This Girl Is Different
10 best books like This Girl Is Different (J.J. Johnson): The Babysitter Murders, Dreamland Social Club, The Lipstick Laws, The Juliet Spell, Tris & Izzie, Like Mandarin, Two Moon Princess, Sister Mischief, Illegal, What Can(t) Wait
| Author | Janet Ruth Young |
| ISBN | 1416959440 |
Everyone has disturbing thoughts sometimes. But for seventeen-year-old Dani Solomon, strange thoughts have taken over her life. She loves Alex, the little boy she babysits, more than anything. Then one day she envisions harming him. The images are so gruesome, she can’t get them out of her mind....
| Author | Tara Altebrando |
| ISBN | 0525423257 |
Jane has traveled the world with her father and brother, but it's not until her fractured family-still silently suffering from the loss of Jane's mother many years before-inherits a house and a history in Coney Island that she finally begins to find a home. With the help of a new community of friends,...
| Author | Amy Holder |
| ISBN | 0547363060 |
At Penford High School, Britney Taylor is the queen bee. She dates whomever she likes, rules over her inner circle of friends like Genghis Khan, and can ruin anyone’s life with a snap of perfectly manicured fingers. Just ask the unfortunate few who have crossed her. For April Bowers, Britney is the...
| Author | Douglas Rees |
| ISBN | 0373210396 |
I wanted the role of Juliet more than anything. I studied hard. I gave a great reading for it—even with Bobby checking me out the whole time. I deserved the part.
I didn't get it. So I decided to level the playing field, though I actually might have leveled the whole play. You see, since there aren't...
| Author | Mette Ivie Harrison |
| ISBN | 1606841734 |
A modern retelling of the German fairytale "Tristan and Isolde", Tris and Izzie is about a young witch named Izzie who is dating Mark King, the captain of the basketball team and thinks her life is going swimmingly well. Until -- she makes a love potion for her best friend Brangane and then ends up taking...
| Author | Kirsten Hubbard |
| ISBN | 0385739354 |
It's hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it's not her mother's pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, shameless and utterly carefree. Grace would give...
| Author | Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban |
| ISBN | 1515095282 |
A Spanish Princess
An American Boy
A King set on revenge
An unrequited love
and a disturbing family secret
bring a World to the brink of War
Two Moon Princess is a coming of age story with a touch of romance that takes place in a mythical world in which the medieval kingdoms...
| Author | Laura Goode |
| ISBN | 0763646407 |
A gay suburban hip-hopper freaks out her Christian high school -- and falls in love -- in this righteously funny and totally tender YA debut, for real.
Listen up: You’re about to get rocked by the fiercest, baddest all-girl hip-hop crew in the Twin Cities -- or at least in the wealthy, white,...
| Author | Bettina Restrepo |
| ISBN | 0061953423 |
A promise.
Quinceañera.
A promise that we would be together on my fifteenth birthday . . .
Instead, Nora is on a desperate journey far away from home. When her father leaves their beloved Mexico in search of work, Nora stays behind. She fights to make sense of her loss while living in...
| Author | Ashley Hope Pérez |
| ISBN | 0761361553 |
Marissa has smarts and plenty of promise, but she's marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood--and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college. When her home life becomes unbearable, Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere--and suddenly neither...
| Author | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| ISBN | 1416995854 |
Janie Gorman wants to be normal. The problem with that: she’s not. She’s smart and creative and a little bit funky. She’s also an unwilling player in her parents’ modern-hippy, let’s-live-on-a-goat-farm experiment (regretfully, instigated by a younger, much more enthusiastic Janie)....
| Author | Florence Parry Heide |
| ISBN | 0810959941 |
Long ago I was a young reader growing up in the middle of nowhere (eleven miles from each of the three nearest towns, in fact). I didn't often get to the library, but I had a number of magazines and books thoughtfully delivered by the USPS. One of those magazines, a little digest-sized thing, included The...
| Author | Robert T. Jeschonek |
Sixteen-year-old genius Idea Deity believes that he exists only in the pages of a novel written by a malevolent, omnipotent author . . . and that he will die in chapter 64. Meanwhile, an older teen named Reacher Mirage sings lead vocals for the undercover rock band Youforia . . . a band that exists in Idea’s...
| Author | Steve Watkins |
| ISBN | 0763642509 |
A gripping portrait of a teen’s struggles through grief and abuse - and the miraculous power of animals to heal us.
