The Secret Side of Empty

10 best books like The Secret Side of Empty (Maria E. Andreu): Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse, Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan, Exile, Collide, The Disappearance of Ember Crow, Going Over, Our Own Private Universe, A Poem for Peter, Someone I Used to Know, America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse

Author	Tamera Will Wissinger
ISBN	0547820119

Using a wide variety of poetic forms – quatrains, ballads, iambic meter, rhyming lists, concrete poetry, tercets and free verse –this debut author tells the story of a nine-year-old boy’s day of fishing. Sibling rivalry, the bond between father and son, the excitement – and difficulty --...

Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

Author	Ashley Bryan
ISBN	1481456903

Newbery Honor Book
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book

Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and powerful picture book that contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless...

Exile

Author	Kevin Emerson
ISBN	0062133950

Catherine Summer Carlson knows how to manage bands like a professional - she’s a student at the PopArts Academy at Mount Hope High, where rock legends Allegiance to North got their start. The never-skipping-class Catherine part of her knows, though, that falling for the lead singer of her latest...

Collide

Author

J.R. Lenk

Being bisexual is cool now—unless you're a boy. Or so it seems to invisible fifteen-year-old Hazard James. But when he falls in with bad apple Jesse Wesley, Hazard is suddenly shoved into the spotlight. Jesse and his friends introduce him to the underworld of teenage life: house parties, hangovers,...

The Disappearance of Ember Crow

Author	Ambelin Kwaymullina
ISBN	1921720093

"However this ends, you're probably going to find out some things about me, and they're not nice things. But, Ash, even after you know, do you think you could remember the good? And whatever you end up discovering - try to think of me kindly. If you can."

Ember Crow is missing. To find her friend,...

Going Over

Author	Beth Kephart
ISBN	1452124574

Remember when I told you to read Code Name Verity and you did. You were like OMG, I CRIED, I DIED, IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER. So I want you to trust me again. Going Over is everything I wanted it to be and more. It was a look into the human condition, a Romeo and Juliet set in the 80s with two crazy kids in love on opposite...

Our Own Private Universe

Author	Robin Talley
ISBN	0373211988

Fifteen-year-old Aki Simon has a theory. And it's mostly about sex.

No, it isn't that kind of theory. Aki already knows she's bisexual—even if, until now, it's mostly been in the hypothetical sense. Aki has dated only guys so far, and her best friend, Lori, is the only person who knows she likes...

A Poem for Peter

Author	Andrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN	0425287688

A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.

The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats’s obvious talent, his...

Someone I Used to Know

Author	Patty Blount
ISBN	1492632813

TRIGGER WARNING: Boys will be boys is never an excuse.

It’s been two years since the night that changed Ashley’s life. Two years since she was raped by her brother’s teammate. And a year since she sat in a court and watched as he was given a slap-on-the-wrist sentence. But the years have...

America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Author

Steven M. Gillon

A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America’s Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon.
 
Through the lens of their decades-long friendship...