Tripping
10 best books like Tripping (Heather Waldorf): Sidescrollers, Fault Line, The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media, The Sweet Life of Stella Madison, The Death of Jayson Porter, Scarlet, Book 1, Samurai Shortstop, I Love Him to Pieces, All About Vee, Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about The Grapes of Wrath
| Author | Matthew Loux |
| ISBN | 1932664505 |
Brian, Brad and Matt are best described as lovable perpetual losers. They're good guys who just lack direction and are all too happy to be enjoying that lazy time after high school. Their favorite thing to do in life is to play video games, eat junk food and kick around the suburban town they live in. All...
| Author | Janet Tashjian |
| ISBN | 0805080635 |
A hard-hitting novel that breaks open the gritty world of teen relationship abuse
Seventeen-year-old Becky Martin dreams of being a stand-up comic. She also craves the affection of a boyfriend. When attractive Kip, a rising star in the San Francisco comedy club scene, comes into Becky's...
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
| Author | Brooke Gladstone |
| ISBN | 0393077799 |
Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern media. This brilliant radio personality now bursts onto the page as an illustrated character in vivid comics drawn by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld. The cartoon...
The Sweet Life of Stella Madison
| Author | Lara Deloza |
| ISBN | 0385731469 |
It's not easy being the daughter of a famous chef and a resteraunt owner when your idea of a great meal is the kind that's served through via a drive-through window. When Stella Madison's food-loving parents help her land a summer job at the local newspaper, there’s only one catch: she’s expected...
| Author | Jaime Adoff |
| ISBN | 1423106911 |
Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even...
| Author | Brian Michael Bendis |
| ISBN | 0785152512 |
THE AWARD WINNING, BEST SELLING POWERHOUSE CREATIVE TEAM BEHIND DAREDEVIL, HALO, AND THE AVENGERS UNLEASH THEIR BOLDEST PROJECT YET! SCARLET!
This is the comic experience of the year! The first creator-owned series by one of the most successful teams in all of modern comics.
Scarlet...
| Author | Alan Gratz |
| ISBN | 0803730756 |
Tokyo, 1890. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of boarding school, and must prove himself to make the team in a new sport called besuboru. But he grieves for his uncle, a samurai who sacrificed himself for his beliefs, at a time when most of Japan is eager to shed ancient traditions. It’s only...
| Author | Evonne Tsang |
| ISBN | 0761360042 |
Can love survive the zombie apocalypse? Maybe Dicey's first chance at a real relationship was dead from the start. She's the star of her high school baseball team, and Jack's the star of the science program. Her idea of a study session includes sleeping in the sun, and his idea of a good game involves dungeons...
| Author | C. Leigh Purtill |
| ISBN | 1595141804 |
Veronica May ("Big Vee") is a bubbly, gorgeous, confident, eighteen-year-old theater actress from Chester, Arizona. She is also two hundred pounds. She puts off college, her life, and her questions about her mother's death twelve years earlier to care for her widowed father. Then Daddy announces...
| Author | Steven Goldman |
| ISBN | 1599902710 |
Mitchell Wells may not survive eleventh grade. He really only has one friend, his best friend, David. His normally decent grade point average is in limbo due to a slightly violent, somewhat inappropriate claymation film. And girls . . . well, does hanging out with his sister count?
When David...
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 1580893449 |
This biography of American composer, pianist, and conductor Leonard Bernstein takes readers from his childhood in Boston to his spectacular professional conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Illustrated with archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection...
| Author | Allan Stratton |
| ISBN | 0061451126 |
Life’s not easy for Sami Sabiri, especially since his dad stuck him at a private boys’ school where he’s the only Muslim kid. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse.