After her veterinarian dad dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must leave her beloved Maine to live on a North Carolina farm with her hardbitten aunt and a cousin she barely knows....
| Author | Jenny Moss |
| ISBN | 0802721931 |
Reimagining the days surrounding this unforgettable event in history, readers are brought back to 1986 as the astronauts prepare for the Challenger mission, and Christa McAullife trains to be the first teacher in space. When a teen named Annie meets Christa, she is fascinated by Christa's courage....
| Author | Cliff McNish |
| ISBN | 1467709131 |
Savannah Grey needs to keep moving. She doesn't know why, but she can't let herself get tied down by too many people. It's almost like she's being chased by something. And now something strange is happening with her neck, with her throat. Savannah Grey never thought she'd meet someone like Reece, a guy...
| Author | Jackie Morse Kessler |
| ISBN | 0547445288 |
Missy didn’t mean to cut so deep. But after the party where she was humiliated in front of practically everyone in school, who could blame her for wanting some comfort? Sure, most people don’t find comfort in the touch of a razor blade, but Missy always was . . . different.That’s why she was chosen...
| Author | Hilari Bell |
| ISBN | 0547196202 |
In the year 2098 America isn't so different from the USA of today. But, in a post-9/11 security-obssessed world, "secured" doesn't just refer to borders between countries, it also refer to borders between states. Teenagers still think they know everything, but there is no cure for cancer, as Kelsa...
| Author | Elise Allen |
| ISBN | 0547481535 |
Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say. A girl at the very top of the popularity tower. One of the Populazzi. Now, junior year could change everything. Cara’s moving to a new school, and her best friend urges her to seize the moment—with...
| Author | Emily Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0061802204 |
The thing about Hank's new friend Inkling is, he's invisible.
No, not imaginary. Inkling is an invisible bandapat, a creature native only to the Peruvian Woods of Mystery. (Or maybe it is the Ukrainian glaciers. Inkling hardly ever gets his stories straight.)
Now Inkling has found...
| Author | K.J. Wignall |
| ISBN | 1405258608 |
When Will woke up 20 years from the slumber, he remembered the prophecy that will defeat his own kind. He search for the true girl that will soon must be offer to the true owner. But what if a century year old guy will fall in love to a sixteen year old runaway wannabe writer? Can he save his own kind or will suffer...
| Author | Judy Dutton |
| ISBN | 1401323790 |
This is the engaging true story of kids competing in the high-stakes, high-drama world of international science fairs. Every year the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair brings together 1,500 high schoolers from more than 50 countries to compete for over $4 million dollars in prizes...
AAAA!: A FoxTrot Assortment for Non-Adults
| Author | Bill Amend |
| ISBN | 1449423051 |
There's always action in the Fox family. Revel in the sibling rivalry as oldest brother Peter dodges his homework and doesn't stop eating. Paige, the only girl among the siblings, continues her shopaholic, boyfriend-seeking antics. And Jason, the youngest, is geekier than ever, building robots...
The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills
| Author | Joanna Pearson |
| ISBN | 0545197732 |
The Japanese hold a Mogi ceremony for young women coming of age. Latina teenagers get quinceaneras. And Janice Wills of Melva, NC ... has to compete in the Miss Livermush pageant.
Janice loves anthropology--the study of human cultures--and her observations help her identify useful rules...
| Author | Trish Cook |
| ISBN | 1606841408 |
Declan loves death metal--particularly from Finland. And video games--violent ones. And internet porn--any kind, really. He goes to school with Neilly Foster and spends most of his classroom time wondering what it might be like to know her, to talk to her, maybe even to graze against her sweater in...
