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10 best books like Not Like You (Deborah Davis): Access Denied: And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages, Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico, The Fourth Grade Wizards, Eighth-Grade Superzero, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, Last Dance, The Sound of Munich, Frozen Summer, Leap of Faith, Never Sit Down in a Hoopskirt and Other Things I Learned in Southern Belle Hell

Access Denied: And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages
AuthorDenise Vega
ISBN0316034487
Reviewed by JodiG. for TeensReadToo.com

Erin Swift is sure that the eighth grade will be a far better experience than her last school year.

In seventh grade - the Year of Humiliating Events (or YOHE as she likes to refer to it) - Erin's private blog became a very public one. Everyone at...
Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico
AuthorMalin Alegria
ISBN0689878117
"Do you guys have Internet?.."."How about TiVo?.."."You do get American TV?" The house was dark. "Wait a minute -- do they even have electricity?"Even though Sofi Mendoza was born in Mexico, she's spent most of her life in California -- the closest she gets to a south-of-the-border experience is eating...
The Fourth Grade Wizards
AuthorBarthe DeClements
ISBN0140327606
Marianne is turning into a daydreamer in class, drifting back through her memories of happier times, and falling way behind in her schoolwork. Despite her father's efforts, the months since Marianne's mother died have been one long stretch of loneliness and hurting. Like her friend Jack, who's a good...
Eighth-Grade Superzero
AuthorOlugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
ISBN0545096766
In this terrific debut, a Brooklyn middle-schooler finds the superhero within himself thanks to old friends, new dreams, and a pair of magical "Dora the Explorer" sneakers.

Ever since a deeply unfortunate incident earlier this year, Reggie's been known as "Pukey" McKnight at his high-intensity...
The Patron Saint of Butterflies
AuthorCecilia Galante
ISBN1599902494
Agnes and Honey have always been best friends, but they haven't always been so different. Agnes loves being a Believer. She knows the rules at the Mount Blessing religious commune are there to make her a better person. Honey hates Mount Blessing and the control Emmanuel, their leader, has over her life....
Last Dance
AuthorLurlene McDaniel
I picked this up because Lurlene McDaniel was mentioned in a teaching book as an author that some reluctant readers really liked. This was a very quick read.

To me, it reads like this author must pump these books out at a rate of one a month. It has the most minimal plot twists possible, and the characters...
The Sound of Munich
AuthorSuzanne Nelson
ISBN0142405760
Siena Bernstein is leaving her yoga mat behind for a semester of study abroad in Munich. She’s thrilled with the prospect of a German adventure (her horoscope is encouraging as well), but she hopes to make more than just her dreams come true while she’s there. Siena’s dad, who passed away when she...
Frozen Summer
AuthorMary Jane Auch
ISBN0440416248
It's 1816 and Remembrance "Mem" Nye and her family are going through a cold, hard summer in their new home in western New York. There's barely any food since Papa's crops were destroyed by the late
season frosts. Mem's mama has never gotten used to their new home. It's even harder for her to cope after...
Leap of Faith
AuthorKimberly Brubaker Bradley
ISBN0803731272
Abigail is starting a new middle school, a Catholic school, because she's been expelled from her old one. She's sure that this place will be just the same as the last, and no one will listen to her here either. Even her parents don't seem able to really hear the truth about what happened at the previous school....
Never Sit Down in a Hoopskirt and Other Things I Learned in Southern Belle Hell
AuthorCrickett Rumley
ISBN1606841319
Expelled from thirteen boarding schools in the past five years, seventeen-year-old Jane Fontaine Ventouras is returning to her Southern roots, and the small town of Bienville, Alabama, where ladies always wear pearls, nothing says hospitality like sweet tea
and pimento cheese sandwiches,...
The Poison Apples
AuthorLily Archer
ISBN0312367627
We all know the stories of Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel.  But have you ever heard of Alice Bingley-Beckerman, Reena Paruchuri, or Molly Miller?  Of course you haven’t.  Not yet.  What these girls have in common with their fairy tale sisters is this:  they are the stepdaughters of three...
Rescuing Seneca Crane
AuthorSusan Runholt
When Kari and Lucas first see Seneca Crane up on stage, playing the piano in front of hundreds of people, they are in awe. She is beautiful. She is amazingly talented. And she is only thirteen! But then they get to know her at the Edinburgh Arts Festival and realize that she envies them. Soon the three are...
From Charlie's Point of View
AuthorRichard Scrimger
ISBN0142408182
Charlie Fairmile's got problems. He's about to start a new year at Schuyler Colfax Middle school, and his dad has been accused of bank robbery. Charlie knows that his dad is innocent, but the police insist that Mr. Fairmile must be the stocking bandit. So Charlie has no choice but to try to find the real...
The Summer Sherman Loved Me
AuthorJane St. Anthony
ISBN0374372896
What happens when you get what you think you want and then don't know what to do with it? When twelve-year-old Margaret hears the boy next door call to her in the middle of the night, her heart races with excitement – and nervousness. Will this mean Sherman is her boyfriend? Although Sherman insists that...
Summerhouse Time
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0375840613
Every year a rented pink cottage full of family, swapping stories, and riding waves mean Summerhouse Time for Sophie. Best of all is sharing a room with her favorite cousin and laughing and trading secrets like two happy peas in a cousin pod. Sophie can't wait! But when she asks the now-a-teenager Colleen...
Side Effects
AuthorAmy Goldman Koss
ISBN1596432942
As if it doesn't suck enough to have cancer, practically every time you pick up books or see movies where characters get sick, you know they'll be dead by the last scene. In reality, kids get all kinds of cancers, go through unspeakable torture and painful treatments, but walk away fine in the end. From...
Fairy School Dropout
AuthorMeredith Badger
ISBN0312378874
Step away from the wand...

