Sun Dog
10 best books like Sun Dog (Monique Roffey): Jumping the Nail, Me, In Between, Class Favorite, Dumped by Popular Demand, Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning, Majix: Notes from a Serious Teen Witch, The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away, Two Steps Forward, Devon Delaney Should Totally Know Better, Tripping Over the Lunch Lady: And Other School Stories
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152413588 |
At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt-leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives. “It’s Bunting’s acknowledgment of the allure of...
| Author | Lauren Baratz-Logsted |
| ISBN | 1416950680 |
Lacey Underhill has what her Dutch grandmother refers to as luxe problemen: luxury problems. But Lacey's problems are very real and they are exactly two: her breasts. Twelve years old and in eighth grade, Lacey has developed faster than everyone else around her. The other girls -- even her own best...
| Author | Taylor Morris |
| ISBN | 1416935983 |
It all started three days after I officially became a woman -- the message of mass destruction arrived. It was February 14, to be exact. Happy Valentine's Day.
Sara Thurman has never considered herself part of the popular crowd - she's got her best friend Arlene and that seems like enough. But...
| Author | P.G. Kain |
| ISBN | 1416935193 |
Dorie Dilts is about to move from California to New Jersey, and instead of seeing this as the worst thing to happen to her in her 13 years, Dorie sees this as a great opportunity--an opportunity to reinvent herself as one of the popular crowd, that is. When she arrives at her new school, she immediately sets...
| Author | Danette Haworth |
| ISBN | 0802797911 |
Violet is happy with things just the way they are in her sleepy, backwoods Florida town. She loves going to the fish fry with her best friend Lottie, and collecting Brain Freeze cups with her good friend Eddie. She loves squeezing into the open trunk of the old cypress tree, looking for alligators in the...
| Author | Douglas Rees |
| ISBN | 0373210175 |
My name is Kestrel.
Kestrel Murphy.
Never call me Susan.
Who ever heard of a witch named Susan?
A year ago, I was on the white-magic side. Lately, I've been leaning toward the black. I blame the universe. What's the point in being a nice little white witch in the universe...
| Author | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| ISBN | 1442432896 |
In the conclusion to the bestselling Secret Language of Girls trilogy, Marylin and Kate find that boys can be just as complicated as friendship.
Marylin knows that, as a middle school cheerleader, she has certain obligations. She has to smile as she walks down the hall, be friends with the right...
| Author | Rachel Cohn |
| ISBN | 1416916512 |
I chose to read this book because I was looking for a good fun read, and the librarian told me this was a great, girly book that I would enjoy.
In this book, we got to meet two sisters named Annabel and Lucy who live in different states from each other. When Annabel finds out she has to spend her summer with...
| Author | Lauren Barnholdt |
| ISBN | 1416980199 |
Devon Delaney cannot believe she's lying again. But the thing is, she couldn't help it. Her new boyfriend, Luke, is talking to his (gorgeous) ex-girlfriend, Bailey Barelli, every single day in mock trial. Devon couldn't just stand by and let him find out that she'd never dated anyone else before. Could...
| Author | Nancy E. Mercado |
| ISBN | 0803728735 |
Do you remember middle school? Are you trying to forget, thank you very much?
Well, these ten short stories will certainly remind young readers of the trials and tribulations of their everyday existence . . . and make them laugh out loud at the same time.
From Angela Johnson's funny...
| Author | Barbara Dee |
| ISBN | 1416961283 |
Zoe Bennett feels lost at her fancy private school.
She's not the star drama queen like her sister, or a brainiac math genius like her brother. Luckily her best friend, Dara, is just as content as Zoe is to stay in the shadows -- or is she? When Dara gets a part in the school musical, Zoe feels...
| Author | M.E. Castle |
| ISBN | 1606842323 |
"Castle’s debut, the first in a planned series, strikes just the right balance of humor and action and is sure to keep young readers turning the pages. Fisher’s struggles to fit in, to relate to girls and to uncover and preserve his true self feel genuine, making him a misfit and unlikely hero worth...
| Author | Hilary McKay |
| ISBN | 0340931116 |
This book rocked. It's a toss-up if I liked this better than Saffy's Angel. That I can even consider the comparison should give you an idea of how very much I enjoyed the book. It even had some great laugh-out-loud moments and excellent hijinks that reminded me so strongly of that first adventure.
I...
Sparks will fly in this hip-hop-hot teen novel that mixes social protest and star-crossed romance, from Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning author Kwame Alexander! He Said, She Said is perfect for fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rachel Vail alike.
He says: Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls...
| Author | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| ISBN | 0938317636 |
"Home isn't just a place, it is also a language."Born in Tijuana, the son of an Anglo woman and a Mexican father, Urrea says that "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language." In these six stories—each wandering beneath different kinds of sky, from the thick Mazatlan starry night to the wide open spaces...
It's never fun when a great summer comes to an end.
Particularly when one argues with one’s adorable, but grossly insensitive, boyfriend the night before school starts. It’s such a terrible fight, Jess doesn’t know—are they broken up? Should she apologize? Too bad Jess is spending...
| Author | Leslie Margolis |
| ISBN | 1599905264 |
Annabelle has tamed the wild boys and catty girls of middle school. Now it's time for her first school dance! A couple of Annabelle's friends already have dates and she would like one, too. Better yet, she finally has a crush on someone-Oliver. The problem? Claire also likes him, and she's called dibs....
| Author | Karen Grigsby Bates |
| ISBN | 0380808900 |
Who killed Ev and why? The three most likely suspects are Ev's competitors -- publishers of the country's other popular black magazines who all had plenty of good reasons to make sure Ev never received his Journalist of the Year award.
With the help of Paul Butler, a fellow journalist and an old...
The Boy Who Saw True: The Time-Honoured Classic of the Paranormal
| Author | Cyril Scott |
| ISBN | 1844131505 |
He asked me if I believed in ghosts.
And I said, yes.
Then he wanted to know if I'd ever seen one, and I said, lots.
'Weren't you afraid?'
'Not when they're nice ghosts,' said I, 'but I don't like nasty ones ...'
'The Boy Who Saw True differs from all the hundreds of books I have read...
| Author | Joanna Trollope |
| ISBN | 0380724081 |
Lifelong friends, now in their sixties, James Mallow, a teacher, and Hugh Hunter, a television personality, are both enjoying happy relationships with women twenty-five years their junior. James's partner of eight years, Kate Bain, appears devoted, though she will not marry him. Hugh's perfect...
The Confessions of Frances Godwin
| Author | Robert Hellenga |
| ISBN | 1620405490 |
The Confessions of Frances Godwin is the fictional memoir of a retired high school Latin teacher looking back on a life of trying to do her best amidst transgressions—starting with her affair with Paul, whom she later marries. Now that Paul is dead and she's retired, Frances Godwin thinks her story...
Three women in love with the same man meet for the first time at his funeral. Can they separate the truth from the lies – and learn to trust again?
When world famous music conductor Leo Bruck dies suddenly, he leaves behind three grieving women and a mass of unanswered questions.
Did...
| Author | Sue Bentley |
| ISBN | 0448449994 |
In this book Abi just at school started a new grade. She made a friend called Sasha,and an enemy called Keera. The thing that made it hard was Keera had friends, they are called Marsha and and Tiwa. At the market place Keera steeled candy. Not long after Mrs. York their teacher wanted to figure out. So after...
Set in early 1970s Detroit, a racially divided city still reeling from its violent riot of 1967, Beautiful Music is the story of one young man’s transformation through music. Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio–loving loner balancing a dysfunctional home life with the sudden harsh realities of...
