The Other Girl
10 best books like The Other Girl (Sarah Miller): In the Name of God, Sun-Kissed Christmas, It's Not All About You, Calma!, Devious, The Haunting of Tabitha Grey, Bang, Bang, You're Dead!, Catch, Cherry Heaven, The Death-Defying Pepper Roux, Hit Squad
Seventeen year-old Nadia is an excellent student, daughter and sister, and above all wants to be the best Muslim she can be. But she's conflicted about her Westernized peers, the economic, social and political struggles of her country, and the war raging in Iraq. When her cousin is arrested by the...
Author | Katherine Applegate |
ISBN | 1416993975 |
All she wants for Christmas…
Summer is headed to the Keys for winter break, but what should be a fun-in-the-sun holiday is becoming unbearable. Summer hasn’t been able to stop thinking about her ex-boyfriend, Austin, since their summer romance fizzled, and she can’t stand seeing him...
It's Not All About You, Calma!
Author | Barry Jonsberg |
ISBN | 1741144841 |
Calma Harrison is in love.
Not just with herself, but also with the handsome checkout guy at Crazi-Cheep.
But when Calma gets a job at Crazi-Cheep, her cynical approach to customer service makes headlines.
And then there's the small matter of the rest of her life, which is fast falling apart:...
Author | Cecily von Ziegesar |
ISBN | 0316073946 |
The ninth engrossing novel in the #1 bestselling It Girl series. Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey never goes looking for trouble; but trouble always seems to find her. What Waverly Academy mischief will Jenny, Tinsley, and Callie stir up now?
It's January, and a new semester at...
The Haunting of Tabitha Grey
Author | Vanessa Curtis |
ISBN | 1405257210 |
Set in a sprawling Victorian manor, a classic ghost story with a stunning twist
I look up at the dark, unblinking eyes of the house and I get the weirdest feeling . . . It's the feeling of being pulled into something and being unable to stop it happening . . .
Tabitha is used to changing...
I was really disappointed with this book because it looked and sounded so promising, and had been on my 'to-read' list for quite a while.
The premise of the novel is intriguing; a mysterious gunman takes a class hostage in a British school. Yes, it's been done before but I thought as it's based...
Author | Will Leitch |
ISBN | 1595140697 |
Everything comes easy for Tim Temples. He’s got a sweet summer job, lots of love from the ladies, and parties with his high school buddies. Why does he need to go to college?
Then Tim falls hard for Helena—a worldly and mysterious twenty-two year-old. Their relationship opens his eyes to...
The gripping sequel to hugely successful THE DIARY OF PELLY D. It?s ten years since the terrible war in the cities that took Kat and Tanka?s parents. A new life in the New Frontier beckons them, far from bullet holes and bomb craters. New Frontier people are building a fresh, liberal society, without the...
Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
ISBN | 0061836656 |
Pepper's fourteenth birthday is a momentous one.
It's the day he's supposed to die.
Everyone seems resigned to it—even Pepper, although he would much prefer to live. But can you sidestep Fate? Jump sideways into a different life? Naïve and trusting, Pepper sets a course through...
Author | Sophie McKenzie |
ISBN | 0857070711 |
Hit Squad by Sophie McKenzie is a very adventurous book. This book is about four teenagers who have had the Medusa gene implanted into them. This gave them psychic abilities. The four teenagers were brought together to work together as a crime-fighting force. This is the sixth book of The Medusa Project...
Author | Kate le Vann |
ISBN | 1853408360 |
Tessa at sixteen, is pretty, but terribly shy and under-confident. Her best friend Matty is much more popular, not to mention more successful with boys. Tessa loves roaming the local parkland and often goes there for walks with the family dog. When developers threaten to destroy this, for the first...
Author | Amy Ehrlich |
ISBN | 0394856937 |
Review: This particular book has all of the classic fairy tales combined into one larger book. Stories like Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Bean Stalk, and many others. This story book has only a few pictures for each story, but the stories all have a little bit of a twist in comparison to the...
Author | Jenny Meyerhoff |
ISBN | 0374326282 |
This year, Essie Green's life is going to be different. She's made the cheerleading squad and caught the eye of the captain of the football team. However, she didn't expect her estranged cousin to join the football team. Micah is instantly branded a freak for praying during games, and Essie doesn't want...
Girl Stays in the Picture
Author | Melissa de la Cruz |
ISBN | 1416927395 |
Devon (one name only) is the most famous singer/actress in the country, and she is on location filming her newest blockbuster in the South of France. While there, she forms a bond with the director’s daughter—the hottest thing in Hollywood since she has recently lost two hundred pounds—who is...
Author | Anne Cassidy |
ISBN | 0439950961 |
This was a quick read - it was only, what, 200 pages? But still, it was so exciting and a bit creepy.
It took the lead character forever to figure out who the sender of the love letters was, which did get a bit irritating, aswell as her lack of evidence and occasional slip-up :/
But still, it hold a valuable...
Author | Chris Higgins |
ISBN | 0340950684 |
you know when you pick up a book and hope for it to be good despite the obvious opposite intuition you're getting and that book actually ends up being good
yeah this book was not it
honestly I wasn't interested by this book but my cousin recommended it to me and it was just the sweetest thing...
Love (and Other Uses for Duct Tape)
Author | Carrie Jones |
ISBN | 0738712574 |
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED AND CAPTIVATE People keep changing who they are & defining themselves by their own choices, and that's cool most of the time, but not all the time. No, it's not cool all the time at all.
Belle is closing in on her last few months of high school...
Author | N.M. Browne |
ISBN | 0747593450 |
Jessica Allendon is bored and Googles her name. Weirdly, she finds another girl, same age, same name, also living in London. They arrange to meet. At the designated time and place, Jess sees the girl, shock registering on both their faces as they realise they look identical. They shake hands and in that...
Before, After, and Somebody In Between
My sympathy fades as Chardonnay twists around to spread her lips in a demented grin. Her long yellow teeth probably haven't seen a toothbrush in months. I take a chance and smile back, and what do I get? A pudgy middle finger jabbed under my nose.
My next thought is: Wow. I may not even survive homeroom.
One...
Author | Sarah Schofield |
ISBN | 1466280638 |
Eliana Davis is no stranger to moving house a lot as her dad is in the army and she has never lived anywhere for more than a few years. She has grown to love her current home in California however, and is devastated to learn that her dad is being posted overseas so her and her mum are going to live with her grandparents...
Author | Linda Green |
ISBN | 0755333403 |
Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell. I DID A BAD THING is dark, funny, wicked and true. Because haven't we all done something bad?
Sarah Roberts used to be good. Then she did something bad. Very bad.
Now, years later, she's living a good life. She works as a local newspaper reporter and lives...