We aren't usually big fairy fans, but for Elly Knottleweed-Eversprightly, we've made an exception. You see, Elly, although she is a fairy, isn't a big fan of fairies either.

In fact, she hates being a fairy.

She hates her itchy tutu school uniform...
Ophie Out of Oz
AuthorKathleen O'Dell
ISBN0142403946
At her school in California, fourth-grader Ophie Peeler has it all: starring roles in all the school plays, plenty of attention and, of course, the best best friend a girl could ask for. Like Dorothy, Ophie is on the yellow brick road to a glamorous, adventurefilled life. But all of that changes when Ophie...
Katie's New Recipe
AuthorCoco Simon
ISBN1442471697
Katie’s long-lost father is finally reaching out—but is she ready for the reunion?

For as long as Katie can remember, it’s just been her and her mom. But that’s about to change. First her mom gets a boyfriend. And then Katie gets an email from her dad, whom she’s never met, saying he...
What Happens Here
AuthorTara Altebrando
We were going to see the world together, Lindsay and I. We were going to eat it up, whole. But it didn't happen that way. It didn't happen that way at all.... When Chloe's parents decide to take her to Europe the summer before senior year of high school, she's ecstatic...she only wishes her best friend,...
Other Sister
AuthorS.T. Underdahl
ISBN0738709336
Josey Muller's regular life--studying with her best friends, planning for the Hollidazzle dance, and gossiping about hot guys--is shaken like a snow globe when her parents drop an A-bomb: she has a sister! Pressured to give up the baby they conceived in high school, her parents are overjoyed to reunite...
Just Grace Walks the Dog
AuthorCharise Mericle Harper
ISBN0618959734
Everyone’s favorite Grace is back. And this time she has a dog.
Unfortunately, he’s only made of cardboard and rides a skate board. Grace is determined though to prove to her parents that she is responsible and dependable enough to get a real dog.
Things you learn in this book:
1. Sometimes...
Someone Like Summer
AuthorM.E. Kerr
ISBN0061140996
Annabel first sees him playing soccer near her house. His name is Esteban--she sees it on the back of his team shirt. He notices her, smiles, then looks back over his shoulder at her again.

It is the beginning of summer in the resort town of Seaview. It is also the start of a romance between a young...
The Second Virginity of Suzy Green
AuthorSara Hantz
Suzy Green used to be one of the coolest nonconformist "almost-Goth" party girls in Australia. That was before her older sister Rosie died and her family moved to a new town. Not even her best friend would recognize her now. Gone are the Doc Martens and the attitude. All she wants is to be like Rosie--perfect....
The Center of the Universe: Yep, That Would Be Me
AuthorAnita Liberty
ISBN1416957898
I CAN'T FIX THE WORLD. I CAN ONLY SIT BACK AND CRITICIZE IT.





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