Paranoid Park
10 best books like Paranoid Park (Blake Nelson): Stupid Fast, Total Constant Order, The Brothers Torres, Suckerpunch, Real Time, Rat Life, Counterfeit Son, Why I Fight, Damage, Kerosene
| Author | Geoff Herbach |
| ISBN | 1402256302 |
I, Felton Reinstein, am Stupid Fast. Seriously. The upper classmen used to call me Squirrel Nut, because I was little and jumpy. Then, during sophomore year, I got tall and huge and so fast the gym teachers in their tight shorts fell all over themselves. During summer, three things happened all at once....
| Author | Crissa-Jean Chappell |
| ISBN | 0060886056 |
Fin can't stop counting. She's always heard a voice inside her head, ordering her to listen, but ever since she's moved to the Sunshine State and her parents split up, numbers thump like a metronome, rhythmically keeping things in control. When a new doctor introduces terms such as "clinical depression"...
| Author | Coert Voorhees |
| ISBN | 1423103041 |
Frankie Towers has always looked up to his older brother, Steve, and with good reason. Steve is a popular senior who always gets what he wants: girls, a soccer scholarship, and--lately--street cred. Frankie, on the other hand, spends his time shooting off fireworks with his best friend Zach, working...
| Author | David Hernandez |
| ISBN | 0061173304 |
Numerous reasons exist to prompt a reader into picking up this book for National Hispanic Heritage Month. The reader should pay attention to the development of masculinity. Hernandez cleverly unravels the danger of macho-bullshit. Enrique, the character who is most abused, embraces a tough guy...
Set in contemporary Israel, this powerful novel is narrated in real time by many voices: Sixteen-year-old Thomas, from Berlin, seeking answers to questions about his grandfather, a Nazi officer in World War II. Vera from Odessa, reclaiming her Jewish heritage. Baruch Ben Tov, a Holocaust survivor....
| Author | Tedd Arnold |
| ISBN | 0803730209 |
The dead body found in the Chemanga River has nothing to do with Todd. He's been busy making beds at the family motel and writing alien stories to entertain his friends. Sure, a murder is big news, but what would "really" interest him? A paying job and a story line free of UFOs and poop jokes. And then he meets...
| Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
| ISBN | 0142301477 |
Cameron Miller is the son of a murderer. All he has ever known is the stench of the locked cellar, where he can hear the blows and cries and his father's torrent of terror and abuse. Then a miracle happens: his father is killed in a police shootout. In the aftermath, Cameron grabs his one chance for a normal...
| Author | J. Adams Oaks |
| ISBN | 1416911774 |
Wyatt Reaves takes the seat next to you, bloodied and soaking wet, and he is a big-fisted beast. Tell him to stretch out like an X across asphalt and you've got a parking space. But Wyatt's been taking it lying down for too long, and he is NOT happy.
Since he turned twelve and a half, he's been living...
| Author | A.M. Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0060290994 |
I was surprised by how well the second person narrative fit this novel, considering I'd never really seen it done well before. The book tells the story of a high school senior struggling with depression and his relationship with a girl whose father has committed suicide. While the main character, Austin,...
A YA novel with a promising premise, Kerosene's endless possibilities are ruined by author Chris Wooding's hit-or-miss text and his undeveloped, one-dimensional characters. At times, Wooding does show the odd bit of future capability, but writing Kerosene at such a young age is probably a main factor...
| Author | Paul Griffin |
| ISBN | 0803732848 |
A stunning debut novel about survival and friendship on the streets of New York City. Best friends Ray and Jose are not your typical thirteen-year-olds. They've escaped foster care and juvenile detention centers to live on their own together in an abandoned building located near Manhattan Park called...
| Author | Katherine Holubitsky |
| ISBN | 1551438518 |
Sixteen-year-old Gordie Jessup is a good kid but he's living a nightmare. His eighteen-year-old brother Chase's two-year addiction to crystal meth has left their family emotionally and financially drained. And just when Gordie thinks he can no longer stand the manipulating, the lying and the stealing,...
| Author | Rune Michaels |
| ISBN | 1416918868 |
Josh worships his older brother, Max. They look alike, they talk alike, and they both have the same interests, including their favorite massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Genesis Alpha. But Josh and Max have an even deeper connection. Because Josh was born for a reason. It was Josh's...
| Author | Robert Lipsyte |
| ISBN | 0060599464 |
The pressure is on.
At Nearmont High School, football stars are treated like royalty, and Matt Rydek has just ascended to the throne. As co-captain of the Raiders, he's got it all, or so it seems: hot girls, all the right friends, plenty of juice to make him strong, and a winning team poised to go...
| Author | Paul Volponi |
| ISBN | 0670062839 |
Noah and his friends go to a predominantly white neighborhood with a plan: steal a car, sell it to a chop shop, and make some fast cash. But that never happens. Instead, Noah, a teen father, is the victim of a vicious beating that leaves him with a fractured skull. Was the attacker just protecting his turf,...
| Author | Michael Harmon |
| ISBN | 0375875166 |
There’s not much keeping Ian McDermott in Spokane, but at least it’s home. He’s been raising Sammy practically on his own ever since their mom disappeared again on one of her binges. They get by, finding just enough to eat and plenty of time to skateboard.
But at Morrison High, Ian is getting...
| Author | Kerry Cohen |
| ISBN | 1416914250 |
Easy. At the ripe young age of fourteen Jessica has discovered that getting the attention she wants is just that—easy. It’s not the attention of a divorced mother who spends all of her time grieving over a broken marriage. Nor is it that of a father with a new girlfriend who’s moving on with his life....
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
| Author | David Yoo |
| ISBN | 1423109074 |
If Albert Kim has learned one thing in his tragic adolescence, it's that God (probably a sadistic teenaged alien) does not want him to succeed at Bern High. By the end of sophomore year, Al is so tired of humiliation that he's chosen to just forget girls and high school society in general, and enjoy...
| Author | Helen Cross |
| ISBN | 0747575886 |
(3.5 stars)
I watched the film of My Summer of Love earlier this year. It was one I'd picked up super cheap at some point in time, completely unaware that it was related to the novel I'd had sitting in my bookshelves for years, waiting to be read. I didn't like the movie at all, so I had very low expectations...
| Author | Tom Sniegoski |
| ISBN | 1595140522 |
Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com
Welcome to the world of Tom Lovett. At sixteen, Tom is homeschooled, but not for the reasons that many students are. No, Tom is homeschooled because his parents don't believe that he can function in a normal high school. Because Tom has narcolepsy, a disease...
| Author | E.E. Charlton-Trujillo |
Review originally posted on librarian Edi Campbell's blog: https://campbele.wordpress.com/2016/0...
BOOK SUMMARY
"When We Was Fierce" focuses on and is narrated in the Brokenest of Manifested English (examples to come) by T aka Theodore. At the start of the book T is hanging with...
