Last Dance at the Frosty Queen
10 best books like Last Dance at the Frosty Queen (Richard Uhlig): Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, 7 Days at the Hot Corner, Beat the Band, Diamonds in the Shadow, They Came from Below, Carter's Big Break, Circle the Soul Softly, Almost Home, Full Service, Sign Language
On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own, Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems.
With photos and an extensive list of facts...
| 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 | Don Calame |
| ISBN | 0763646334 |
Get ready for riffs on hot girls, health class, and social hell! The outrageously funny boys from Swim the Fly return to rock their sophomore year.
In this hilarious sequel to Swim the Fly, told from Coop’s point of view, it’s the beginning of the school year, and the tenth-grade health class...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0385732619 |
THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake - mother, father, teenage son and daughter....
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| ISBN | 0765314231 |
Seventeen-year-old Emily and her best friend Reese can't wait for summer vacation on Cape Cod. Every year, it's the same thing: high hopes that they may finally hook up with some cool guys...and it never happens. But this year, they're sure it's going to be different. So it's totally amazing when out...
| Author | Brent Crawford |
| ISBN | 1423112431 |
After surviving freshman year (just barely), Carter is craving his summer break. Unfortunately, when he and his girlfriend, Abby, part ways, it looks as though summer just might break him. Things start to look up when he's unexpectedly cast in an independent film opposite the world's biggest tween...
| Author | Davida Wills Hurwin |
An elite school. Glamorous students who have fancy cars and mansions for homes (and all the haughty attitude to go with it). This is Katie O'Connor's fabulous new life since her family's recent move to Brentwood –– a perfect opportunity for a fresh start, at least in theory.
The only time...
| Author | Jessica Blank |
| ISBN | 1423106423 |
Why would anyone choose to live on the streets? There is Eeyore, just twelve years old when she runs away from her priveleged home, harboring a secret she's too ashamed to tell anyone. Rusty is a sensitive gay teen who winds up alone when his older boyfriend ditches him in Hollywood. Squid has gone through...
| Author | Will Weaver |
| ISBN | 0374324859 |
The times they are a-changin' . . .
The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family farm. You need to meet the public, she says, which is saying a lot for a woman deeply committed to the tightly knit religious community to which...
| Author | Amy Ackley |
| ISBN | 0670013188 |
Twelve-year-old Abby North's first hint that something is really wrong with her dad is how long it's taking him to recover from what she thought was routine surgery. Soon, the thing she calls "It" has a real name: cancer. Before, her biggest concerns were her annoying brother, the crush unaware of her...
| Author | Erin Vincent |
| ISBN | 0385733534 |
I'm going through a lot of grief and have been for a long time, but it has been heightened by the loss of a special, very dear, close friend 6 weeks ago. We shared an unique bond and I'm crushed by her loss.I don't know when I won't be crushed.Add that to the grief I've been living in for almost 2 years for the loss...
| Author | Mark Peter Hughes |
| ISBN | 0385733925 |
Poets. Geniuses. Revolutionaries.
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| Author | Susan Vaught |
| ISBN | 1599906406 |
Del's not a bad guy. He's just a misunderstood criminal.
Seventeen-year-old Del is a good kid, but one mimro mistake three years ago was all it took to turn him into a social outcast. Now, with a criminal record, the only job he can get is digging graves-not exactly your typical after-school gig....
My Boyfriends' Dogs: The Tales of Adam and Eve and Shirley
| Author | Dandi Daley Mackall |
| ISBN | 0525422188 |
If only boys were more like dogs.
On a stormy night in St. Louis, Bailey Daley finds refuge in an after-hours diner. Bailey, a girl with three dogs in tow, wearing a soaking-wet prom dress, obviously has a story to tell. See, she wants what every girl wants from her boyfriend: enthusiasm, loyalty,...
| Author | Adam Selzer |
| ISBN | 1481401025 |
A committed slacker enlists the help of his best friend (who may or may not be the devil) to get his act together in this novel filled with humor, awkwardness, and honesty, ideal for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Leon Harris isn’t exceptional and he isn’t popular. He’s the kind...
| Author | Lauren McLaughlin |
| ISBN | 0375851917 |
AS FAR AS anyone at her high school knows, Jill McTeague is an average smart girl trying to get her dream date to ask her to the prom.
What no one knows, except for Jill?s mom and dad, is that for the four days Jill is out of school each month, she is not Jill at all. She is Jack, a genuine boy?complete...
| Author | Amy Bryant |
| ISBN | 0060898046 |
If you're looking for Polly Clark, she'll be the girl wearing Doc Martens and a Bad Brains T-shirt at the punk show. She'll be (almost) losing her virginity to a high school dropout, accompanied by the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn." She'll be looking for her artistic soul while trying to solve...
None of the Regular Rules
Sometimes, a few dares can change lives…
The weekend before the start of senior year, Sophie Erickson and her best friends, Ella and Grace, discover a handwritten list of dares tucked away in the glove compartment of Sophie’s beat-up old Toyota. But this isn’t just any list; it’s a...
The Ballad of Tam Lin (Legends of Divine Feminine)
I forbid you maidens all
who wear gold in your hair
to travel to Carterhaugh
for young Tam Lin is there
Scotland, 1323
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| Author | Stephen Bush |
| ISBN | 1921879726 |
In 1973 James’s seventeen-year-old sister, Maria, disappeared while on her way home from school. Her disappearance not only shattered her family, it had strange, far-reaching repercussions for her ten-year-old brother. He was too young to fully understand what had happened but was left to cope...
Princeless, Vol. 6: Make Yourself Part 2
Mothers, Daughters, Dwarves, and Dragons collide in the epic conclusion to "Princeless: Make Yourself." Return to the snow covered mountains of The Rim for the epic conclusion of "Make Yourself," the biggest arc of Princeless yet! Will Bedelia's reunion with her mom be any of what she hoped for or will...
Just Your Average Princess
Jamie Edwards has loved everything about growing up on a pumpkin patch, but ever since her cousin Milan Woods arrived, things have really stunk. Jamie can’t imagine it was easy for Milan to leave her life back in Los Angeles and move to Average, Illinois, population one thousand. But it’s kind of...
In Vista Heights, the women of the neighborhood have started to look like their homes, varying shades of beige.
Lost in this world of suburbia, Marissa Lyons learns her high school nemesis has bought the house right across the street from her. Afraid that her arch enemy, Beatrice Munson, will...
| Author | Nancy Grossman |
| ISBN | 1423151534 |
A summer of firsts
Sixteen-year-old Eliza Miller has never made a phone call, never tried on a pair of jeans, never sat in a darkened theater waiting for a movie to start. She’s never even talked to someone her age who isn’t Amish, like her.
A summer of good-byes
When she...
| Author | Jodi Bullock |
| ISBN | 0615476031 |
When an injury tears her ballet dreams away from her, Brooke becomes withdrawn and depressed. She spends a great deal of time alone as she attempts to recalculate her life plan. It isn't until her unlikely friendship with quirky Miss Cee Cee that Brooke begins to realize that beneath the surface of dreams...
