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10 best books like Remember Me to Harold Square (Paula Danziger): Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, White House Autumn, Losing Joe's Place, Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, To All My Fans, with Love, from Sylvie, After the Rain, There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Twenty Pageants Later, Anastasia on Her Own, Winter Dreams, Christmas Love

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
AuthorM.E. Kerr
ISBN0061139890
M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship

It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....
White House Autumn
AuthorEllen Emerson White
ISBN1930709250
After ten months of living in the White House, seventeen-year old Meghan Powers knew she should be used to the pressures of life in the spotlight-but she wasn't.In addition to the usual senior year worries-college applications and Josh, her first serious boyfriend-Meg had to live up to what was expected...
Losing Joe's Place
AuthorGordon Korman
ISBN0590427695
I remember reading this for the first time so clearly. I was probably ten or twelve or thereabouts. I didn't think it was as immediately funny as other Gordon Korman books, but I remember telling my friend that it built to an amazing crescendo, where all its threads came together in a way that made me laugh...
Henry Reed's Babysitting Service
AuthorKeith Robertson
ISBN0140341463
Henry Reed has another sure-fire money-making plan--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own

An intelligent person like Henry should have no problem riding herd on the town's toddlers. But Henry's never tangled with such monsters as daredevil Danny, whose stunts keep Henry...
To All My Fans, with Love, from Sylvie
AuthorEllen Conford
ISBN0671637630
Sylvie isn't your average girl. When she dresses up she looks eighteen, and she's spent the last three years in foster care plotting her escape to Hollywood. But as Sylvie quickly learns on the road, zigzagging across the Midwest in a stranger's two-tone blue Pontiac, life isn't like the movies. Left...
After the Rain
AuthorNorma Fox Mazer
ISBN0380750252
At fifteen, Rachel is a worrier. She worries about whether her family understands her, whether her friends like her, and whether she'll get her first kiss before she turns sixteen. And she worries about whether she can handle having a real boyfriend if he does come along.

But it takes a dying...
There's a Girl in My Hammerlock
AuthorJerry Spinelli
ISBN0671746847
Just finished this excellent young adult story. Spinelli has done it again -- spun a story I could hardly put down and that pulled all the loose ends together without tying them too tight.

Maisie is an athletic type junior high girl. She was Athlete of the Year, playing on the basketball team,...
Twenty Pageants Later
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0553296728
Scottie-Anne's older sister is a 'professional' participant in beauty contests, and after watching so many of them, Scottie-Anne's conclusion is that brains don't count much. she wants nothing to do with what she considers the shallow, egotistical world of pageants-until her school holds one....
Anastasia on Her Own
AuthorLois Lowry
ISBN0440402913
Help! Anastasia Krupnik's mother must organize her chaotic life. So Anastasia, who is a very organized person, and her father invent the solution to Mrs. Krupnik's problem: the Krupnik Family Nonsexist Housekeeping Schedule.

But when Mrs. Krupnik goes to California on a ten-day business...
Winter Dreams, Christmas Love
AuthorMary Francis Shura
I read this when I was about 15, and for some weird reason it just stuck with me! Although I am a lot older and wiser, this book is still very charming and very much a product of it's time! lol everyone just 'falls in love' as soon as they clap eyes on one another. And it's very idealised as our herione Ellen does...
Roommates
AuthorEmily Chase
ISBN0590412124
Dana Morrison - spirited, independent, city girl.

Faith Thompson - determinted, talented, and practical.

Shelley Hyde - naive small town girl.

Dana, Faith, and Shelley, all new to Canby Hall in their sophomore year, end up as roommates -- and get off to the worst possible...
Spying on Miss Muller
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0449704556
Jessie and her best friends in boarding school have always loved their teacher, Miss Müller. Half-German and half-Irish, she's as beautiful as a movie star. But ever since their country, Ireland, went to war with Germany, they don't feel the same way. In fact, the girls now think there's something...
Sister of the Bride
AuthorBeverly Cleary
At first, Barbara isn't sure how she feels about her older sister getting married. Then, once the wedding planning goes into high gear, it becomes almost impossible for her not to imagine a wedding -- for herself! But as the big day approaches, family arguments abound and Barbara's fun-loving sister...
Mel
AuthorLiz Berry
ISBN0140365346
This is kind of a weird book. On the one hand, it's a Cinderella romance story between poor, abused, untrusting Mel and rich, glamorous, rock star Mitch. On the other hand, it's also the story of how Mel takes charge of her life after her mother's breakdown. And on the third hand, there's a hefty dose of social...
Sooner or Later
AuthorCarole Hart
ISBN0380429780
I came across this book in one of my trunks. I have kept it since the first time I read it and fell for Bruce and Carole Hart's writing.
As I turned each page, the flash of me as a teen filled with wonder, excitement, and lost within the pages hit - which had me devouring the book in under an hour.
A great...
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