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10 best books like The Noah Confessions (Barbara Hall): Red Glass, Harlem Summer, Forbidden, Battle Dress, Darkness Under the Water, The Big Shuffle, Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers, No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting a Life, Eva Underground, The Way He Lived

Red Glass
AuthorLaura Resau
ISBN0385734662
ONE NIGHT SOPHIE and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, 6-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh conditions that the boy is the only survivor. Pedro comes...
Harlem Summer
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
Myers is at his clever best in this witty and action-packed, coming-of-age story of a teenager's summer during the Harlem Renaissance and his run-ins with famous gangsters, writers, and musicians.

It's 1925 and Mark Purvis is a 16-yr-old with a summer to kill. He'd rather jam with his jazz...
Forbidden
AuthorJudy Waite
ISBN0689876424
True Cause is the true cause. Lucky, so lucky. I love you. These are the phrases that fifteen-year-old Elinor has grown up with on the farm where she and her fellow Followers, led by the amazing Howard, live. It is a simple, material-less lifestyle, but Elinor is one of the Chosen, a special group of young...
Battle Dress
AuthorAmy Efaw
ISBN0060279435
Andi Davis is looking for an escape from her disorganized, dysfunctional home life, and West Point seems the only logical way out. Andi figures that given everything she has had to put up with at home, West Point will be a breeze. But nothing could have prepared her for the first six weeks of cadet training,...
Darkness Under the Water
AuthorBeth Kanell
This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.

Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...
The Big Shuffle
AuthorLaura Pedersen
ISBN0345479564
“We’re approaching Cat in the Hat level chaos and no one’s even had breakfast yet.”

When the death of her father leaves her mother bereft and incapacitated, card shark Hallie Palmer returns home from college to raise Hallie’s eight younger siblings. Hallie’s older brother has...
Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers
AuthorBrent Runyon
ISBN0375844465
The cottage on the lake is always the same, but Luke is changing. At thirteen he’s excited. At fourteen he’s cool. At fifteen he’s pissed off. At sixteen he’s in love.

Through four summers’ worth of trips to the emergency room, campfires and house fires, parties and feuds with neighbors,...
No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting a Life
AuthorAn Na
ISBN0061470589
Graduation from high school?

A senior thesis?

A betrayal by someone you love?

A loss of innocence?

The death of a parent?

Losing the family you always wished you had?

Facing a harsh reality?

What's the line that separates childhood from...
Eva Underground
AuthorDandi Daley Mackall
ISBN0152054626
The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott. She has a terrific best friend, she's dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team. So when her widowed dad says it's time for them to move, she's not exactly thrilled. And when he tells her that he intends to move to Communist...
The Way He Lived
AuthorEmily Wing Smith
ISBN0738714046
"It's a testament to Smith's skills that although her central character speaks only through other people's recollections, his identity emerges distinctly by the end of the novel."

--Publishers Weekly, starred review

Winner of the 2009 Utah Book Award (young adult category)

Sometimes...
The Problem with Paradise
AuthorLesley Dahl
ISBN0385733356
Nobody gets why Casey's upset. She's just been informed that she's spending the ENTIRE summer on some deserted tropical island with her father, his new wife, and her two brothers. Her father will study the endangered sea turtle, her brothers will drive her crazy, and Casey's sure she will die of boredom...
The Devil's Paintbox
AuthorVictoria McKernan
ISBN0375837507
When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they're struggling to survive on their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offers an escape – a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world – Aiden knows it's their...
And Then Everything Unraveled
AuthorJennifer Sturman
ISBN0545087228
First there was a disappearance.
Then there was a clue.
Then there was a kiss.
And then...

Delia Truesdale has no idea her life's about to change forever. She's too busy enjoying the California summer. Her Internet tycoon mother, T.K. Truesdale, is out of town, and that means Delia...
Watch for Me by Moonlight
AuthorJacquelyn Mitchard
ISBN1595142770
Mallory and Meredith Brynn are no ordinary twins: born on either side of midnight, one has the power to see into the future, the other into the past.

But supernatural visions can’t keep Merry from falling for the new boy in town, even if the relationship is doomed from the start. The reason?...
Little Black Lies
AuthorTish Cohen
ISBN1606840339
Sara Black is tiptoeing across a fraying tightrope.

As the new eleventh grader at Anton High–the most elite public school in the country–she sticks out like an old VW bus in a parking lot full of shiny BMWs. But being the new kid also brings a certain advantageous anonymity.

In Anton...
The Other Half of Me
AuthorEmily Franklin
JENNY FITZGERALD HAS been outside the huddle, trying to fit in to her sports-obsessed family. The only time she knows the score is when she's holding an egg-carton palette and painting on a canvas, but even then she feels as though something is missing.

Unlike her three younger siblings, Jenny...
Skin Deep
AuthorE.M. Crane
ISBN0385734794
If all the world’s a stage, Andrea Anderson is sitting in the audience. High school has its predictable heroes, heroines, villains, and plotlines, and Andrea has no problem guessing how each drama will turn out. She is, after all, a professional spectator. In the social hierarchy she is a Nothing,...
Slumming
AuthorKristen D. Randle
ISBN0060010223
Everybody has two eyes and a nose and a mouth. What makes some people beautiful and some people not?

Nikki never imagined that this offhand thought would change the course of her senior year forever. But when she poses the question to her best friends, Alicia and Sam, Alicia is suddenly inspired,...
The Wolf
AuthorSteven Herrick
ISBN1932425756
One day, I'll find the wolf.
Face to face,
we'll see each other across Wolli Creek
and he'll know I've been waiting,
searching for him all my life.

Jake's dad saw the wolf before Jake was born. They say wolves don't live in this country, yet in the night Jake hears it howling, long...
Just Like That
AuthorMarsha Qualey
ISBN0803728409
When Hanna breaks up with her boyfriend of almost a year, she knows she's supposed to feel...something. Liberated, maybe? Sad? Instead, there's only one thing she feels for certain: She's in for a pretty dull winter. Well, there is her job in the swimwear department. What better way to spend her time...
A Town Called Dehra
AuthorRuskin Bond
ISBN9780143064
Reading Bond has always been an enthralling ride till the last page. The words come flowing to him like a beautiful river and it sweeps you completely with it. As I read the last word in this book, I feel as if I was with him through his adventures, long walks, tree climbs, river baths like his shadow. My yearning...
Beating Heart: A Ghost Story
AuthorA.M. Jenkins
ISBN0060546077
This house

is mine

and

I am

its beating heart.

She is a ghost: a figure glimpsed from the corner of your eye, a momentary chill, and a memory of secret kisses and hidden passion. He is 17 years old: Evan Calhoun, warm and alive, and ever since moving to this big...
Desert Crossing
AuthorElise Broach
ISBN0805077626
There are some kinds of trouble you never see coming, like those thunderstorms that start from nothing at all. One minute the sky is bright blue and distant. Then, all of a sudden, it's dark and thick with clouds, pressing down right on top of you. The leaves turn silvery and twist in the wind, the air starts...
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