The Way He Lived
10 best books like The Way He Lived (Emily Wing Smith): Forbidden, This Is What I Did, Heck Superhero, Chess Rumble, The Hour Between, My Angelica, Love, Lies and Texas Dips, The Heart is Not a Size, The Only True Genius in the Family, A Child's Journey Out of Autism: One Family's Story of Living in Hope and Finding a Cure
| Author | Judy Waite |
| ISBN | 0689876424 |
True Cause is the true cause. Lucky, so lucky. I love you. These are the phrases that fifteen-year-old Elinor has grown up with on the farm where she and her fellow Followers, led by the amazing Howard, live. It is a simple, material-less lifestyle, but Elinor is one of the Chosen, a special group of young...
| Author | Ann Dee Ellis |
| ISBN | 0316013633 |
Imagine if you had witnessed something horrific. Imagine if it had happened to your friend. And imagine if you hadn't done anything to help. That's what it's like to be Logan, an utterly frank, slightly awkward, and extremely loveable outcast enmeshed in a mysterious psychological drama. This story...
| Author | Martine Leavitt |
| ISBN | 1886910944 |
I get the feeling that Leavitt does not really know about comics or what comics a 13-year-old (I think he was supposed to be 13) who loves comics would be familiar with in this day and age. Especially one who is presented as unsheltered and has supposedly been taking care of himself and his mother a long time....
| Author | G. Neri |
| ISBN | 1584302798 |
Three moves is all it takes to change the outcome of the game.
In Marcus's world, battles are fought everyday on the street, at home, and in school. Angered by his sister's death and his father's absence, and pushed to the brink by a bullying classmate, Marcus fights back with his fists.
One...
| Author | Sebastian Stuart |
| ISBN | 1593501269 |
“I love stories about friendship, particularly those in which friendship is recalled under a nostalgic haze...I found the whole thing quite lovely...Stuart knows how to cut the pathos with some sharp wit.”—Daniel Goldin of Boswell Book Company for National Public Radio
When Arthur...
| Author | Carol Lynch Williams |
Fifteen-year-old Sage Oliver is writing a Romance novel-- with a capital R. The book's heroine, Angelica, is Sage's ideal woman-- sensitive, strong, and sexy. There's only one small problem with Sage's novel-- it stinks!
Enter George, Sage's would-be boyfriend and unwilling reader of her Angelica...
Love, Lies and Texas Dips
| Author | Susan McBride |
| ISBN | 0385735200 |
The Debs are back!
Now that her dream of becoming a deb is finally coming true, Laura’s confidence is at an all-time high. But when she dares to mess with Jo Lynn’s football star boyfriend, Dillon, Laura finds herself at the center of some heinous gossip.
As predicted, becoming...
| Author | Beth Kephart |
| ISBN | 0061470481 |
Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. ...Or are they? When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along with nine other suburban Pennsylvania kids to Anapra, a squatters' village in the heat-flattened border...
The Only True Genius in the Family
| Author | Jennie Nash |
| ISBN | 0425225755 |
From the author of The Last Beach Bungalow a portrait of a family-in all its heartbreaking complexity.
Though she lives in the shadow of her legendary landscape photographer father, and is the mother of a painter whose career is about to take off, Claire has carved out a practical existence...
| Author | Leeann Whiffen |
| ISBN | 1402218389 |
Told with the intensity of a medical thriller, the extraordinary story of how Clay Whiffen and his family conquered autism.
"Leeann Whiffen's fight for her son is a poignant, intimate story of perseverance and love - a reminder to all of us that a mother is the greatest ally a child with autism...
“Brezenoff’s enviable prose captures distinct, compelling characters as they struggle through the often heartbreaking work of becoming adults. Readers will identify with Lily, Noah, and Simon as they try to reconcile their longing for connection with their need to break free.”
—Sara...
| Author | Kristyn Crow |
| ISBN | 0060839511 |
Splish splash
rumba-rumba
bim bam boom!
It's bedtime at the swamp—except somebody's not ready. Somebody's still splashing in the water and the mud.
Is there a monster on the loose?
Kristyn Crow has taken every child's worst nightmare and transformed...
| Author | Wendy Toliver |
| ISBN | 1416990488 |
When 15-year-old Poppy Browne moves from Boulder, CO, to Pleasant Acres, TX, with her professor mother, she has to attend Calvary High even though she's not Baptist. She makes friends with the popular girls and has a date for the Sadie Hawkins dance. Poppy gets caught in an ex-BFF rivalry between her...
The Loser's Guide to Life and Love
| Author | Ann Edwards Cannon |
| ISBN | 0061128465 |
Ordinary, boring Ed works a loser summer job at Reel Life Movies, where he doesn't even have his own name tag. He's stuck with "Sergio." Ed's only consolations are his two best friends. Shelving DVDs isn't so mind-numbingly dull with Scout cracking jokes, and after hours Ed hangs out with the superbrain,...
Alt Cover: ASIN: B00MS53ZRA
High school senior Olivia Winging gave up her love of photography when she gave up her boyfriend, Trevor Youngblood, a year and a half ago. She broke things off with Trevor because her mom married his dad, and dating your step-brother? Creepy.
Livvy hasn’t...
Welcome to Stalk Lake City
| Author | Sheralyn Pratt |
| ISBN | 0974333182 |
Deciding to go "off grid" for a while, Rhea Jensen can think of no better place to disappear than Utah. She settles into a quiet Mormon lifestyleunless you count the skydiving, racecar driving, mountain climbing, and overly obsessive workouts. But when her best friend, Kay, tips her off to a stalking...
| Author | Becca Wilhite |
| ISBN | 1606410318 |
Seventeen-year-old Leigh Mason is not sure she's ready to share her mom, her bedroom, and her little sisters with her new stepsister, Betsy. And she's definitely not ready to share her best friend, who happens to be a boy! Coping with a blended family is not easy for either Leigh or Betsy, especially during...
| Author | Shawn Klomparens |
| ISBN | 0385342004 |
Welcome to Jessica's world...
When Jessica Zorich met a tall, charismatic artist at a San Francisco party, her life had been all about coping: with a baffling and dangerous world, with a mostly inane job, and with a sweet but meandering relationship with her upstairs neighbor. But Josh Hadden...
That Went Well: Adventures in Caring for My Sister
| Author | Terrell Harris Dougan |
| ISBN | 1401323294 |
Meet Terrell Dougan's sister, Irene: a woman in her sixties who still believes in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny--but who also enjoys playing those characters for the children at the local hospital; whose favorite outfit, which she'll sneak into whenever Terrell's back is turned, consists of Mickey...
