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10 best books like My Mother the Cheerleader (Robert Sharenow): The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California, The Loud Silence of Francine Green, Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, Touching Snow, Crossing Stones, Red Moon at Sharpsburg, Riot, After the First Death, Converting Kate, After the Death of Anna Gonzales

The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California
AuthorMary Hershey
ISBN1595141502
“Mom didn’t think it was funny when I took off my leg at school, put it in my locker, and then tied a rag around my stump with fake blood on it. After that, though, the kids at school pretty much knew if anyone was going to be cracking jokes about my leg, it was gonna be me.” So says thirteen-year-old Alastair...
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
AuthorKaren Cushman
ISBN0618504559
Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence....
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
AuthorSarah Miller
ISBN1416925422
Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she'd taken on a seemingly impossible job -- teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild animal. But Helen Keller needed more than a teacher. She needed...
Touching Snow
AuthorM. Sindy Felin
ISBN1416917950
"The best way to avoid being picked on by high school bullies is to kill someone."

Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent to the principal -- again. She'd like this to change,...
Crossing Stones
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374316538
Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel.
Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.

Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family's closest friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can remember, the families' lives have been intertwined,...
Red Moon at Sharpsburg
AuthorRosemary Wells
ISBN0670036382
Award-winning author Rosemary Wells lays bare the senseless devastation of war in this stunning novel. As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn'tknow she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia...
Riot
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN1606840002
As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines.

During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft that would...
After the First Death
AuthorRobert Cormier
ISBN0440208351
Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, said in an interview with Horn Book Magazine, “Most teenage fiction has an invisible ring of safety built into it. However sticky situations get, however dark the material, little signals here and there give off the message that...
Converting Kate
AuthorBeckie Weinheimer
ISBN0670061522
Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church. It influenced everything from her homeschooling to her handmade clothes. But ever since her unbelieving father's death last year, she has suspected that there's more to life than memorizing scripture.

Taking advantage of their move to a new town,...
After the Death of Anna Gonzales
AuthorTerri Fields
A look at the effects of one girl's suicide on her high school

"I can feel
The whispering of the hallway walls
Growing louder as the groups gather.
Each clique adding to its morning input.

"Did you hear?"
"Who told you?"
"Do you think it's really true?"

New...
The Day It Snowed Tortillas / El día que nevó tortilla
AuthorJoe Hayes
ISBN0938317768
Kids of all ages are always asking Joe Hayes, "How can it snow tortillas?" Well, now they’ll know where to find the answer—at long last, Joe’s signature book The Day It Snowed Tortillas is appearing in this new bilingual edition. Bloomsbury Review listed the original English-only edition as...
Fire from the Rock
AuthorSharon M. Draper
ISBN0525477209
Sylvia Patterson is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in September 1957, whether the citizens or governor of Arkansas like it or not. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial...
Bone by Bone by Bone
AuthorTony Johnston
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK in 1950s, Tennessee. Tony Johnston draws on her own childhood memories to limn a portrait of a sensitive and compassionate boy fighting for a friendship his father forbids.David's daddy is determined that his son will grow up to be a doctor like himself. David studies...
The Miner's Daughter
AuthorGretchen Moran Laskas
ISBN1416912622
Perhaps there is always a mark, when another person touches you, an invisible thread connecting you to them.

Backbreaking work, threadbare clothes, and black coal dust choking the air -- this is what a miner's daughter knows. Willa Lowell fears that this dust marks her to be nothing else,...
Strays
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763627054
Sixteen-year-old Ted O’Connor’s parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he’s stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers — Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta — and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He’s having pretty...
Project Sweet Life
AuthorBrent Hartinger
ISBN0060824115
For most kids, fifteen is the year of the optional summer job: Sure, you can get a job if you really want one, but it isn't required or anything. Too bad Dave's dad doesn't agree! Instead of enjoying long days of biking, swimming, and sitting around, Dave and his two best friends are being forced by their...
Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
AuthorRonald Kidd
ISBN1416905723
Dayton is a sleepy little town nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. It is long across and about two miles wide. Despite being the home of Bryan College, a school with over 800 students from around the world, it clings persistently to its small-town feel. The local librarians know the gossip on almost...
Little Audrey
AuthorRuth White
ISBN0374345805
"What else would you wish for?" Daddy says. "If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?"
I shrug. "Oh, I don't know. Maybe . . ."
"Maybe what?"
"For us to live better than we do."
He does not say anything.

In 1948, award-winning author Ruth White lived in Jewell...
Full Service
AuthorWill Weaver
ISBN0374324859
The times they are a-changin' . . .

The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family farm. You need to meet the public, she says, which is saying a lot for a woman deeply committed to the tightly knit religious community to which...
Bird
AuthorAngela Johnson
ISBN0142405442
How do you use the gift of a heart which isn't yours? How does one beg the most important question when they couldn't stand to hear the answer either way?

Bird is a leisurely-paced novella that centers around three teens who all are still coping with tragedies faded but still visible - divorce,...
The Interrogation of Gabriel James
AuthorCharlie Price
ISBN0374335451
Eyewitness to two killings, fourteen-year-old Gabriel James relates the shocking story behind the murders in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks. Step by step, this Montana teenager traces his discovery of a link between a troubled classmate's disturbing home life...
Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness
AuthorGary D. Schmidt
ISBN0805067949
A testament to the power of stories, and how they may bring hope even in times of darkness.

"Everyone gathers around, and from her lips to their ears the stories go, and for a little while the camp disappears, and for a little while they are all free."

As night falls, the women gather their...
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorRick Bowers
ISBN1426305958
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history.

Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials...
Black Duck
AuthorJanet Taylor Lisle
ISBN0399239634
When Ruben and Jed find the dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. It is the 1920’s, Prohibition is in full swing, and almost everyone in the shore community is involved. Suddenly, the boys find themselves involved as well: Didn’t the dead...
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