Me and the Blondes:
10 best books like Me and the Blondes: (Teresa Toten): Haunted, Outside Beauty, Mistik Lake, The Sweet Life of Stella Madison, An Earthly Knight, Kiss in the Dark, Donorboy, The Lightkeeper's Daughter, See What I See, The Secret Rites of Social Butterflies
| Author | Barbara Haworth-Attard |
| ISBN | 0002008211 |
Dee is feeding the chickens the morning that bones are discovered on the mountain. Something doesn't feel right—and her feeling is confirmed when local police show her a ring that they found with the bones, a ring belonging to Mary Ann Simpson, who disappeared four years earlier. Other girls, Dee...
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 0689865759 |
"My mother had four daughters by four different men." There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: She's a sexpot. Helen Kimura collects men (and loans, spending money, and gifts of all kinds) from all over the country. Sure, she's not your typical role model, but she's also...
| Author | Martha Brooks |
| ISBN | 0374349851 |
Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Why doesn't her great-aunt Gloria visit anymore? Why does her mother, Sally, drink so much? Sally's tragic car accident on a frozen lake when she was sixteen seems to have cast a spell over her life that no one can break. Odella tries to hold her...
The Sweet Life of Stella Madison
| Author | Lara Deloza |
| ISBN | 0385731469 |
It's not easy being the daughter of a famous chef and a resteraunt owner when your idea of a great meal is the kind that's served through via a drive-through window. When Stella Madison's food-loving parents help her land a summer job at the local newspaper, there’s only one catch: she’s expected...
| Author | Janet McNaughton |
| ISBN | 0060089946 |
A cloud has descended over the household of Lady Jeanette Avenel.
The year is 1162. Sixteen-year-old Jenny has always enjoyed her freedom as second daughter of a Norman nobleman in Teviotdale, Scotland. But when Jenny's sister, Isabel, disgraces the family by running away with a dangerous...
| Author | Lauren Henderson |
| ISBN | 0385737777 |
With Dan McAndrews's murder finally behind her, Scarlett has high hopes for a fresh start at Wakefield Hall Collegiate, the elite English boarding school her grandmother runs. Unfortunately, those hopes are dashed when her nemesis, the infamous Plum Saybourne, is transferred to the school. Plum...
| Author | Brendan Halpin |
| ISBN | 1400062772 |
Rosalind had two mommies. Now, thanks to a tragic accident involving foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm donor responsible for half her DNA (and nothing else), is taking custody. Rosalind finds herself adjusting to a new life that seems both hateful and surreal–she’s an orphan with a...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0385729251 |
Three years have passed since Squid McCrae last saw her parents and the remote island where she grew up. She returns now at seventeen, a young woman with a daughter in tow. The visit, she knows, will be rough. Lizzie Island- paradise to some, a stifling prison to others- brings an onslaught of memories....
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0061255459 |
Kate Tapert sees her life in paintings. She makes sense of the world around her by relating it to what she adores—art. Armed with a suitcase, some canvases, and a scholarship to art school in Detroit, Kate is ready to leave home and fully immerse herself in painting. Sounds like heaven. All Kate needs...
The Secret Rites of Social Butterflies
| Author | Lizabeth Zindel |
| ISBN | 0670062170 |
When does truth become gossip?
Maggie's parents have just split up, and she's moved from New Jersey to New York City with her mom. Desperate to make new friends and to distract herself from troubles at home, she falls in with a group of social butterflies at the ritzy private school she now attends....
| Author | Tish Cohen |
| ISBN | 1606840339 |
Sara Black is tiptoeing across a fraying tightrope.
As the new eleventh grader at Anton High–the most elite public school in the country–she sticks out like an old VW bus in a parking lot full of shiny BMWs. But being the new kid also brings a certain advantageous anonymity.
In Anton...
| Author | William Bell |
| ISBN | 0385662467 |
Lee wants to be a Tarantula – a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Lee’s father sends him to live with his aunt in New Toronto.
