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The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

10 best books like The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls (Julie Schumacher): Radiant Days, The Grooming of Alice, Under the Blood-Red Sun, Zero, Promise the Night, Beneath a Meth Moon, The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer, The Peculiars, Knights of the Hill Country, The Island of Thieves

Radiant Days
AuthorElizabeth Hand
ISBN0670011355
It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene.

It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make...
The Grooming of Alice
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
The summer starts with the girls deciding they need to get in shape for high school. They go running every morning and swear off sweets but Elizabeth seems to be taking the weight loss too seriously. The girls love to take magazine quizzes and go to a seminar on loving their bodies, no matter what the shape...
Under the Blood-Red Sun
AuthorGraham Salisbury
ISBN0553494872
Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to escape poverty.

World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats.

But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese,...
Zero
AuthorTom Leveen
ISBN0375869212
For aspiring artist Amanda Walsh, who only half-jokingly goes by the nickname Zero, the summer before college was supposed to be fun—plain and simple. Hanging out with her best friend Jenn, going to clubs, painting, and counting down the days until her escape. But when must-have scholarship money...
Promise the Night
AuthorMichaela MacColl
Immediately compelling and action-packed, this carefully researched work of historical fiction introduces young readers to the childhood of the famous yet elusive Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo from England to North America. As in her debut novel, Prisoners in the Palace, MacColl propels...
Beneath a Meth Moon
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399252509
Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she’s still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel’s new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain...
The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0440415578
For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day’s an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust—always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly....
The Peculiars
AuthorMaureen Doyle McQuerry
ISBN1419701789
On her 18th birthday, Lena Mattacascar decides to search for her father, who disappeared into the northern wilderness of Scree when Lena was young. Scree is inhabited by Peculiars, people whose unusual characteristics make them unacceptable to modern society. Lena wonders if her father is the source...
Knights of the Hill Country
AuthorTim Tharp
ISBN0375836535
In a small Oklahoma town, one star linebacker must decide what kind of man he wants to be--both on and off the field.
Welcome to Kennisaw--where Friday night high school football ranks right up there with God and country, and sometimes even comes in first. This year, the Kennisaw Knights are going...
The Island of Thieves
AuthorJosh Lacey
ISBN1849392455
Buried treasure. Ruthless gangsters. An ancient clue . . .

Our Captayne took the pinnace ashore and I went with hym and six men also, who were sworne by God to be secret in al they saw. Here we buried five chests filled with gold.

Tom Trelawney was looking for excitement. Now he's found...
Go Big or Go Home
AuthorWill Hobbs
ISBN0060741414
A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota. . . .

Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever!

Fred,...
Jip: His Story
AuthorKatherine Paterson
Jip: His Story, Katherine Paterson
Jip, His Story, is a 1996 children's book, written by American novelist Katherine Paterson. Set in Vermont, during the 1850s, it focuses on a 12-year-old orphan, named Jip, who was abandoned as an infant, and mistaken for a gypsy because of his skin color. Jip...
The Queen of Kentucky
AuthorAlecia Whitaker
ISBN0316125067
Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer's daughter roots and become part of the popular crowd at her small town high school. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new "sophisticated" clothes...
Bad Boy
AuthorDream Jordan
ISBN0312549970
Dream Jordan is back with a follow-up to the acclaimed Hot Girl

Kate is devastated to find herself back in a group home after a peaceful year of living with her loving foster parents, Lynn and Ted. The fantasy life of having the perfect family has come to an abrupt end and Kate's reeling from having...
Sons of the 613
AuthorMichael Rubens
ISBN0547612168
Isaac's parents have abandoned him for a trip to Italy in the final days before his bar mitzvah. And even worse, his hotheaded older brother, Josh, has been left in charge. An undefeated wrestler, MMA fighter, and bar brawler, Josh claims to be a "Son of the 613"—a man obedient to the six hundred...
Candlewax
AuthorC. Bailey Sims
An Ancient Prophecy. A Powerful Relic. An Insatiable Evil. When all three converge, the fate of every living thing will be in peril.

All her life Catherine had hoped to see a fairrier cat. No book, no scroll provided to her by her tutors had ever mentioned this legend, much to her frustration,...
Catch & Release
AuthorBlythe Woolston
ISBN0761377557
I should have died quick. But I didn't. I'm a miracle of modern medicine, only the medicine doesn't get much credit, I notice. People say I'm lucky, or I'm blessed, and then they turn away.

I'm not the only miracle. There's Odd too.

Polly Furnas had The Plan for the future. Get married...
Shackled
AuthorAngela Carling
ISBN1935089544
After shy, quiet Lucy and her family move from their small hometown in Minnesota to Seattle, Washington, she is surprised when Ryan, the most popular boy at school, asks her out. Soon, she is swept up in a whirlwind romance and her naive and trusting nature allows her to fall head over heels in love with...
The Loved and the Lost
AuthorLory S. Kaufman
They are three time travelers desperate to return to 14th-century Verona to reclaim their medieval family s shattered lives. It is a mission fraught with danger and the risk of unexpected consequences for themselves and for their worlds. For all three, it is a matter of the heart. For one, though, it...
Paradise
AuthorJoanna Nadin
ISBN1406324744
Have you ever had someone that you adore broke your heart?

Bill paradise lives in a flat with her mother and half brother,Finn. Her life was a straight path but all that changed when she receives the key to her grandmother's home which is more like a mansion which she has never been in, her mother...
The Encyclopedia of Me
AuthorKaren Rivers
ISBN0545310288
A is for "Tink Aaron-Martin," "Aardvark," and "Amazing" in this wonderful alphabetical novel!

Tink Aaron-Martin has been grounded AGAIN after an adventure with her best friend Freddie Blue Anderson. To make the time pass, she decides to write an encyclopedia of her life from "Aa" (a kind...
Blood Orange Soda
AuthorJames Michael Larranaga
ISBN0991325605
Darius Hunter is a bullied high school freshman. When he drinks Blood Orange Soda to transform into a Vampire and earn respect, he soon learns life as a Vampire has its own challenges.

Set in the future on the rural landscape of St. Cloud, Minnesota where pre-Vampire teens are required by the...
Dead of Night
AuthorLynn Viehl
True love . . . and an undying obsession Catlyn Youngblood has a secret life. Despite being a natural-born vampire hunter like her two older brothers, Cat has fallen for Jesse--an ageless boy from a centuries-old vampire clan. Cat's job cataloguing rare, mystical texts at a bookstore allows her to meet...
The Brass Giant
AuthorBrooke Johnson
ISBN0062387162
Sometimes, even the most unlikely person can change the world

Seventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, tinkering with any machine...
Last Chance
AuthorNorah McClintock
ISBN0439952298
Robyn's scared of dogs—like, really scared. But she agrees to spend her summer working at an animal shelter anyway. (It's a long story.) Robyn soon discovers that many juvenile offenders also volunteer at the shelter—including Nick D'Angelo, a boy from Robyn's past. A boy she hoped to never see...
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