The Secret Language of Girls
10 best books like The Secret Language of Girls (Frances O'Roark Dowell): The Melting of Maggie Bean, Boys Are Dogs, The Cupid Chronicles, Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade, No Cream Puffs, Jumping the Nail, Just Another Day in My Insanely Real Life, Me, In Between, Class Favorite, Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning
| Author | Tricia Rayburn |
| ISBN | 1416933484 |
Maggie Bean is a top student, a loyal friend, and has a great sense of humor. But the past year's been kind of rough, what with her dad losing his job and her loads of schoolwork. Maggie's learned to cope by eating chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. So much so, that Maggie is dragged by her aunt to weekly...
| Author | Leslie Margolis |
| ISBN | 1599902214 |
The book that inspired the Disney Channel movie Zapped, starring Zendaya!
When Annabelle returns from summer camp, her life is totally different. She's moving to a new house with her mom's new boyfriend, and that means starting sixth grade at a brand-new school. Birchwood Middle School is...
| Author | Coleen Murtagh Paratore |
| ISBN | 1416908676 |
When the only library in Bramble, Cape Cod, announces it's in danger of closing its doors, the town residents have got to raise BIG money and FAST. Thirteen-year-old Willa Havisham must put her crush on Joey Kennelly on the back burner to save the library, but the question is: How?Willa's best friend,...
Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade
| Author | Denise Vega |
| ISBN | 0316985597 |
Imagine if all your personal thoughts about crushes, fears, enemies, and even kissing practice ended up on the Internet for everyone to read. That's what happens to Erin Swift when her super-secret blog and all of her musings on navigating the treacherous waters of seventh grade--including her feelings...
| Author | Karen Day |
| ISBN | 0375837752 |
MADISON IS NOT your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesn’t use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summer—the first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys’ team. The press call her a star and a trailblazer, but Madison just wants to play ball....
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152413588 |
At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt-leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives. “It’s Bunting’s acknowledgment of the allure of...
| Author | Barbara Dee |
| ISBN | 1416947396 |
Twelve-year-old Cassie has a lot to cope with when her father moves "out of the picture." Her mom's constantly working overtime, her teenage sister's going AWOL, and her little brother seriously needs attention. It's up to Cassie to prevent total chaos at home -- or so she thinks.
She can't...
| Author | Lauren Baratz-Logsted |
| ISBN | 1416950680 |
Lacey Underhill has what her Dutch grandmother refers to as luxe problemen: luxury problems. But Lacey's problems are very real and they are exactly two: her breasts. Twelve years old and in eighth grade, Lacey has developed faster than everyone else around her. The other girls -- even her own best...
| Author | Taylor Morris |
| ISBN | 1416935983 |
It all started three days after I officially became a woman -- the message of mass destruction arrived. It was February 14, to be exact. Happy Valentine's Day.
Sara Thurman has never considered herself part of the popular crowd - she's got her best friend Arlene and that seems like enough. But...
| Author | Danette Haworth |
| ISBN | 0802797911 |
Violet is happy with things just the way they are in her sleepy, backwoods Florida town. She loves going to the fish fry with her best friend Lottie, and collecting Brain Freeze cups with her good friend Eddie. She loves squeezing into the open trunk of the old cypress tree, looking for alligators in the...
| Author | Dori Hillestad Butler |
| ISBN | 0807580953 |
The Truth about Truman School was a total surprise.
I bought the book at the school's Book Fair for two reasons. It was marked $2.50 (and well within my budget) and the back cover said that it was about teens who decide to tell the truth about life in middle school, not the expurgated lies adults...
| Author | Michele Weber Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0385908024 |
Eleven-year-old Calli Gold is the quiet third child in a family of loud overachievers. In fact, the family motto is Be Gold. Calli's sister is on an ice-skating team, and her brother's a basketball star. Her parents are sure she has a hidden gift for something. They just have to figure out what it is! But...
| Author | Phoebe Stone |
| ISBN | 0439802458 |
6th-grader Jessie Lou is deeply, madly, passionately in love with Conrad Parker Smith. Too bad she's a tomboy with only one on-again, off-again friend, and hair so short you can't spit on it. Too bad he's the most popular boy in their small-town school.
But then Conrad hurts his leg and suddenly...
The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney
| Author | Lauren Barnholdt |
| ISBN | 1416935037 |
Mom says karma always comes around to get you, and I guess it's true. Because last summer I was a total liar, and now, right in the middle of Mr. Pritchard's third-period math class, my whole world is about to come crashing down. That's because while Devon was living with her grandmother for the summer,...
| Author | Natasha Friend |
| ISBN | 0439853508 |
I would ideally give this book 2.5 stars since it really does fall somewhere between "it was okay" and "I liked it." This was my least favorite Natasha Friend book probably because it seemed the least realistic to me. I didn't really think there was a lot of character development so Evyn seemed really flat...
| Author | Lauren Myracle |
| ISBN | 0525477845 |
The only thing more exciting than being eleven . . . is turning twelve! Winnie Perry went through a lot when she was eleven, from shifting friendships to her teenage sister’s mood swings. But now that Winnie is twelve—and one step closer to being a teenager herself—there is so much more to deal with....
| Author | Andrea Montalbano |
| ISBN | 0399252150 |
LJ knows her place in the world is on the soccer field. When she?s out there scoring goals, everything?s right. But being a big-shot on the field has started going to her head. She?s been letting her temper get the best of her?both on the field and off, alienating everyone around her. Everyone except Tabitha,...
