The Divorce Express
10 best books like The Divorce Express (Paula Danziger): Magic in the Park, Saturday, the Twelfth of October, The Against Taffy Sinclair Club, Three Lives to Live, Seventeen and In-Between, Friends for Life, Remembering the Good Times, Slam Book, Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate, My Brother Made Me Do It
Uncritical kids bond over strange happenings (tress move, the earth opens and cages them in frozen grass, a 'bird man' speaks of the park as if he's been there for centuries) in their park (in Brooklyn, I think it's Prospect Park). During their investigations, they get turned into birds, etc...
My...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0440995922 |
This was one of my favorite books as a kid. Was thrilled to discover it is still a good book when I read it as an adult. Zan, the protagonist, is transported back in time to a (presumed) prehistoric tribe. Zan's time with these people is a well written comming of age story. We never do learn who exactly the tribe...
| Author | Betsy Haynes |
| ISBN | 0553154133 |
Betsy Haynes treads on the heels of Judy Blume and Paula Danziger for this one. Jana Morgan a neurotic , over dramatic preteen leads a club against a snooty, beautiful classmate Taffy ( which we’re never quite sure is ever justified. ) When Taffy develops you-know-whats that’s the last straw. The...
| Author | Anne Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0316526282 |
I FOUND IT!
For years, I have thought about this book from time to time. I vividly recalled reading a really good book, narrated by a girl living with her grandmother and involving time travel down a laundry chute. I had no idea what the title was or who the author was, so I despaired of ever finding...
| Author | Barthe DeClements |
| ISBN | 0140364757 |
For those of you who thought Twilight was the only book featuring a love triangle that takes place in Forks, Washington (sort of). Seriously, I read half of this loosely connected series when I was the original age of the protagonist (ten) and never quite caught up to the ones when she's a former fat kid....
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
This was not a win, but I consider it totally my own fault, as practically everybody said it wasn't half as good as the sequel. I don't even really *have* an inner completist to blame, so not too sure why I didn't go straight to that. I'm sure this would have read a lot better when first published, but now it's...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0440973392 |
How well do we know our best friends?
They were the best of friends. Sixteen-year-old Buck Mendenhall first met Kate Lucas the summer before seventh grade. In eighth grade they made friends with the brilliant and wealthy newcomer, Trav Kirby. They didn't seem to need anyone else. Mostly they...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590418386 |
Slam books are of course the 80s/90s version of the burn book made famous in Tina Fey's "Mean Girls". A book put together my adolescent teenage girls with a lot of hormones and aggression and a need to bitch about their peers. I read this book in grade eight and still remember it 13 years later because I skipped...
Dear Lovey Hart,
I am desperate. I love a man old enough to be my father. I worship him from afar. Do you think there is any hope for a relationship between us?
G.C.
Dear G.C.,
Not unless he wants to adopt you.
Chip is cute. He is also the editor of the high school newspaper. So...
| Author | Peg Kehret |
| ISBN | 0671034197 |
Oh, BRRRRROTHER!
Hi. I'm Julie Welsh. My nine-year-old brother is always cooking up schemes...and I get blamed. Because I'm older. Eleven, to be exact. But Frankie has his good points too, as I told Mrs. Kaplan, my 89-year-ald pen pal, who lives in Kansas. I write Mrs. Kaplan about everything. Even...
| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0064470350 |
Erick knows the family code: "Family is first. Toe the line. Fit in." At Seaville High his life is tame, predictable - hanging out with his girlfriend, Dill, and his pal Jack. Then Erick falls in love with Nicki Marr. Nicki's sort of scary. She's 17 going on 25. Every word she says, every move she makes, seems...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0765353490 |
Eighteen-year-old Sam has always been jealous of his younger brother, Humphrey, the famous "wonder child" pianist. But now that Humphrey is fifteen, the one-time child prodigy isn't able to get any more bookings. Sam's mother refuses to accept that Humphrey's career is over and devises a scheme to...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689806574 |
From the moment she set eyes on the three Foster kids, Darcy knew being their baby-sitter would be no picnic. But the pay was twice her usual rate, and the job was only for a few hours a day - surely an experienced baby-sitter like her could handle it.
But Darcy hadn't counted on the mysterious things...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0671019287 |
Here are somethings I noticed/remembered/liked/disliked about this book.
Let's see...
Noticed
1] Again this book isn't really about the murder as it is about getting to know the characters more and then there's this horrible accident.
2] Bubba is not a good best...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689853815 |
"One of the most feared of a witch's powers is that of the evil eye..."
After throwing Mrs. Tuggle's evil glass eye into the creek, Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, anticipate a soothing summer. But when Lynn notices some strange-looking purple plants growing down by the creek, she begins to worry....
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
| Author | Natalie Babbitt |
| ISBN | 0374422389 |
When the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the crew were swallowed, too. For thirty years the captain's widow, Geneva Reade, has waited, certain that her husband will send her a message from the bottom of the sea. But someone else is waiting, too, and watching her, a man called...
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0553274163 |
Predictions ...
Slam books are the newest craze at Sweet Valley High. They're do-it-yourself books of lists and predictions about everyone in school. They start out as fun but soon stir up big trouble.
First, Jeffrey French, Elizabeth Wakefield's boyfriend, gets paired up with...
| Author | Liz Berry |
| ISBN | 0954886402 |
'No more exams. No more boring holiday work. Just two blissful weeks painting in the country - then, art college at last. Just paint, paint, paint!'
Cathy Harlow is a gifted painter. She is seventeen and three glorious years at art college stretch blissfully ahead of her.
But when she...
