The Opposite of Chocolate

6 best books like The Opposite of Chocolate (Julie Bertagna): The Great Gilly Hopkins, Girls of Paper and Fire, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Wicked Fox, Girl, Stolen, Coram Boy

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Author	Katherine Paterson
ISBN	0435124773

Watch out world!
The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful...

Girls of Paper and Fire

Author	Natasha Ngan
ISBN	0316561363

Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most demeaning. This year, there's a ninth. And instead of paper, she's made of fire.

In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest...

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Author	Lynne Truss
ISBN	1592402038

In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...

Wicked Fox

Author	Kat Cho
ISBN	1984812343

A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul.

Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret--she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern...

Girl, Stolen

Author	April Henry
ISBN	0805090053

Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of the car while her stepmom fills a prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, the car is being stolen.

Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne and once he finds out that not only does she have pneumonia,...

Coram Boy

Author	Jamila Gavin
ISBN	1405212829

Eighteenth-century England is the setting for Jamila Gavin's sweeping saga of growing-up, struggle, tradition and corruption. From an acorn of an idea about a real-life good Samaritan of yesteryear, the author has crafted a satisfying, if occasionally painful, novel that spans the lives of several...