Lee feels more lost than ever. His mother’s...
| Author | Shelley Hrdlitschka |
| ISBN | 1551432102 |
Kia is sixteen and pregnant. Her world crumbles as she attempts to come to terms with the life growing inside her and what she must do. Initially convinced that abortion is her only option, Kia comes to understand that for her, the answers are not always black and white. As the pregnancy progresses, Kia...
| Author | Don Aker |
| ISBN | 0006392865 |
3.5 stars rated up
When I saw this book in my recommendations, the synopsis immediately grabbed me. I quickly looked it up on the kobo website to see if the price of the ebook and when I found out that it was less than $5 I purchased it right away.
Goodreads synopsis: Reef is a troubled sixteen-year-old,...
| Author | Susan Juby |
| ISBN | 0060515481 |
4.5 stars
Alice continues her coming of age story when she is entered into the Miss Smithers pageant as Miss Rod and Gun Club (ironic since her parents are vegetarians who oppose hunting, slaughterhouses, etc) in an even funnier book than the first in this trilogy: I can see why this one won an award...
| 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 | Ting-xing Ye |
| ISBN | 0770429211 |
A dramatic and moving YA novel by Ting-xing Ye, the internationally acclaimed author of A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, working with her husband, William Bell, author of the award-winning novels for young adults Forbidden City, Zack, and Stones.
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Throwaway Daughter tells the dramatic and moving...
| Author | Carrie Mac |
| ISBN | 0143180916 |
Fifteen-year-old Junie is barely coping. Her mother has started sleeping in the chair in front of the TV, and the house is so packed with junk, newspapers, cupboard organizers and other helpful items from the Shopping Channel that she can barely get in the front door. Her father is no help, since he's...
The Queen of Second Place (The Queen Companion Novels Book 1)
| Author | Laura Peyton Roberts |
“Suspenseful and often witty, this book makes losing by a hair seem almost fun.” —Publishers Weekly
Cassie Howard truly believes that every human being on earth is born with one special talent. Unfortunately, hers is taking second place. No matter how hard she tries, she’s always...
The Art of Getting Stared At
After a school video she produced goes viral, sixteen-year-old Sloane Kendrick is given a chance at a film school scholarship. She has less than two weeks to produce a second video, and she’s determined to do it. Unfortunately, she must work with Isaac Alexander, an irresponsible charmer with whom...
| Author | Eric Walters |
| ISBN | 0670063665 |
In order to pass social studies, fifteen-year-old Ian must complete community volunteer service. Choosing to work at "The Club” sounds like fun, until he arrives at what turns out to be a soup kitchen for the homeless in an unsafe part of the city. After a near-mugging, from which he's saved by a fierce,...
| Author | Lisa Daily |
| ISBN | 1595143807 |
What's it like to be the most beautiful girl in the world?
Molly desperately wants to be beautiful. And that's what she tells Dharma, the mysterious portrait artist who sketches her face at the town fair just minutes after she's humiliated in front of Hudson, the guy of her dreams. When Molly...
| Author | Beverley Brenna |
| ISBN | 0889953309 |
Taylor Jane Simon is 18 years old and spending the summer with her mother in Prince Albert National Park. The holiday has been planned so Taylor's mother can spend time with her latest boyfriend, Danny, and work in the pizza restaurant near the park that Danny runs. Taylor would just as soon stay at home...
| Author | Gail Gallant |
| ISBN | 0385679629 |
The last time seventeen-year-old Amelia Mackenzie saw her best friend Matthew alive, he broke her heart. When he is found the next day in an abandoned barn at the edge of town, an apparent suicide, Amelia's whole world comes crashing down.
And then she sees him again. Because Amelia has a secret...
Fragile Bones: Harrison & Anna
| Author | Lorna Schultz Nicholson |
| ISBN | 0993935109 |
Meet Harrison and Anna.
One is a fifteen-year-old boy with an uncanny ability to recite every bone in the skeletal system whenever he gets anxious ― and that happens a lot. The meaning of “appropriate behaviour” mystifies him: he doesn’t understand most people and they certainly...
