Rites of Spring (Break)

10 best books like Rites of Spring (Break) (Diana Peterfreund): The Last Hellion, Gingerbread, Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel, Modern Faerie Tales, Four Blondes, A Date with Darcy, Penelope, Just Friends, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life, Lady of Skye

The Last Hellion

Author	Loretta Chase
ISBN	0380776170

A ferocious conflict of wills...

Vere Mallory, the Duke of Ainswood, has everything--he's titled, he's rich, he's devastatingly good looking--and he seems determined to throw it all away. Disreputable, reckless, and wild, the last of the Mallory hellions is racing headlong to self-destruction...until...

Gingerbread

Author	Rachel Cohn
ISBN	0689871139

"I will be as wild as I wanna be." After getting tossed from her posh boarding school, wild, willful, and coffee addicted Cyd Charisse returns to San Francisco to live with her parents. But there's no way Cyd can survive in her parents' pristine house. Lucky for Cyd she's got Gingerbread, her childhood...

Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel

Author

Holly Black

From New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes a captivating original novel set between Disney's Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in which newly-queened Aurora struggles to be the best leader to both the humans and Fair Folk under her reign; her beau, Prince Phillip, longs to...

Modern Faerie Tales

Author	Holly Black
ISBN	1442420200

In Tithe, sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient...

Four Blondes

Author

Candace Bushnell

CW: eating disorders and fat shaming (so much weight shaming in general)

**I will be including some quotes directly from the book, so please be advised as they will include some of that content warning.

I'm just so confused and appalled by what I just read. I don't understand what Candace...

A Date with Darcy

Author	Tiffany Schmidt
ISBN	1419728601

Boys are so much better in books. At least according to Merrilee Campbell, fifteen, who thinks real-life chivalry is dead and there’d be nothing more romantic than having a guy woo her like the heroes in classic stories. Then she, her best friend, Eliza, and her younger sister, Rory, transfer to Reginald...

Penelope

Author

Rebecca Harrington

When Penelope O'Shaunessy steps into Harvard Yard for the first time she has lots of advice from her mother. "Don't be too enthusiastic, don't talk to people who seem to be getting annoyed, and for heaven's sake, stop playing Tetris on your phone at parties." Penelope needs this advice. She is the kind...

Just Friends

Author

Robyn Sisman

Thirtysomethings Freya and Jack have been "just friends" for more than ten years. Of course, they've had their differences. Freya doesn't approve of Jack's taste for student teeny-boppers from Planet Bubblegum, and Jack has problems with Freya's utter scorn for human frailty-especially his own.

So...

Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life

Author

Gisele Bündchen

Gisele Bündchen's journey began in southern Brazil, where she grew up sharing a bedroom with her five sisters and bullied by her classmates. At the age of 14, fate intervened suddenly in Sao Paolo in the form of a modeling scout. Four years later, Gisele's appearance in Alexander McQueen's runway show...

Lady of Skye

Author	Patricia Cabot
ISBN	0743410270

Dr. Reilly Stanton, eighth Marquis of Stillworth, must mend his injured pride by proving himself a hero -- and not a drunken wastrel, as his former fiance claimed. Against all sane advice, the Londoner takes a medical post in a tiny fishing village on the remote Isle of Skye -- and is convinced that he can...

Kiss the Bride

Author	Patricia Cabot
ISBN	0743410289

One lucky man would win her hand... A lady of London breeding, Emma Van Court never expected to be left widowed and penniless in the Scottish village of Faires. But when a fortune is promised if she remarries, the pretty schoolteacher finds Faires' motley assortment of eligible men scrambling for her...

The Very Picture of You

Author	Isabel Wolff
ISBN	0553807846

Where the eye sees the brushstroke, the heart sees the truth.
 
From Isabel Wolff, the internationally bestselling author of A Vintage Affair, comes a beguiling novel about artistic inspirations, family secrets, and the courage to turn one’s life into a masterpiece.
 
At...

Perfect Girl

Author

Michele Gorman

Cinderella meets Falling Down in this wickedly funny tale about having it all

Carol is perfect… at least that’s what everyone thinks. In reality she’s sinking fast – her family treats her like their personal assistant and her boyfriend is so busy with work that he’s got her single-handedly...

Love at First Like

Author	Hannah Orenstein
ISBN	1982117796

Eliza Roth and her sister Sophie co-own a jewelry shop in Brooklyn. One night, after learning of an ex’s engagement, Eliza accidentally posts a photo of herself wearing a diamond ring on that finger to her Instagram account beloved by 100,000 followers. Sales skyrocket, press rolls in, and Eliza...

The Boy Next Story

Author	Tiffany Schmidt
ISBN	1419734369

The second book in a series where your favorite literary characters come to life, inspired by the timeless classic, Little Women!

There’s no one better than the boy next door. At least not according to Aurora Campbell, fourteen, who has been in love with Tobias May since their very first sandbox...

Betsy in Spite of Herself

Author

Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy Ray is now a sophomore, and she and her Crowd are in the thick of things at Deep Valley High. Whether she's carrying out her duties as class secretary, trying to charm the exasperating Joe Willard, or juggling the demands of rhetoricals, football games, parties, and exams, Betsy's got her hands...

Descanse Em Paz, Meu Amor

Author	Pedro Bandeira
ISBN	8508057512

Que delicia é o Pedro Bandeira! Fazia um tempão que não lia um bom livro juvenil e esses dias achei essa dica e resolvi procurar no sebo para ler. E fiz muito bem, sentei e li tudo de uma vez. Não que isso seja um feito, afinal o livro é curto, letras grandes e a história boa ajudou a fluir rápido.
Um...

Astray

Author	Emma Donoghue
ISBN	0316206296

The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They...