Mom, the Wolf Man, and Me
10 best books like Mom, the Wolf Man, and Me (Norma Klein): Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, Saturday, the Twelfth of October, Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?, The Secret Language, The Grounding of Group 6, Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, Confessions of a Teenage Baboon, Arabel's Raven, Dorrie and the Blue Witch, The Language of Goldfish
| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0061139890 |
M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship
It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0440995922 |
This was one of my favorite books as a kid. Was thrilled to discover it is still a good book when I read it as an adult. Zan, the protagonist, is transported back in time to a (presumed) prehistoric tribe. Zan's time with these people is a well written comming of age story. We never do learn who exactly the tribe...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0807218383 |
Lauren Allen's life is the pits. Bobby Taylor's just jilted her. Her ninth-grade teachers are demerit-crazy. And she has to share her bedroom with messy younger sister who wants to be a stand-up comic, while her older sister seems to get everything she wants. Between her parents, her two sisters, and...
| Author | Ursula Nordstrom |
| ISBN | 0064400220 |
At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...
YA was hardcore in 1983, yo. I bought my original copy of The Grounding of Group Six at Barnes and Noble in Boston when I was 10 – the huge one on Boylston that looked like a half-melted White House, and I’m not going to lie to you: I bought it because of the cover.
In fact, before I even get into the...
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341463 |
Henry Reed has another sure-fire money-making plan--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own
An intelligent person like Henry should have no problem riding herd on the town's toddlers. But Henry's never tangled with such monsters as daredevil Danny, whose stunts keep Henry...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0553118293 |
I'm re-reading all my tattered Paul Zindel YA paperbacks, starting with this one. Man, they are dark. Paul Zindel was my favorite writer as a young tween. He wrote about weird, ugly, awkward, fucked-up, lonely working class kids in bad situations, with lots of gritty detail. This is the saddest of them...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0152060944 |
Originally published in Britain under the title Tales of Arabel's Raven, this book includes three humorous stories that introduce young Arabel Jones and her raven companion, Mortimer.
In Arabel's Raven, a taxi-driver named Ebenezer Jones rescues a raven that he sees run down by two thieves...
| Author | Patricia Coombs |
| ISBN | 0440422108 |
What a beautiful book! Reading this book brought back wonderful memories of reading this as a child. I love the illustrations, absolutely beautiful, I really like the black, white and blue used in this one and all the details in the pictures. I'm very impressed this author/illustrator was equally as...
Carrie Stokes doesn’t like change. After she moves to a new place and has to adjust to a new school, new people in her life, and the challenges of growing up she loses it. Something within her just can’t take it anymore and she starts blacking out, passing out, wandering for hours with no idea of where...
Dear Lovey Hart,
I am desperate. I love a man old enough to be my father. I worship him from afar. Do you think there is any hope for a relationship between us?
G.C.
Dear G.C.,
Not unless he wants to adopt you.
Chip is cute. He is also the editor of the high school newspaper. So...
| Author | Frank Bonham |
| ISBN | 0590338471 |
Brian's sister and mother vanished without a trace over a year ago. It was not uncommon. People were disappearing everywhere. To Brian, life had become a frightening madness. He knows that in another two years the planet will be unable to support life.
Now suddenly, his father is gone. Fighting...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0141306939 |
An updated look for the classic YA thriller from genre heavyweight Richard Peck
Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0440413192 |
I had lizards when I was young, so it stands to reason that a book titled “Lizard Music” would appeal. With allergies to fur and feather, but a fondness for all things non-Hexopod, lizards were an obvious option (well, to me at least; I can hear you dissenters. Let this be a warning to those with children)....
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0449702359 |
I hate the cover of this book. It’s got three girls on it with bad hair, bad clothes (one of them has a sweater tied around her neck), and the caption below the picture says, “Sometimes you learn more in college outside the classroom….” Ugh. It’s screaming for an update. I decided to give it a second...
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0140348859 |
This book wasn't terrible, but definitely wasn't the best book I have ever read. I found myself wanting to know what would come next in this book. The book did have a good meaning and message directed towards mothers and daughters. However, this book seemed oddly specific and had too many details which...
| Author | E.L. Konigsburg |
| ISBN | 0440400341 |
THE REAL NAME of the Little League team was the B'nai B'rith, but everyone called them the B'nai Bagels. Their manager was Bessie Setzer, but every one called her Mother Bagel, and the team grew to love her and even Spencer, Brother Bagel, their coach.
Which was fine for everyone but Mark Setzer. For...
| Author | Janet Lambert |
| ISBN | 1930009267 |
I wasn't sure what to expect as this was a thrift store pick-up. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, giving a sample of the literary, older American slice of life, which is somewhat new and refreshing to me, as an immigrant. There was no deep-end dramatics and no crazy twists. It was simple but never...
| Author | Miss Read |
| ISBN | 0745143121 |
I bought lots of books written by "Miss Read" and she has written many, all set in the country. The name is anonymous but she was a school teacher who began writing after the second world war. 'Emily Davis' was a fellow teacher in the same school and they were the best of friends. After retirement they decided...
