Love Is One of the Choices
10 best books like Love Is One of the Choices (Norma Klein): Dandelion Wine, That Was Then, This Is Now, Fifteen, Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood, To All My Fans, with Love, from Sylvie, Reportage on Lovers: A Medley of Factual Romances, Happy or Tragical, Most of Which Made News, Sister of the Bride, The Cheerleader, Jean and Johnny, And This Is Laura
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0671037706 |
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in...
That Was Then, This Is Now
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0140389660 |
Does growing up have to mean growing apart?
Since childhood, Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers. Now things are changing. Bryon's growing up, spending a lot of time with girls, and thinking seriously about who he wants to be. Mark still just lives for the thrill of the moment. The two...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0380728044 |
It seems too good to be true. The most popular boy in school has asked Jane out -- and she's never even dated before. Stan is tall and good-looking, friendly and hard-working -- everything Jane ever dreamed of. But is she ready for this?
Suppose her parents won't let her go? What if she's nervous...
| 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 | 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...
| Author | Quijano de Manila |
| ISBN | 9712720381 |
Classic Oriental Love--as in the tale of a Japanese girl who asked her Filipino lover neither marriage nor even affection but simply the permission to serve him and slave for him until he should find himself a wife.
Modern Cosmopolitan Love--as in the glamorous affair between a young Filipino...
At first, Barbara isn't sure how she feels about her older sister getting married. Then, once the wedding planning goes into high gear, it becomes almost impossible for her not to imagine a wedding -- for herself! But as the big day approaches, family arguments abound and Barbara's fun-loving sister...
| 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 | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0060533013 |
First Date
Fifteen-year-old Jean is astonished when a handsome Johnny whirls her round the dance floor. She's never given much thought to boys before; now Johnny is all that's on her mind. Finally she finds the courage to invite him to a dance. But the excitement of a new dress and a scheme to take Johnny's...
| 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 | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0060532998 |
Shelley Latham can't wait to get to San Sebastian, where flowers bloom in November, oranges grow on the trees, and the sun shines almost every day. And once she's there, things get even better. In no time, she catches the attention of two boys: one, a good-looking basketball star, the other, an interesting,...
