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Truth and Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness

10 best books like Truth and Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness (Liz Miles): Destroying Avalon, All of Me, Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?, Sweet, Hereafter, Memory: Stadt der Träume, The Right and the Real, By Any Other Name, Melody Burning, Escape Theory, Interim

Destroying Avalon
AuthorKate McCaffrey
ISBN1921064579
When Avalon moves to the city her life is turned upside down. Starting at a new high school, she finds herself at the centre of a brutal cyber-bullying campaign. She is inundated with obscene text messages, and subject to increasingly vicious web site postings, as things spiral out of control.

Miserable...
All of Me
AuthorMaureen Stewart
ISBN0140377719
Young Rebecca, the protagonist, struggles with her food. Her world of anorexia has been going on for a while when the book starts, but it seems to have been going on for a year previous. It seems to be rooted in a desire for her parents to notice her- neither her mother or father seem to be interested.

This...
Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?
AuthorMarissa Walsh
ISBN0547014961
How often do you find yourself looking in the mirror? And smiling at what you see?
More likely, you're thinking what you see is: Fat, Ugly, Skinny, Round, Stacked or Flat, Bad or Good. From reality television to tabloid headlines, we're all surrounded by weight and discussion of weight. In this collection,...
Sweet, Hereafter
AuthorAngela Johnson
ISBN0689873859
Having read the other titles in the trilogy, I think Sweet, Hereafter is a deft closing. This final installment is about Sweet, a young girl we meet through Marley in Heaven. Sweet is odd; she wears knee high rain boots, isn’t obsessed with ipods or Facebook, drives a truck dubbed Alice and likes feeding...
Memory: Stadt der Träume
AuthorChristoph Marzi
ISBN3401066226
Jude Finney hat eine besondere Fähigkeit: Er kann die Träume der Toten sehen. Auf dem Highgate Cemetery, in einer Welt zwischen Realität und Traum, begegnet er der geheimnisvollen Story, einem Mädchen, das tausend Geschichten kennt, aber sich an seine eigene nicht erinnern kann. Jude ahnt,...
The Right and the Real
AuthorJoelle Anthony
ISBN0399255257
Kicked out for refusing to join a cult, seventeen-year-old Jamie must find a way to survive on her own.

Jamie should have known something was off about the church of the Right and the Real from the start, especially when the Teacher claimed he wasn’t just an ordinary spiritual leader, but Jesus...
By Any Other Name
AuthorLaura Jarratt
ISBN1405256737
Nobody can know the truth—her life depends on it. A tale of family, identity, and trust, about a girl struggling with life in the witness protection program.

I picked up the book and thumbed through the pages. Names in alphabetical order, names with meanings, names I knew, names I'd never...
Melody Burning
AuthorWhitley Strieber
ISBN0805093273
Beresford doesn’t remember much about his past or how he came to live in the chutes and crawl spaces of the posh high-rise that shares his name. But when rock star and teen sensation Melody McGrath moves to an apartment on the fiftieth floor, he knows he has to be near her. Although she doesn’t realize...
Escape Theory
AuthorMargaux Froley
ISBN1616951273
Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she’s not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford’s psych program. So junior year, she decides to...
Interim
AuthorS. Walden
ISBN1508692874
~A lot can change in the space between devising a plan and carrying it out. That space is called the INTERIM.~
High school seniors Jeremy Stahl and Regan Walters aren’t friends. Not even close. He’s a picked-on, picked-apart loser outcast. She’s a cool kid running with the popular crowd....
The Convent
AuthorMaureen McCarthy
ISBN1742375049
A breathtaking novel that follows the hidden and intertwined lives of four young women as they face difficult, life-changing, impossible choices during the 1920s, 1960s, and the present

'I woke up with a feeling about today,' Stella says dreamily. 'Something truly amazing is going...
After the Death of Anna Gonzales
AuthorTerri Fields
A look at the effects of one girl's suicide on her high school

"I can feel
The whispering of the hallway walls
Growing louder as the groups gather.
Each clique adding to its morning input.

