My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters
10 best books like My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters (Sydney Salter): Shine, Coconut Moon, Exclusively Chloe, Mudville, Secrets of Truth and Beauty, At Face Value, All About Vee, The Possibilities of Sainthood, Fortune's Folly, And Then Everything Unraveled, Love, Lies and Texas Dips
| Author | Neesha Meminger |
| ISBN | 1416954953 |
Seventeen-year-old Samar -- a.k.a. Sam -- has never known much about her Indian heritage. Her mom has deliberately kept Sam away from her old-fashioned family. It's never bothered Sam, who is busy with school, friends, and a really cute but demanding boyfriend.But things change after 9/11. A guy in...
| Author | Jon Yang |
| ISBN | 0142412260 |
Chloe-Grace can't help it—she's spectacular. How could she not be with celebrity parents who have been the queen and king of Hollywood for years? And Chloe is a celebrity all unto herself as well— she's the first celebrity-adopted kid in Hollywood. But now Chloe's sixteen, and she is tired of every...
| Author | Kurtis Scaletta |
| ISBN | 0375855793 |
Welcome to Moundville, where it?s been raining for longer than Roy McGuire has been alive. Most people say the town is cursed?right in the middle of their big baseball game against rival town Sinister Bend, black clouds crept across the sky and it started to rain. That was 22 years ago . . . and it?s still...
| Author | Megan Frazer Blakemore |
| ISBN | 1423117115 |
And the first runner up is... When Dara Cohen was little, she was a bright, shiny star. She was the cutest seven-year-old who ever sang Ella Fitzgerald, and it was no wonder she was crowned Little Miss Maine.
That was then. Now Dara's seventeen and she's not so little anymore. So not little, that...
| Author | Emily Franklin |
| ISBN | 0738713074 |
"You've never seen a nose as big as mine."
In this modern love story, Cyrano de Bergerac is reinvented as a brilliant and funny seventeen-year-old . . . girl. A tennis champion, straight-A student, and editor of the school paper, Cyrie Bergerac has learned to live with her (ahem) peculiar proboscis....
| Author | C. Leigh Purtill |
| ISBN | 1595141804 |
Veronica May ("Big Vee") is a bubbly, gorgeous, confident, eighteen-year-old theater actress from Chester, Arizona. She is also two hundred pounds. She puts off college, her life, and her questions about her mother's death twelve years earlier to care for her widowed father. Then Daddy announces...
| Author | Donna Freitas |
| ISBN | 0374360871 |
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...
| Author | Deva Fagan |
| ISBN | 0805087427 |
Ever since her mother died and her father lost his shoemaking skills, Fortunata has survived by telling fake fortunes. But when she’s tricked into telling a grand fortune for a prince, she is faced with the impossible task of fulfilling her wild prophecy—or her father will be put to death.
Now...
| Author | Jennifer Sturman |
| ISBN | 0545087228 |
First there was a disappearance.
Then there was a clue.
Then there was a kiss.
And then...
Delia Truesdale has no idea her life's about to change forever. She's too busy enjoying the California summer. Her Internet tycoon mother, T.K. Truesdale, is out of town, and that means Delia...
Love, Lies and Texas Dips
| Author | Susan McBride |
| ISBN | 0385735200 |
The Debs are back!
Now that her dream of becoming a deb is finally coming true, Laura’s confidence is at an all-time high. But when she dares to mess with Jo Lynn’s football star boyfriend, Dillon, Laura finds herself at the center of some heinous gossip.
As predicted, becoming...
| Author | Alex McAulay |
| ISBN | 1416545832 |
From the acclaimed author of Bad Girls comes a “dark, break-neck paced journey through wartime England, full of twists and turns you’ll never see coming” (Christopher Golden, author of Soulless) as a teenage girl discovers that evil comes in many forms when she and a group of friends run away...
| Author | Alexa Young |
| ISBN | 0061175706 |
From besties to worsties and back again . . .
Team Avalon:
For Avalon, staying on top of trends has never been a problem—until her fellow cheerleaders decide that her BFF Halley is definitely out this season. Now Avalon must choose between the frenemy who embarrassed her in front...
Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers
| Author | Nancy Amanda Redd |
| ISBN | 1592403263 |
"You’d think a Miss America swimsuit winner would feel completely confident about her body, right? Not always! So I decided to write the book I wish I’d had as a teen and in college—an honest, funny, practical, medically accurate, totally reassuring guide to how women’s bodies actually look,...
Back When You Were Easier to Love
| Author | Emily Wing Smith |
| ISBN | 0525421998 |
What's worse than getting dumped? Not even knowing if you've been dumped. Joy got no goodbye, and certainly no explanation when Zan-the love of her life and the only good thing about stifling, backward Haven, Utah-unceremoniously and unexpectedly left for college a year early. Joy needs closure almost...
| Author | Cynthea Liu |
| ISBN | 0399250433 |
So what if it's a rite of passage for every seventh grade girl in town to spend a night in the woods? Paris Pan only just moved here, the woods are super creepy, and she has enough weirdness to deal with in her own family. Finding out a girl died mysteriously years ago while on the Dare-right near Paris's new...
| Author | Tricia Mills |
| ISBN | 1595142568 |
Hailey Abbott's Summer Boys takes a weepy turn in this story of one girl's attempt to tell her childhood friend how she really feels about him.
Alex thought she'd be spending the summer focused on her family's rafting business, burying the memories of her father's death last year, and leaving...
| Author | Lara Zielin |
| ISBN | 0399250662 |
Emma has a lot going on. Her best friend's not speaking to her, a boy she's known all her life is suddenly smokin? hot and in love with her, and oh yes, her evangelical minister parents may lose their church, especially if her mother keeps giving sermons saying Adam was a hermaphrodite. But this weekend...
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Shawna Stone, 16, can handle anything from a Las Vegas hustle to skipping out on the rent. Scarred inside and out, she's survived with a tough, hardened attitude. Yet she's thrown when her mother abandons her in Vegas with only a bus ticket and...
This Is What I Want to Tell You
| Author | Heather Duffy Stone |
Friendship,love,and unexpected secrets
Nadio and his twin sister, Noelle, always had a unique bond. And somehow, Keeley Shipley fit perfectly into their world. But when Keeley spends the summer in England, she comes home changed, haunted by a dark memory. As she and Nadio fall in love,...
| Author | Wendy Toliver |
| ISBN | 1416990488 |
When 15-year-old Poppy Browne moves from Boulder, CO, to Pleasant Acres, TX, with her professor mother, she has to attend Calvary High even though she's not Baptist. She makes friends with the popular girls and has a date for the Sadie Hawkins dance. Poppy gets caught in an ex-BFF rivalry between her...
| Author | Sarah Quigley |
| ISBN | 0525479082 |
Friends call Becca the Overshare Queen, but her tendency for TMI never seemed like a problem to her until she blabs about her sweet band-geek boyfriend’s sloppy kisses—and gets dumped! Realizing it may be better to resist the temptation to overshare face-to-face, Becca decides to blog anonymously...
| Author | Cheryl Renee Herbsman |
| ISBN | 0670011231 |
Savannah would be happy to spend the summer in her coastal Carolina town working at the library and lying in a hammock reading her beloved romance novels. But then she meets Jackson. Once they lock eyes, she's convinced he's the one - her true love, her soul mate, a boy different from all the rest. And at...
| Author | Jennifer Jabaley |
| ISBN | 1595142312 |
Sometimes a good-bye is just the beginning.
When Emily Carson’s parents die in a plane crash, she’s left with nothing but her mother’s last words scrawled in lipstick on a tray table: Emily, please forgive me.
Now it’s fall and Emily moves to New York City, where she attracts...
| Author | Kathryn Williams |
| ISBN | 1423101286 |
"I died one summer, or I almost did. Part of me did. I don't say that to be dramatic, only because it's true."
For the past nine years, Helena Waite has been returning to summer camp at Southpoint. Every year the camp and its familiar routines, landmarks, and people have welcomed her back like a long-lost...
