The Night My Sister Went Missing
10 best books like The Night My Sister Went Missing (Carol Plum-Ucci): The Rag and Bone Shop, Sloth, Claiming Georgia Tate, Counterfeit Son, The Long Night of Leo and Bree, Welcome to Tranquility, Vol. 1, Capote in Kansas, When She Hollers, Contents Under Pressure, Crunch Time
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0440229715 |
Terse and terrifying, this final book from Cormier will leave a lasting impression. Jason, almost 13, is a shy, ineffectual child, who takes being bullied as a matter of course--but if he sees someone else being pushed around, he may strike back. When the seven-year-old girl who lives next door is murdered,...
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1401203663 |
Troubled teenager Miguel Torres has had it with life. The only alternative he sees is to willfully slip into a coma. But one year later, Miguel becomes a walking urban legend after he wakes up virtually unchanged -- except for his sloth-like pace. Soon, a haunted lemon orchard, the mysterious goat man,...
| Author | Gigi Amateau |
| ISBN | 0763633119 |
1. Author's Background
Gigi Amateau wrote this novel, because she needed a way to express herself. Georgia Tate’s character is based off of Gigi. Each of the characters go through some of the same obstacles.
2. Literary Time Period
This novel was written in modern times. This book...
| Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
| ISBN | 0142301477 |
Cameron Miller is the son of a murderer. All he has ever known is the stench of the locked cellar, where he can hear the blows and cries and his father's torrent of terror and abuse. Then a miracle happens: his father is killed in a police shootout. In the aftermath, Cameron grabs his one chance for a normal...
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 0689863357 |
NOBODY SHOULD HAVE A NIGHT LIKE THIS. 8:30 P.M.: It's been four years since Michelle was killed. Leo can't stand to be at home with his mom -- she's crazy with rage. He's got anger of his own and pictures of his dead sister he can't get out of his head. 9:00 P.M.: Bree parks her mom's car and locks the doors. She's...
| Author | Gail Simone |
| ISBN | 1401215165 |
Tranquility is like any other small town in America, except for one fundamental difference--it's the town where super-powered beings go in order to retire and raise families. From the Golden Age to the Modern Age, heroes and villains alike reside in Tranquility and it creates a unique blend of personalities...
| Author | Ande Parks |
| ISBN | 1932664297 |
Murder. Not an intricately plotted "whodunit" or fiery passionate fury. But dirty, sad, disturbing actions from real people. That's what Truman Capote decided to use for IN COLD BLOOD—his bold experiment in the realm of the non-fiction "novel." Following in that legacy is CAPOTE IN KANSAS, a fictionalized...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0590467158 |
This novel covers one day in the life of a girl who is being sexually abused by her adoptive father. Voigt shows well the manipulation, the mother who refuses to see what is happening, and the teacher who refuses to let Tish tell. She shows the jumbled thoughts of the victim, the way the victim uses all the...
| Author | Lara Deloza |
| ISBN | 0440237874 |
A fresh, honest look at the difficult choices and unexpected joys in a girl’s life under pressure.
Lucy Doyle is about to explode. She’s sure her name might as well be Loser because she‘s never, ever been kissed. To make matters worse, nearly all of her friends have left her behind for boys....
Leo, Max, Jane, and Daisy don't have much in common. But when they all blow off their SAT prep in favor of forming their own study group, they actually begin to bond -- over why there's so much competition over a stupid test. And what it really measures, anyway.
Then it's revealed that someone has...
| Author | Jenny Moss |
| ISBN | 0802721931 |
Reimagining the days surrounding this unforgettable event in history, readers are brought back to 1986 as the astronauts prepare for the Challenger mission, and Christa McAullife trains to be the first teacher in space. When a teen named Annie meets Christa, she is fascinated by Christa's courage....
| Author | Shawn Levy |
| ISBN | 0385498578 |
It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes,...
| Author | Olivier Legrand |
| ISBN | 1608878783 |
Based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, The Baker Street Four provides an inside look behind the infamous Baker Street Irregulars.
Billy, Charlie, and Tom are inseparable, and for good reason. Filled with con men and scoundrels, London’s East End is not easily survived alone....
| Author | Nicola Upson |
| ISBN | 0571246281 |
Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine's novel, A Shilling for Candles, and Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve...
| Author | Kerry Cohen |
| ISBN | 1416914250 |
Easy. At the ripe young age of fourteen Jessica has discovered that getting the attention she wants is just that—easy. It’s not the attention of a divorced mother who spends all of her time grieving over a broken marriage. Nor is it that of a father with a new girlfriend who’s moving on with his life....
The Social Climber's Guide to High School
| Author | Robyn Schneider |
| ISBN | 1416934278 |
THE ART OF THE CLIMB Meet the Social Climber. Charming to the masses, fully intriguing, she is nothing if not unique and confident. Call her a rising star, a fashion-forward thinker, just don't mistake her for the (let's admit it) arrogant and awful It Girl. The SC is far superior. She is the girl everyone...
| Author | Pamela Todd |
| ISBN | 1416954945 |
When her family falls apart, fourteen-year-old Zoe feels like her whole world is going to pieces. Zoe's mother takes her kids away from their father, a fisherman who ships out to Alaska, and moves them to a run-down farmhouse she's inherited in the Midwest. Zoe's stuck -- in more ways than one. Surrounded...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0618269193 |
A brutal car accident that claimed the life of her best friend has left seventeen-year-old Catherine in a state of shock and severe depression. She longs to move forward with her life, but feels she can’t until she is somehow assured of her friend’s forgiveness. On a Christmas visit to her grandmother...
| Author | Barbara Shoup |
| ISBN | 0738712272 |
With high school mercifully drawing to a close, Emma's only question is, "What next? And can it please be completely unlike what happened before?" Then one lucky little lotto ticket seems to give the answer-or does it? Everything You Want is a story about what happens to an average family when money is...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440419883 |
Jenny Jakes and her mother, a famous mystery writer, travel to San Antonio to see their cousin, Arnold Harmony, who's made his fortune in the chocolate business. Harmony, an eccentric millionaire, wants his will read publicly before he dies; since everyone wants a piece of the pie, this announcement...
