Stained
10 best books like Stained (Jennifer Richard Jacobson): The Orphan Band of Springdale, Amiri & Odette: A Love Story, The Perfect Distance, All Rivers Flow To The Sea, Wrecked, A Thief in the House of Memory, Eyes of the Emperor, Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl, Theories of Relativity, Kipling's Choice
The Orphan Band of Springdale
| Author | Anne Nesbet |
| ISBN | 0763688045 |
With the United States on the verge of World War II, eleven-year-old Gusta is sent from New York City to Maine, where she discovers small-town prejudices — and a huge family secret.
It’s 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0590680412 |
In this modern retelling of the Swan Lake ballet, acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers explores the sweet/sharp spark of love between two teens.
A boy searches for his newfound love among the city streets, to find that, unwarily, she's been caught in the arms of an evil street lord who means her...
| Author | Kim Ablon Whitney |
| ISBN | 0553494678 |
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...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 1844282511 |
When a car accident leaves a teenage girl in a coma, her surviving sister struggles with grief and guilt as she faces the inevitability of moving on — and letting go.
To seventeen-year-old Rose, it seems it keeps happening - that car crash on a mountain road, her older sister, Ivy, behind...
| Author | E.R. Frank |
| ISBN | 0689873840 |
A tragic car wreck leads to PTSD and therapeutic salvation in this novel from the author of America, which Kirkus Reviews deemed “a work of sublime humanity.”
Anna is involved in a horrific accident one night that leaves her brother’s beautiful and popular girlfriend dead. Suffering...
| Author | Tim Wynne-Jones |
| ISBN | 0374374783 |
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...
| Author | Graham Salisbury |
| ISBN | 0440229561 |
Eddy Okana lies about his age and joins the Army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers.
Then the Army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American...
| Author | Debra Garfinkle |
| ISBN | 0142407828 |
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,...
| Author | Barbara Haworth-Attard |
| ISBN | 0805077901 |
My fingers search the cardboard container, but I’ve finished the fries. I squirt ketchup on my fingers and lick it off. I’m never full. I think it was one of the reasons I had to leave, or, rather, my mother kicked me out. Jenna’s a runaway, but I’m a throwaway. Tossed out. Like garbage.
Keep...
| Author | Geert Spillebeen |
| ISBN | 0618800352 |
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...
| Author | David Klass |
| ISBN | 0374399506 |
A taut psychological thriller for teens
Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But after six years, Troy’s sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison....
| Author | Suzanne Marie Phillips |
| ISBN | 0316014133 |
Chloe Doe chronicles a 17-year-old girl's tumultuous path to becoming a prostitute and her ultimate transformation back into mainstream society. During her therapy at Madeline Parker Institute for Girls, Chloe slowly reveals aspects of her painful past--the stepfather who abused her sister,...
| Author | Tammar Stein |
| ISBN | 0375830235 |
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...
| Author | Alfred C. Martino |
| ISBN | 0547564244 |
I AM SO FREAKING MAD RIGHT NOW!
Okay, enough all caps. But seriously, I am mad. I was gifted this audiobook by SYNC during the summer. It isn't a story subject I would normally find interesting nor would I choose to spend my time reading/listening to, but it was free and I did find it interesting....
| Author | Sonia Levitin |
| ISBN | 0525473971 |
How much can you trust the government? How much power should you give them? How does one define “best interest”? Levitin’s book makes the reader think about issues such as these. It is set in a future-world where the locations in the former United States have been renamed, and all the inhabitants...
| Author | Adele Griffin |
| ISBN | 0399237836 |
Once, Jane was the big sister, teaching Lily to play make believe and protecting her from thunderstorms. But then Lily grew up. She started making friends and dating boys, while Jane wanted to go on playing make believe forever. For Jane, the line between fantasy and reality had always blurred, whereas...
| Author | Tamra Wight |
| ISBN | 1934031860 |
Cooper thought living at a campground would be cool. But ever since his parents bought the lakeside campground, he's had more chores and less time to explore. And as if babysitting his little sister and cleaning the bathrooms weren't bad enough, his ex-friend Roy has chosen him as this summer's bullying...
| Author | Melissa Lion |
| ISBN | 0375839542 |
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...
| Author | Maria Padian |
| ISBN | 0375865802 |
At Maquoit High School, Tom Bouchard has it made: captain and star of the soccer team, boyfriend to one of the prettiest, most popular girls, and third in his class, likely to have his pick of any college, if he ever bothers filling out his applications. But life in his idyllic small Maine town quickly gets...
| Author | Jaime Adoff |
| ISBN | 0142404578 |
During one day at school, the paths of four teens will cross in ways they never imagined. There's Kurt, the "freek" who tries desperately to escape bullying; Tisha, who doesn't feel she fits in with anyone; Ryan, the football jock who rules the hallways while losing control of his life; and Floater, who...
| Author | Lisa Jahn-Clough |
| ISBN | 0618959610 |
All dead. No one survived. All dead.
This morbid chant haunts seventeen-year-old Blue as she trudges through the countryside with just the clothes on her back, heading to her childhood home on the ocean. Something absolutely awful has happened, she knows it, but she doesn’t know what. She...
| Author | Matthue Roth |
| ISBN | 0439691893 |
Matthue Roth's inspired and insightful tale of a punk-rock Orthodox Jew who goes to Hollywood to find her place.
Don't think for a second that you know Hava or her place in the world. Yes, she's an Orthodox Jew. But that doesn't mean she can't rock out. And yes, she has opinions about everything...
| Author | E.E. Richardson |
| ISBN | 0385732635 |
Bryan was 10 when his brother, Adam, just . . . disappeared. That was five years ago, and now Bryan is the only one who seems to remember what happened.
Until he meets two others with their own unsolved mysteries. It seems that Adam isn’t the first to disappear. Someone or something is after the...
| Author | Jessie Elliot |
| ISBN | 0060595418 |
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...
| Author | Joseph Monninger |
| ISBN | 0452298687 |
Brought together by war, separated by duty, a love story for the ages
Margaret Kennedy lives on a dairy farm in rural Maine. Her husband Thomas—injured in a war overseas—will never be the man he was. When the President signs a bill in support of wounded veterans, Margaret is invited to the...