When Sami catches his father in a lie, he gets suspicious. Unfortunately, he’s not the only one. In a whirlwind,...
| Author | Diane Les Becquets |
| ISBN | 1582346747 |
It’s the summer before Lucy’s senior year in high school, and life in her sleepy Louisiana town is about to be turned upside down. Her mama’s flirting with the dark stranger who runs the art gallery, her best friends Mary Jordan and Evie have boys on the brain, the drama teacher is sparking some powerful...
| Author | Peter Gould |
| ISBN | 0374384835 |
Sixteen-year-old Victor, a thoughtful loner who tries to live his life “under the radar,” wants to test out the saying “You have to be naked to write.” When he sneaks off with an old Royal typewriter to his uncle’s cabin deep in the Vermont woods and strips off his clothes, he expects Thoreau-like...
| Author | Brian Ralph |
| ISBN | 1770460551 |
You wake up in the rubble and see a ragged, desperate one-armed man greeting you. He takes you underground to a safe space, feeds you, offers you a place to sleep, and then announces that he'll take the first watch. It's not long before the peril of the jagged landscape has located you and your newfound protector...
| Author | Julian Beever |
| ISBN | 1554076617 |
Fascinating pavement chalk art by a master of the craft.
The pavement chalk artist is a master of art, perspective, creativity and performance. Julian Beever is one such extraordinary master.
More than just traditional flat drawings, the works Beever creates are uniquely three-dimensional...
| Author | Marina Budhos |
| ISBN | 1416903526 |
Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school, sharing frappés and complaining about the other kids. But there’s one big difference:...
| Author | Beth Goobie |
| ISBN | 1551435608 |
Sophie is in a lot of trouble. She is on probation for stealing and is doing poorly at school. Her mom doesn't really talk to her, and the other adults in her life are pressuring Sophie to talk about her bruises. Sophie worries that if she tells, she will be sent to live in a group home. Her friend Jujube is the...
| Author | Pamela Todd |
| ISBN | 1416954945 |
When her family falls apart, fourteen-year-old Zoe feels like her whole world is going to pieces. Zoe's mother takes her kids away from their father, a fisherman who ships out to Alaska, and moves them to a run-down farmhouse she's inherited in the Midwest. Zoe's stuck -- in more ways than one. Surrounded...
April and Esme: Tooth Fairies
| Author | Bob Graham |
| ISBN | 0763646830 |
Two young tooth fairies make their first lost-tooth collection in Bob Graham's warm, whimsical tale.
A Junior Library Guild Selection. April Underhill, seven-year-old tooth fairy, gets a call on her cell phone. This is it! Her first tooth collection. April and her little sister, Esme, must...
Thor the Mighty Avenger, Vol. 1
| Author | Roger Langridge |
| ISBN | 0785141219 |
He's banished, he's mad, and he wants to FIGHT. Roger Langridge (Muppet Show, Eisner and Harvey Award nominee) and Chris Samnee (Siege: Embedded, The Mighty) re-imagine the God of Thunder in Thor the Mighty Avenger! THRILL as he battles robots the size of cities! GASP as he tames the mightiest sea creatures!...
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
| Author | Sue Macy |
| ISBN | 1426307624 |
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used...
The Zodiac Killer: Terror and Mystery
| Author | Brenda Haugen |
| ISBN | 0756543576 |
This is my 9th book for the YALSA Best Books reading challenge. This yet again was a little out of my comfort zone. (But that is particularly why I was reading this one.)
This is a non-fiction book about a serial killer. I am not usually one for "true crime" and the Law and Order type of shows are not...
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590444298 |
Another great book by Gordon Korman from the late 80s early 90s. I learned so many things from this book - talking about myself in the first person, writing poetry under pressure, the joy of watching the weather channel. Many a night I spent watching stormfronts with Dana Levenson on the Weather Network....
| Author | Andrew Prentice |
| ISBN | 1849921326 |
Elizabethan London: a teeming city of traders and thieves, courtiers and preachers, riff-raff and quality, cut-throats - and demons. When scrunty Jack the 'Judicious Nipper' picks the wrong pocket at the Globe Theatre, he finds himself mixed up in an altogether more dangerous London than he could...
