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10 best books like Pinned (Alfred C. Martino): The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party, The Perfect Distance, Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie, A Thief in the House of Memory, Funny Business, Wrestling Sturbridge, Locomotion, Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl, Kipling's Choice, Light Years

The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party
AuthorMarian Calabro
ISBN0395866103
On April 14, 1846, the Donner Party set out from Springfield, Illinois, in search of a better life in the largely unsettled California territory. The trip started well but eventually questionable choices and infighting delayed pioneers' attempt to cross the Sierra Nevada until winter. As the impassable...
The Perfect Distance
AuthorKim Ablon Whitney
ISBN0553494678
Seventeen-year-old Francie Martinez rides with one of the best equitation trainers in the country, and works as a groom to pay her way. For as long as she can remember, she's dreamed of winning the Maclay finals in Madison Square Garden—the most prestigious horse event in the country for this age group—and...
Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
AuthorRachel Corrie
ISBN0393065715
How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These are the timeless questions so eloquently posed by Rachel Corrie, a young American activist killed on March 16, 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in the...
A Thief in the House of Memory
AuthorTim Wynne-Jones
ISBN0374374783
Family secrets, forgotten memories, and the transforming power of truth

It's been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present, he's avoided examining his past. But when an intruder dies in the museum-like family...
Funny Business
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN0061963739
It’s here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring...
Wrestling Sturbridge
AuthorRich Wallace
ISBN0679885552
Another interesting sports and character book; small town wrestling team out East is the obsession of the whole town (like football in Odessa/Midland). The place is the kind of town most kids can't wait to leave, and the teenage behavior is pretty accurate - lots of drinking by athletes and cheerleaders,...
Locomotion
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0142401498
When Lonnie Collins Motion "Locomotion" was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now he's eleven, and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his...
Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl
AuthorDebra Garfinkle
ISBN0142407828
The journal of Michael "Storky" Pomerantz tells the tumultuous tale of life as a high-schooler—complete with the fact that the love of his life is dating a high school football player. As he chronicles the highs—and, of course, the most embarrassing lows—of his freshman year in high school,...
Kipling's Choice
AuthorGeert Spillebeen
ISBN0618800352
As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.

When World War I broke out, John, like his father...
Light Years
AuthorTammar Stein
ISBN0375830235
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer programmer. Two college students. A grandmother and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to...
Stained
AuthorJennifer Richard Jacobson
ISBN1416913378
The Book I read Is called Stained written by Jennifer Richard Jacobson. Stained is a Fiction story with alot of suspence, you'll never know whats going to happen next! The main character in this book is Jocelyn, a young girl who lives the usual life but she's sometimes confused. The theme in this book is...
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems
AuthorStephanie Hemphill
ISBN0786837454
Sarah used to be the good girl. The one who always had her hand raised in class, always obeyed her parents.
Until she met Robin. Once Robin comes into the picture, Sarah's life changes. Her closet begins to fill with black clothes. Good grades become something to be studiously avoided. And maintaining...
The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0895774151
I was going to give this a two-star rating, but reading several of the other reviews, it’s just clear to me that I didn’t like the book that much. I don’t think Twain’s humor is that funny, rarely evokes a smile much less a laugh, and his writing is dull and wordy. I lose track of what he’s trying...
Upstream
AuthorMelissa Lion
ISBN0375839542
Marty’s small town in Alaska is the most beautiful place in the world. There she and her beloved boyfriend, Steven, can walk through fields of fireweed, explore the wild, and tie pink floozy fishing lures to catch the salmon that swim upstream. But when she starts her senior year, Marty must return...
No Right Turn
AuthorTerry Trueman
ISBN0060574917
Three years after his father's suicide, Jordan is a self-described zombie. With no friends and no interests, Jordan has made sure he is invisible and alone because it's easier to get by that way. But then salvation comes in the most unlikely form. It's gorgeous, and it's sexy-a 1976 Corvette! Drawn by...
Girls Dinner Club
AuthorJessie Elliot
ISBN0060595418
ingredients one rainy afternoon
one huge crush on a boy
a few secrets
a kitchen, preferably somewhere in Brooklyn
fresh laughter -- as much as you want
one or two broken hearts
a pinch of salt
a good friend -- or even better, three

Junie's

The love of Junie's...
Irises
AuthorFrancisco X. Stork
TWO SISTERS: Kate is bound for Stanford and an M.D. -- if her family will let her go. Mary wants only to stay home and paint. When their loving but repressive father dies, they must figure out how to support themselves and their mother, who is in a permanent vegetative state, and how to get along in all their...
Rebound
AuthorBob Krech
ISBN0761453199
Bob Krech’s Rebound takes you through a story form main character Ray’s perspective. Ray is white living in a predominantly black town in New Jersey. He loves the game of basketball, but in that town it is rare and sort of unheard of for white kids to be playing basketball. Although he gets cut from...
Dead Men Kill
AuthorL. Ron Hubbard
ISBN1592122639
Detective Terry Lane is a standout homicide cop who thought he’d seen it all . . . until now. 

As tough as Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness of The Untouchables—and just as incorruptible—Lane has seen the darkest side of human behavior.  But he’s never seen a murder spree like this, targeting...
Cobwebs
AuthorKaren Romano Young
ISBN0064410285
The pattern will change . . .
because I am here. A girl walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, a backpack full of knitting slung over her shoulder, a green fish kite in her hand.

A boy balances on the bridge's crisscross webbing, waiting for the girl to pass.

Are they angels? Spiders? In...
It Happened One Night
AuthorLisa Dale
ISBN0446406902
Sometimes love finds you when you least expect it.
Lana Biel has always wanted to shake the dust of Vermont off her feet and see the world, one exotic country after another. But when a lighthearted spring fling changes her life forever, she turns to the one man whose strong shoulders can lighten any...
The Sudoku Murder
AuthorShelley Freydont
“This intriguing first in a new series from Freydont (A Merry Little Murder and four other mysteries featuring dancer Linda Haggerty) introduces mathematician and Sudoku whiz Katie McDonald.

Katie, a self-professed geek who works for a hush-hush government think tank, returns to her...
Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA
AuthorEllen Meister
ISBN0060818638
At once tender and hilarious, this captivating story turns suburbia upside down, revealing the inner lives of three characters who have more humor, heartache, and heat than one PTA can hold

When a Hollywood location scout comes to Applewood, Long Island, and announces that the local elementary...
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