill everyone in the ghetto right away,"" he continues, his voice matter-of-fact. ""They still need workers. But not for long. After all, they have us Poles to work for them, don't they?"" He paused then, and looked at me. It was frozen like Polish winter. It was cold right through into my...
| Author | Raina Telgemeier |
| ISBN | 0439885175 |
Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. Claudia, who pays more attention to her art than her grades, feels she can't compete with her perfect sister. Janine studies nonstop, makes straight As, and even takes college-level courses. The girls are nothing alike, and...
| Author | Wendy Orr |
| ISBN | 0440227739 |
The car accident changed everything. Before, Anna knew who she was and what she looked like. But now she's a stranger to her family, her friends, and herself. She is no longer the pretty, popular girl who loves karate. Her body now betrays her, and she knows it will never be the same. All the layers that made...
| Author | Michael Williams |
| ISBN | 0316077909 |
Just down the road from their families, Deo and his friends play soccer in the dusty fields of Zimbabwe, cheered on by Deo's older brother, Innocent. It is a day like any other . . . until the soldiers arrive and Deo and Innocent are forced to run for their lives, fleeing the wreckage of their village for the...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440219175 |
I haven't read this book since I was eleven or twelve, but I bought a used copy because I have such extremely fond memories of it. My copy has new cover art, so I got all nostalgic seeing the thumbnail of the old cover here.
It's funny how much of this book I remembered vividly and how much I'd forgotten...
| Author | Anne Isaacs |
| ISBN | 0590603647 |
A searing Holocaust novel based on a true story.
Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blankets for the German Army. As Eva struggles...
1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed...
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0823420639 |
After his best friend is murdered, seventeen-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime; but he doesn't tell anyone. This novel explores the darker side of sibling rivalry.
For Ages 12 and up
An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers
An...
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 1538733048 |
Sometimes it only takes a few minutes for the perfect murder to take place. Here are two fast-paced thrillers that will have you reading for just a minute longer.
13-MINUTE MURDER: He can kill anybody in just minutes–from the first approach to the clean escape. His skills have served him well,...
| Author | Nancy Farmer |
| ISBN | 1442482540 |
The new book continues the story of Matt, the boy who was cloned from evil drug lord El Patrón in The House of the Scorpion. Now 14 years old, Matt rules his own country, the Land of Opium, the only thriving place in a world ravaged by ecological disaster. Though he knows that the cure for ending the suffering...
