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10 best books like The Patron Saint of Butterflies (Cecilia Galante): Shakespeare's Daughter, Me, the Missing, and the Dead, Sister Wife, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, House of Dance, Converting Kate, Leap of Faith, A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, Safe, The Last Exit to Normal

Shakespeare's Daughter
AuthorPeter W. Hassinger
ISBN0060284676
Susanna Shakespeare finds the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon much too quiet and provincial. She yearns to travel to London to see her father's world of players and poets, and to follow a secret dream of her own. Once Susanna arrives in London, nothing is quite as she expected it to be -- least of all...
Me, the Missing, and the Dead
AuthorJenny Valentine
Me: Lucas Swain: I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy. The Dead: That's...
Sister Wife
AuthorShelley Hrdlitschka
ISBN1551439271
In the isolated rural community of Unity, the people of The Movement live a simple life guided by a set of religious principles and laws that are unique to them. Polygamy is the norm, strict obedience is expected and it is customary for young girls to be assigned to much older husbands.

Celeste...
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
AuthorJosh Berk
ISBN0375956999
Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback. Will can’t hear what’s going on, but he’s a great observer....
House of Dance
AuthorBeth Kephart
ISBN0061429287
Rosie and her mother coexist in the same house as near strangers. Since Rosie's father abandoned them years ago, her mother has accomplished her own disappearing act, spending more time with her boss than with Rosie. Now faced with losing her grandfather too, Rosie begins to visit him every day, traveling...
Converting Kate
AuthorBeckie Weinheimer
ISBN0670061522
Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church. It influenced everything from her homeschooling to her handmade clothes. But ever since her unbelieving father's death last year, she has suspected that there's more to life than memorizing scripture.

Taking advantage of their move to a new town,...
Leap of Faith
AuthorKimberly Brubaker Bradley
ISBN0803731272
Abigail is starting a new middle school, a Catholic school, because she's been expelled from her old one. She's sure that this place will be just the same as the last, and no one will listen to her here either. Even her parents don't seem able to really hear the truth about what happened at the previous school....
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
AuthorDana Reinhardt
ISBN0385746989
Simone’s starting her junior year in high school. Her mom’s a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad’s a political cartoonist, so she’s grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She’s got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And she’s...
Safe
AuthorSusan Shaw
ISBN0525478299
Safe. To Tracy, safe means having Mama close by. Years after her mother's death, Tracy still feels her presence. But the moment Tracy is forced into a car as she is walking home from school one day, safe is ripped away. In the aftermath of an unspeakable crime, thirteen-year-old Tracy must fight her way...
The Last Exit to Normal
AuthorMichael Harmon
ISBN0375940987
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town...
Lola: A Ghost Story
AuthorJ. Torres
ISBN1934964336
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother—a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town... the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating...
The Big Game of Everything
AuthorChris Lynch
ISBN0060740345
You have to love your family. You do, even if you don't, right? You don't have to understand them or play tennis with them, but you have to love them. It's a rule, and it's the kind of rule you don't break unless you're some kind of animal.

My brother happens to be some kind of animal. My sister rides...
Gay America: Struggle for Equality
AuthorLinas Alsenas
ISBN0810994879
Milestones of gay and lesbian life in the United States are brought together in the first-ever nonfiction book published specifically for teens.  Profusely illustrated with archival images, the groundbreaking Gay America reveals how gay men and women have lived, worked, and loved for the past...
Blue Plate Special
AuthorMichelle D. Kwasney
ISBN0811867803
Doomed loves, failed families, nixed dreamssomeone else's leftovers are heaped on our plates the day we come into this world.

Big Macs and pop tunes mask the emptiness as Madeline watches her mom drink away their welfare checks. Until the day Tad, a quirky McDonald's counter boy, asks Madeline...
Peeled
AuthorJoan Bauer
ISBN0399234756
Something's rotten in the heart of apple country! Hildy Biddle dreams of being a journalist. A reporter for her high school newspaper, The Core, she's just waiting for a chance to prove herself. Not content to just cover school issues, Hildy's drawn to the town's big story--the haunted old Ludlow house....
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
AuthorCristina García
ISBN0739365150
Because Yumi Ruíz-Hirsch has grandparents from Japan, Cuba, and Brooklyn, her mother calls her a poster child for the twenty-first century. Yumi would laugh if only her life wasn’t getting as complicated as her heritage. All of a sudden she’s starting eighth grade with a girl who collects tinfoil...
13
AuthorJason Robert Brown
13 Things to Know About 13

1. This book is about a guy named Evan.

2. Three months before his 13th birthday, he has to move from New York City 3. to Appleton, Indiana,

4. where nobody knows him.

5. He's not very happy about it.

6. His mom is kind of nuts.

7....
Frannie in Pieces
AuthorDelia Ephron
ISBN0060747161
What does you in—brain or heart? Frannie asks herself this question when, a week before she turns fifteen, her dad dies, leaving her suddenly deprived of the only human being on planet Earth she feels understands her. Frannie struggles to make sense of a world that no longer seems safe, a world in which...
Trouble
AuthorGary D. Schmidt
ISBN0545074592
A dog, a mountain, and an ancient slave ship are featured in this latest page-turner from a versatile, award-winning author.

Climbing Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, is the goal that Henry sets himself when his brother dies following a car accident. Along with his dog, his best friend,...
Beanball
AuthorGene Fehler
ISBN0618843485
It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever.
In this riveting...
Not Like You
AuthorDeborah Davis
ISBN0618720936
"Starting a new chapter" is how Kayla’s mother, Marilyn, has always referred to their abrupt moves—five in the past two years. But what 15-year-old Kayla hates even more than moving is Marilyn’s drinking. It once landed Kayla in foster care, and she’ll do anything to keep that from happening...
God Is in the Pancakes
AuthorRobin Epstein
ISBN0803733828
Fifteen-year-old Grace Manning is a candy striper in a nursing home, and Mr. Sands is the one patient who makes the job bearable. He keeps up with her sarcasm, teaches her to play poker . . . and one day cheerfully asks her to help him die. At first Grace says no way, but as Mr. Sands's disease progresses, she's...
The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah
AuthorNora Raleigh Baskin
ISBN1416935584

I put my fingers up to my throat and touched the pointy Star of David, my grandmother's necklace, a delicate chain made up of countless tiny links. If I wear this, will people think I am Jewish? Is that what I want to be? Seventh-grader Caroline Weeks has a Jewish mom and a non-Jewish dad. When Caroline's...
The Unnameables
AuthorEllen Booraem
ISBN0152063684
Medford lives on a neat, orderly island called—simply—Island.
     Islanders like names that say exactly what a thing (or a person) is or does. Nothing less.
     Islanders like things (and people) to do what their names say they will. Nothing more.
     In fact, everything...
Do Not Pass Go
AuthorKirkpatrick Hill
ISBN1416914005
Deet's world turns upside down when his father is arrested for drug use. It doesn't seem possible that kind, caring Dad could be a criminal! After all, he only took the pills to stay awake so he could work two jobs. Now what will happen? How will Deet be able to face his classmates? Where will they get money?...
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