"Did you hear?"
"Who told you?"
"Do you think it's really true?"

New...
How to Win at High School
AuthorOwen Matthews
Using Scarface as his guide to life, Adam Higgs is going from zero to high school hero.

Adam Higgs is a loser, and he’s not okay with it.

But starting as a junior in a new high school seems like exactly the right time to change things. He brainstorms with his best friend, Brian: What will...
Complete Nothing
AuthorKieran Scott
ISBN1442477229
True’s matchmaking skills are the stuff of legend! The second novel in Kieran Scott’s delightful teen romance series that TeenVogue.com called “the next Twilight.”

True is not exactly loving New Jersey. Banished from Mount Olympus and tasked with helping couples find love without...
Anywhere but Here
AuthorTanya Lloyd Kyi
Cole’s small town is a trap he’s determined to escape in this fresh and moving debut novel that balances loss with humor.

Ever since his mom died, Cole just feels stuck. His dad acts like a stranger, and Lauren, his picture-perfect girlfriend of two years, doesn’t understand him anymore....
Compulsion
AuthorHeidi Ayarbe
ISBN0061993867
Today has to be perfect.
Magic.
I look at the clock.
10:14 AM.

Ten fourteen. One plus one is two plus four is six plus ten is sixteen minus one is fifteen minus two is thirteen. OK.

I turn from the clock and walk into the hallway. "Ready."

Saturday will be the third...
The Imaginary World of...
AuthorKeri Smith
ISBN0399165258
What kind of world would you like to inhabit?

To imagine something different, better, or more interesting is to push the existing world into a state of change. Some of the greatest revolutionary acts of our time came to be because someone had the courage to imagine something new.

In...
In My Father's Den
AuthorMaurice Gee
ISBN0143019414
When Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past - which proves as...
What We Lost in the Dark
AuthorJacquelyn Mitchard
ISBN1616951435
Allie Kim’s fatal allergy to sunlight, XP, still confines her to the night. Now that she’s lost her best friend Juliet to an apparent suicide, the night has never felt darker—even with Rob at her side.

Allie knows why Juliet killed herself: to escape the clutches of Garrett Tabor, whom...
Resonance
AuthorErica O'Rourke
As a Walker between worlds, Del is responsible for the love of her life—and the fate of millions—in this thrilling sequel to Dissonance.

Del risked everything to save Simon, and now he’s gone, off in another world with no way for Del to find him.

She’s back at the Consort—training...
Nicholas Dane
AuthorMelvin Burgess
ISBN1842701819
His most substantial book to date, this compelling story of a teenager caught in a corrupt 1980s Care Home is a powerful study of a particularly highly-charged and distressing subject. Handled with great sensitivity and engrossing narrative drive, it is an important addition to the understanding...
Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance
AuthorRhoda Belleza
ISBN0762444282
It does not necessarily take a fist to create a punch in the gut. This fourteen-story YA fiction anthology delves into the experience of being bullied—socially, emotionally, physically, psychologically, and sexually. The school hallways, walks home, and house walls are no longer the boundaries...
The Right Song
AuthorShane Morgan
ISBN0692230424
Pain never truly goes away, until you find something deeper and meaningful that cures the heart and fills it with love.
That is what Aurora desperately wants to believe. That somehow her music can save her, or even touch the unreachable heart of the guy she has liked for years.

Rora yearns...
He's After Me
AuthorChris Higgins
Anna's bruised and upset by the collapse of her parents' marriage. So much of the fallout - including responsibility for her wayward younger sister - seems to be heading in her direction. All she wants is to get the exam results she needs to get herself to university - and away from this mess. She certainly...
Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire
AuthorPaula Guran
ISBN0762442204
Young love has always had its challenges, but even so, the world falling apart at its seams is a pretty big obstacle. This stellar collection of YA dystopian tales explores survival of the fittest in terms of love, passion, and humanity. When the survival of the human race is at stake, what will it take...
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