The Wish House
10 best books like The Wish House (Celia Rees): After the Moment, Rowan the Strange, This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, Pretty Things, Carpe Diem, Tortilla Sun, Clay, Secrets of Truth and Beauty, Catch, So Lyrical
| Author | Garret Weyr, also Freymann-Weyr |
A new novel by the Printz Honor author Garret Freymann-Weyr, about a boy who discovers what happens when love fails us - or we fail love.
Maia Morland is pretty, only not pretty-pretty. She's smart. She's brave. She's also a self-proclaimed train wreck. Leigh Hunter is smart, popular, and extremely...
| Author | Julie Hearn |
| ISBN | 0192792156 |
It is September 1939 and Rowan Scrivener, 13, is in the fight of his life and it has nothing to do the war between England and Germany and everything to do with the state of his sanity. Rowan has always been a little ‘strange’ but now he is hearing voices in his head. They are getting louder and stronger...
This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
| Author | Aidan Chambers |
| ISBN | 0810970600 |
From the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award and the Carnegie Medal, a work of astonishing intimacy and depth
Using a pillow book as her form, nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn sets out to write out her life for her unborn daughter. What emerges is a portrait of an extraordinary girl, who writes frankly...
Brie is in love with Lancôme Juicy Tubes, Louis Vuitton accessories, and her gay best friend Charlie, who is in love with 1960s pop art, 1980s teen movies, and serial heartbreaker Walker, who has ever only been in love with his VW Bug, until he meets Daisy . . . who is too busy hating everyone to know what...
| Author | Autumn Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0312367929 |
“I’ve got my entire life planned out for the next ten years — including my PhD and Pulitzer Prize,” claims 16-year-old overachiever Vassar Spore, daughter of overachiever parents, who in true overachiever fashion named her after an elite women’s college. Vassar expects her sophomore...
| Author | Jennifer Cervantes |
| ISBN | 0811870154 |
When twelve-year-old Izzy discovers a beat-up baseball marked with the words "Becausemagic" while unpacking in yet another new apartment, she is determined to figure out what it means. What secrets does this old ball have to tell? Her mom certainly isn't sharing anyespecially when it comes to Izzy's...
Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They’re full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O’Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to befriend him—maybe some of their good nature...
| Author | Megan Frazer Blakemore |
| ISBN | 1423117115 |
And the first runner up is... When Dara Cohen was little, she was a bright, shiny star. She was the cutest seven-year-old who ever sang Ella Fitzgerald, and it was no wonder she was crowned Little Miss Maine.
That was then. Now Dara's seventeen and she's not so little anymore. So not little, that...
| Author | Will Leitch |
| ISBN | 1595140697 |
Everything comes easy for Tim Temples. He’s got a sweet summer job, lots of love from the ladies, and parties with his high school buddies. Why does he need to go to college?
Then Tim falls hard for Helena—a worldly and mysterious twenty-two year-old. Their relationship opens his eyes to...
| Author | Trish Cook |
| ISBN | 0451215087 |
A hilarious, endearing debut about a teenage girl's quest to find her long-lost father, who just may be a rock star...
Trace lives smack in the middle of picture-perfect suburban Winnetka, Illinois. But her life is anything but cookie-cutter normal. Her mom, Bebe, is a zillion years younger...
| Author | Jo Edwards |
| ISBN | 1416924922 |
Ryan is not obsessing....
But she does want to lose weight. Ever since she was outted as a "fat girl" at chearleading camp in fifth grade, Ryan's been on a mission to shed more than a few pounds.
