Saturday Night

10 best books like Saturday Night (Caroline B. Cooney): Ordinary Girls, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, Aug 9 - Fog, Everything Is Teeth, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark, Lena, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family, Travel Light, Move Fast, Boy-Crazy Stacey

Ordinary Girls

Author	Blair Thornburgh
ISBN	0062447815

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Mlynowski, this heartfelt and humorous contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters—complete opposites—who discover the secrets they’ve been keeping make them more alike than they’d realized.

For two sisters as different...

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Author	Laura Cumming
ISBN	1501198718

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

In the...

Aug 9 - Fog

Author	Kathryn Scanlan
ISBN	0374106878

A Paris Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019

A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons

Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger's five-year diary...

Everything Is Teeth

Author

Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their victims.

Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate collection of the memories she brought...

I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0142405558

3 soft snickerdoodles.

Cover Love: No, but I saw there were several editions of this book and many other great covers.

Why I Wanted to Read This:
My library has a bunch of Jacqueline Woodson books and I keep meaning to read some of them. I saw mention of this one in an article so I went...

The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark

Author	Muriel Spark
ISBN	0811215490

I aim to startle as well as please," Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhaps may not...

Lena

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0142406163

Genre/Category: Jacqueline Woodson

This book follows the story of Lena and her sister as they run away from their sexual abusive father to find their mother's family halfway across the country. As they travel, they meet all kinds of people, and begin realizing that those who loved them the...

Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family

Author

Kathleen Flinn

A delicious memoir from the author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry

In this family history interwoven with recipes, Kathleen Flinn returns readers to the mix of food and memoir beloved by readers of her bestselling The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing...

Travel Light, Move Fast

Author

Alexandra Fuller

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived

Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the...

Boy-Crazy Stacey

Author	Gale Galligan
ISBN	1338304518

Stacey and Mary Anne are baby-sitting for the Pike family for two weeks at the New Jersey shore. Things are great in Sea City: There's a gorgeous house right on the beach, a boardwalk, plenty of sun and sand... and the cutest boy Stacey has ever seen!

Mary Anne thinks that Stacey should leave Scott...