The Half-Life of Planets
10 best books like The Half-Life of Planets (Emily Franklin): The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The Ship Who Sang, Forget-Her-Nots, The Naughty List, The Snowball Effect, My Invisible Boyfriend, The Alpha Bet, Invisible Girl, The Mosts, A Field Guide for Heartbreakers
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Author | Aimee Bender |
ISBN | 0385501129 |
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s...
Author | Anne McCaffrey |
ISBN | 0345334310 |
It was Thanksgiving, I was out of town, had just gotten ready to head out for dinner when I heard that Anne McCaffrey had passed. It hit me like a punch in the gut. I couldn't quite shake it all evening. What was going on? Sure, I've read her books but she has never been on a list of favorite authors, why was I so...
Something — some power — is blooming inside Laurel. She can use flowers to do things. Like bringing back lost memories. Or helping her friends ace tests. Or making people fall in love.
Laurel suspects her newfound ability has something to do with an ancient family secret, one that her mother...
Author | Suzanne Young |
ISBN | 1595142789 |
As if being a purrfect cheerleader isn't enough responsibility! Tessa Crimson's the sweet and spunky leader of the SOS (Society of Smitten Kittens), a cheer squad-turned-spy society dedicated to bringing dastardly boyfriends to justice, one cheater at a time. Boyfriend-busting wouldn't be so...
Author | Holly Nicole Hoxter |
ISBN | 0061755710 |
Lainey Pike can tell you everything you need to know about the people in her family just by letting you know how they died. Her reckless stepfather drove his motorcycle off the highway and caused the biggest traffic jam in years. Her long-suffering grandmother lived through cancer and a heart attack...
Author | Susie Day |
ISBN | 0545073545 |
Heidi has the perfect solution to her popularity problems - a fake boyfriend. She's even made him an Internet profile that makes him look like a motorcycle-riding, poetry reading bad boy. *swoon* Heidi's friends are so impressed they start emailing Heidi's fake boyfriend with their problems . . . including...
Author | Stephanie Hale |
ISBN | 0738715743 |
Some teenagers use drugs or sex to escape overbearing parents. I used books. All my life my mother has been hovering over me, afraid to let me experience anything. So I got really good grades, graduated from high school when I was sixteen, and escaped to a new life--my own life--at college. To jump-start...
Author | Mary Hanlon Stone |
ISBN | 0399252495 |
When poor Boston girl Stephanie is abandoned by her abusive mother and taken in by Annie's Beverly Hills family, she feels anything but home. Her dark complexion and accent stick out like a sore thumb in the golden-hued world of blondes and extravagance. These are girls who seem to live life in fastforward,...
Author | Melissa Senate |
ISBN | 0385733038 |
Madeline finished freshman year at Freeport Academy just as invisible as when she started. But after a summer in Italy with her sophisticated aunt, she returned as a sophomore with cool clothes, European attitude, and a hot new boyfriend, Thom.
Maddie's part of the in crowd . . . The Mosts....
A Field Guide for Heartbreakers
Author | Kristen Tracy |
ISBN | 1423127188 |
Best friends Dessy and Veronica arrive in Europe with wildly different plans. Dessy hopes to heal her newly broken heart by diving into the creative writing workshop that brought the girls to Prague. Veronica’s plan, meanwhile, is to conquer as many hot-dudes as possible in one month—and...
I Now Pronounce You Someone Else
Author | Erin McCahan |
ISBN | 0545088186 |
Here Comes the Bride If She Can Pass Chemistry.Eighteen-year-old Bronwen Oliver has a secret: She's really Phoebe, the lost daughter of the loving Lilywhite family. That's the only way to explain her image-obsessed mother; a kind but distant stepfather; and a brother with a small personality complex....
Author | Abby McDonald |
ISBN | 0763649562 |
Three unlikely allies team up for a night of rebellion, romance, and revenge in a high-stakes dramedy from acclaimed young author Abby McDonald.
They’ve spent years at the same high school without speaking a word to one another, but that’s all about to change. Popular Bliss was having...