Tru Confessions
10 best books like Tru Confessions (Janet Tashjian): Paisley Hanover Acts Out, Breath, What Would Joey Do?, Are You Alone on Purpose?, Dancing on the Edge, Silent Echoes, As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President!, Crusader, Sink or Swim, How I Survived Being a Girl
| Author | Cameron Tuttle |
| ISBN | 0803732864 |
Always one of the popular kids, sophomore Paisley Hanover gets a rude awakening when she’s booted out of yearbook and into the badlands of drama class. Out of her element but only momentarily out of ideas, Paisley takes action—and an unexpected liking to her drama buddies. The result? An undercover...
Salz is a boy afflicted with cystic fibrosis -- though in the Middle Ages in Saxony no one can identify it as such. Instead he is an outcast, living with his unfeeling father and superstitious brothers in a hovel outside Hameln. His grandmother has kept Salz alive by having him avoid the mead and beer commonly...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0060544031 |
Joey's dad just roared into town on a motorcycle, his mom is chasing her ex-husband away with a broomstick, and his grandma's camped out on the couch behind a plastic shower curtain. What's more, Joey's chihuahua has been dognapped, and his mom insists that he be homeschooled with a mean blind girl and...
| Author | Nancy Werlin |
| ISBN | 0142407771 |
Harry Roth is the bane of Alison shandling’s existence. He’s obnoxious and rude, and thinks nothing of taunting brainy Alison or making comments about her autistic twin brother. Alison tries to ignore him, but since she sees him at school and at synagogue, he’s hard to avoid. then Harry is injured...
| Author | Han Nolan |
| ISBN | 0152058842 |
Miracle McCloy comes from an unusual family: Her father, Dane is a prodigy who published his first book at age thirteen; her grandmother, Gigi, is clairvoyant; and her mother was dead when her "miracle" daughter was pulled from her womb. Having been raised according to a set of mystical rules and beliefs,...
| Author | Carla Jablonski |
| ISBN | 1595140824 |
What happens to a teenage girl who starts hearing voices? The answer is vastly different for two girls living in two different eras. When a “spirit” contacts Lucy Phillips at a séance in nineteenth-century Manhattan, Lucy quickly gains fame as a talented medium who can impart knowledge about...
| Author | Donna Gephart |
| ISBN | 0385734816 |
As if being 12 3/4 isn’t bad enough, Vanessa Rothrock’s mother is running for president and it’s ruining her life. Isn’t it enough that her enormous feet trip her up all the time, even on stage during the school spelling bee? Isn’t it enough that Reginald Trumball, love of Vanessa’s pathetic...
| Author | Edward Bloor |
| ISBN | 0439221609 |
Crusader is not your typical young-adult book. For one thing, it's five hundred ninety-one pages long, and with the intense, dynamic writing style of the ingeniously endowed Edward Bloor, that length makes for a roller coaster ride of impossibly unpredictable twists and turns, red herrings and shocking...
| Author | Laura Dower |
| ISBN | 0786817356 |
Madison Finn is running low on money for summer break so she want's to get a good job to make sure she can go shopping with her friends. So when she goes to her friend's parents cyber cafe shop she finds a bulletin board where she finds a piece of paper saying some people who live close to her want a mother's helper...
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| ISBN | 0060540737 |
How I Survived Being a Girl was my favorite book when I was younger, and I only read it once. So when I found it in my stacks and stacks of books, I had to pick it up again. I scarcely even remembered what it was about, and since I didn't really want to pick up anything too hefty before school started, I just figured...
| Author | Jenny Lombard |
| ISBN | 0399243801 |
A poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything behind and the friendships that help you get through it. Fleeing war-torn Kosovo, ten-year-old Drita and her family move to America with the dream of living a typical American life. But with this hope comes the struggle to adapt and fit in....
| Author | Charise Mericle Harper |
| ISBN | 0618959734 |
Everyone’s favorite Grace is back. And this time she has a dog.
Unfortunately, he’s only made of cardboard and rides a skate board. Grace is determined though to prove to her parents that she is responsible and dependable enough to get a real dog.
Things you learn in this book:
1. Sometimes...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0440229219 |
Newbery Honor Winner Ruth White gives readers an unforgettable story of one girl’s experience growing up with a sister that develops schizophrenia.
It’s 1955 when 13-year-old Lyric moves with her father and older sister, Summer, from a small Virginia town to the big industrial city...
| Author | Jason Loborik |
| ISBN | 0553821148 |
The Mark of Nimeuh is a novelisation of the Merlin tv episode of the same name.
As with the other novelisation of Merlin episodes this is a straight retelling of the tv episode in prose form.
The book is well written and is rather pacy and is a pretty good version of the story which I believe...
There's A Code Even The NSA Can’t Crack…
But Dillon Richard can. Dillon is a straight-arrow genius with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s never told a lie. He’s never been kissed. And he’s never had a quantum computer for cracking codes. Until now.
In just a few days, Dillon will...
| Author | Simon A. Forward |
| ISBN | 0553821156 |
Having read the novelisation of Valiant, I decided I might as well continue with the other episode adaptations that I own, the next one being The Poisoned Chalice. I disliked this episode when it first aired and having recently rewatched it, I did not have high hopes for this book.
As with Valiant,...
| Author | Mike Tucker |
| ISBN | 0553821105 |
I've recently spent the past few days rewatching BBC's Merlin, which while it was still airing, was easily one of my favourite TV shows. Along with my love of this show came my desire to get the novelisation of each episode too. However, when I initially looked for them, I could only find four (and not the...
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: The Dastard's Guide to Fame and Fortune
| Author | Shepherd Mead |
| ISBN | 0684800209 |
This is the late-1950s parody of a self-help manual that became the hit B'way musical and movie starring Robert Morse, later revived with Matthew Broderick. It reminds me of a similar British parody-turned-movie, "Gamesmanship," better known in movie form as SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS.
HOW...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0439367867 |
In this powerful novel researched in NYC schools, Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton documents the struggle young people face as they simultaneously assert their independence and yearn for guidance.
Friendship isn't always easy. Natalie is different from the other girls in Dreenie's...
| Author | The Manga University Culinary Institute |
| ISBN | 4921205078 |
Reading manga sure can make a person hungry! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that the characters are eating? Introducing The Manga Cookbook, an illustrated step-by-step guide to preparing simple Japanese dishes using ingredients found in every Western kitchen....
| Author | Michael Noonan |
| ISBN | 0702222933 |
Amazing. Incredible. Stupendous. One of my rare 5 star treasures. I'd heard about the film ages ago but Daniel Radcliffe does not really float my boat [no, get your dirty minds out of the gutter, pervs] so I skipped it. Now I'm itching to watch it immediately.
I have a thing for books with detailed...
| Author | George Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0613259920 |
Lewis and Clark by George Sullivan
Book Summary:
Lewis and Clark is a book about two men who explored the western United States between 1804 and 1806 in search for new land. Thomas Jefferson, who was President at the time, recruited them to discover the land of the Louisiana Purchase. The...
