Mel
10 best books like Mel (Liz Berry): The Changeover, Cat Running, Remember Me to Harold Square, Room 13, The Cats of Seroster, Uncle Vampire, Jumping the Nail, Midnight Hour Encores, What Kind of Love?: The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager, Weeping Willow
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140365990 |
Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy.
The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn’t the first time she’d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440411521 |
I picked this book up at the Goodwill, not really knowing what it was about other than running, which I have an interest in. Surprisingly, it was about the Dust Bowl era, my current topic of particular interest! Therefore, I may have liked it more than I would have otherwise. But all in all, it was a very good...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116941 |
This summer could be a disaster. Kendra's parents have invited Frank, a 15-year-old she's never met, to stay with them. And they've planned a goofy scavenger hunt for the kids, including Kendra's bratty younger brother. They have to race all around New York City and visit places like the Empire State...
| Author | Robert Swindells |
| ISBN | 0435124994 |
Somebody was in there. Somebody—or something...
There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room 12. And something...
| Author | Robert Westall |
| ISBN | 0330292390 |
This is one of those few childhood favourites that I don't seem to share with many people - but what's not to like about a historical fantasy with telepathic cats set in southern France?
Englishman Cam of Cambridge is on the move again after his clever thinking gets him accused of witchcraft....
| Author | Cynthia D. Grant |
| ISBN | 0679867260 |
I'm really surprised the summary at the top of Goodreads lays it all about the sexual abuse...I'm sure the metaphoric descriptions throughout the book would be obvious to an adult, but for me, a sheltered 11 year old reading it in 1995, it was a HUGE plot twist (but not the only plot twist) when it was finally...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152413588 |
At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt-leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives. “It’s Bunting’s acknowledgment of the allure of...
| Author | Bruce Brooks |
| ISBN | 0064470210 |
On the Road
Sibilance T. Spooner thinks she's one of the world's more promising cellists. The world thinks so too. Given up by her mother on the day she was born, she believes she has almost raised herself--with just a bit of guidance from her unconventional father, Taxi. When Sib finally asks...
| Author | Sheila Cole |
| ISBN | 0380725754 |
In a flash, Valerie's world comes tumbling down. Talented pretty and popular. She was enjoying life and planing her future. She and Peter, the love of her life, were sharing their dreams. Now she and Peter share a problem...
Except it turns out to be Val's problem. Peter says he loves her, but...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0374482802 |
The only thing that bothers me about this book is the summery given on the back. I went so far that I put a sticker on the back of my copy, so when I lend it to friends they can read it without bias.
I personally think this book is NOT about a girl being raped by her stepfather. Of course that happens, too, but...
| Author | Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN | 0380791358 |
What is the sinister mystery of Chateau Bois Serpe? Roger, his parents, and twin sisters arrive at this crumbling ruin in the wilds of France, anticipating a holiday that's "different." And so it proves, but not as they'd hoped. The owner, the strange daughter Mesuline, whom Roger first meets tending...
| Author | Peni R. Griffin |
| ISBN | 0780748204 |
The two of them live in the same town--Amber in 1991, and Ada in 1891--and they both have real problems. Amber's parents are getting divorced, and she seems to be the last to know. Ada's father doesn't think women have minds of their own. So the two troubled girls hit on the same solution: they each go to the...
| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0064470350 |
Erick knows the family code: "Family is first. Toe the line. Fit in." At Seaville High his life is tame, predictable - hanging out with his girlfriend, Dill, and his pal Jack. Then Erick falls in love with Nicki Marr. Nicki's sort of scary. She's 17 going on 25. Every word she says, every move she makes, seems...
| Author | Bianca Pitzorno |
| ISBN | 8804445343 |
Le lunghe estate in un paesino di montagna sono, per tre amiche "cittadine, un'occasione per ritrovarsi e godere dei tranquilli passatempi di sempre. Ma ecco che arriva, a sconvolgere le loro giornate, la troupe televisiva di un popolarissima sceneggiato, la cui interprete è una famosa diva adolescente:...
| Author | Tim Wynne-Jones |
| ISBN | 0888996373 |
14-year-old Burl Crow has a father who is violent. His mother struggles with mental illness. When he follows his father to his secret fishing spot he learns that his father is having an affair. Burl's cover is blown and his father beats him. As his father strikes blow after blow, a helicopter flies overhead,...
| Author | Dahlia Kosinski |
| ISBN | 0553566709 |
Melanie Merrill knows trouble when she sees it. So when rule breaker Shane Conner storms through Knox High, Melanie runs the other way -- fast.
Then a prank gone wrong forces Shane to work off the damage at Melanie's house. Now she can't escape his defiant green eyes -- not at school ... not at home....
| Author | Tim Winton |
| ISBN | 0330340689 |
I really enjoyed the characterization on Egg. I thought the way that Lockie's parents handled his depression and teenaged sulking were funny. There's a lot of funny with this book. I also enjoyed that it didn't wrap up in a perfectly happy ending.
I read the book first. Now I know there was a book...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0805063161 |
"Out at the city limits there's this sign that says WELCOME TO CLAYPITTS, PEARL OF THE PRAIRIE, and if you'd believe that, you'd believe anything."
Sixteen-year-old Carol Patterson is a girl in the middle: in the middle of her sisters, in the middle of her adolescence, in the middle of her family's...
| Author | Elizabeth Bernard |
| ISBN | 0553566628 |
Mom's need not worry at all! Amazing for tweens & teens, no sex, no talk of sex. Not even sexual innuendos, (Despite maybe some of the covers and titles LOL) just kissing! First kiss/first love, romantic, creative, clever, funny! I would highly recommend these "love stories" books written by different...
| Author | Catherine Clark |
| ISBN | 0553566644 |
Story time
Hace más de 3 años, una amiga me pasó un pdf de un libro que -según ella- era muy bueno. En ese momento no me llamó la atención y simplemente lo guardé...tan bien guardado que permaneció oculto hasta hoy que decidí limpiar archivos inútiles y lo encontré, y estuvo a punto...
| Author | Bjarne Reuter |
| ISBN | 8700096660 |
I Bjarne Reuters "7.a" følger vi en 7. klasse, som skal på hyttetur på et gammelt pensionat. I 7.a går der 11 elever og på turen er lærrne Gitte og Finn taget med. Gitte overnatter på pensionatet, hvor hun hurtigt bemærker noget besynderligt. En nat drømmer hun en besyndelig drøm, som giver...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0590442562 |
Christopher Pike excelled in entertaining and swiftly moving thrillers for older young adults who were a bit more worldly. In this early effort from 1986, an involving story-line emerges within a narrative with steady movement. Pike keeps us turning pages to discover not only what happened in the...