Lately she's also on the hunt for a new relationship. Now that her ex- boyfriend is a rock star...
| Author | Mark Schreiber |
| ISBN | 0738710016 |
A 2008 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list nominee! How can Christy Marlowe--an impulsive, wise-cracking horoscope-junkie--be in love with Ben, a well-mannered college freshman who prefers astronomy over astrology? Their fateful first meeting takes place at a plastic surgeon's...
| Author | Edward Bloor |
| ISBN | 0375836357 |
In the summer after 7th grade Martin meets a boy in a dream who will change his life forever. Where did this boy come from? Is he a dream? But how can his dreams be set in London during the Blitz? How can he wake up with a head full of people and facts and events that he certainly didn't know when he went to sleep--but...
| Author | Susan Price |
| ISBN | 0060721979 |
Andrea Mitchell has never felt as if she belongs in the 21st century. She's too fat, too clumsy, and too plain. So when she's offered the chance to take the Time Tube back to the 16th century -- and back to Per, the young Sterkarm warrior she fell in love with once before -- she doesn't hesitate. The lovely,...
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
| Author | Sonya Hartnett |
| ISBN | 0763634166 |
From the brilliant author of THURSDAY'S CHILD and WHAT THE BIRDS SEE comes a mesmerizing tale of a young man fighting his future, a young woman fighting her past, and a mysterious creature who teaches them something about survival.
Ever since Dad went off the deep end and decided he didn't need...
| Author | Amy Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0763613460 |
A daughter discovers her mother's mysterious, shocking secret.
From Montpelier, Vermont, across the country to Venice, California, Nina Lewis and her mother Joyce are always on the move. They own nothing that can't fit in the back of a van, and they never stay very long in any one place. Home...
| Author | Ron Koertge |
| ISBN | 0763626791 |
"A meticulously crafted story of an unexpected friendship." — THE HORN BOOK (starred review)
An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
She's drop-dead gorgeous, has a razor-sharp wit, and is a charter...
| Author | Jason Cockcroft |
| ISBN | 0061255548 |
I can't believe when I finally found Counter Clockwise on Goodreads, barely anyone has read it. I can't begin to describe how sad I am starting to feel. This was my favorite book back in grade 6 and this book was so amazing that I was looking for the next book to come out but it never did!
I was so in love...
| Author | Gustaf Sobin |
| ISBN | 0393321797 |
Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled—the art of stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the truffles—every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence. Since the death of his young wife, Julieta, the truffles have come to represent something far more than a delicacy for...
| Author | Kathy Hepinstall |
| ISBN | 0399149368 |
"Forty million mothers would have followed me out here, if they had known this place existed." Martha's son, Duncan, is the light of her life. After a child is killed at Duncan's school, Martha decides that she must protect him from the world and from the constant, unnameable dangers that plague parents...
| Author | Tania Kindersley |
| ISBN | 0340660252 |
I came to Tania via twitter. I was looking for like minded people and she loves the horses - my how she loves the horses. This led me to her blog which I believe to be a work of wonder, easily the best of its kind - a mildly eccentric sideways look at life from the margins as she tries to catch things she glimpses...
Und nebenan warten die Sterne
| Author | Lori Nelson Spielman |
| ISBN | 3810524719 |
Erika ist eine sehr erfolgreiche Karrierefrau. Eigentlich wollte sie ihre beiden Töchter nach den Ferien mit dem Auto zurück zur Uni bringen, aber ein wichtiger Termin kommt dazwischen. Kristen und Annie sollen den Zug nehmen, doch nur Kristen steigt ein - und verunglückt tödlich. Erika und...
| Author | Isabelle Broom |
| ISBN | 1405925272 |
Holly Wright has had a difficult few years. After her mother's death, she's become expert at keeping people at a distance - including her boyfriend, Rupert.
But when Holly receives an unexpected letter explaining that an aunt she never met has left her a house on the Greek island of Zakynthos,...
| Author | Myron Levoy |
| ISBN | 0064402096 |
When Naomi, a refugee child from Nazi-occupied Paris who acts 'crazy, ' moves into Alan Silverman's building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. They slowly develop a deep and touching friendship "[which] is a joy [in] this warming story with its heart-wrenching ending.
One of the more...
| Author | Kaori Yuki |
| ISBN | 1591169771 |
Born under an evil moon harboring dark secrets, Earl Cain C. Hargreves, the youthful heir of the aristocratic Hargreves family, is a man on a quest to find the truth about his family's past. Written in dark, harrowing episodes, The CAIN Saga chronicles how Cain solves the strange crimes that seem to plague...
