Uncle Vampire
10 best books like Uncle Vampire (Cynthia D. Grant): Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, The Girl in the Box, Sex Education, Jumping the Nail, Midnight Hour Encores, A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, What Kind of Love?: The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager, Weeping Willow, Melusine, The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown
| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0061139890 |
M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship
It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....
| Author | Ouida Sebestyen |
| ISBN | 0440228735 |
To Anybody Out There My name is Jackie McGee. I am the girl who disappeared. Listen to the news. See if other pieces of paper are scattered nearby. Maybe if you yell really loud I can hear you and yell back. I am not making this up. Please help!
Left in an underground cement room by an unknown captor, Jackie...
Fictional narrative that follows the story of Olivia Sinclair who is recalling her freshman year in a new city and high school. During this year, she meets her first "love", David, in a biology class which turns into an untraditional, exploratory, and eye-opening sex education class. As a project for...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152413588 |
At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt-leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives. “It’s Bunting’s acknowledgment of the allure of...
| Author | Bruce Brooks |
| ISBN | 0064470210 |
On the Road
Sibilance T. Spooner thinks she's one of the world's more promising cellists. The world thinks so too. Given up by her mother on the day she was born, she believes she has almost raised herself--with just a bit of guidance from her unconventional father, Taxi. When Sib finally asks...
| Author | Alice Childress |
| ISBN | 0698118545 |
Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste of time, and home life isn't much better. All Benjie wants is for...
| Author | Sheila Cole |
| ISBN | 0380725754 |
In a flash, Valerie's world comes tumbling down. Talented pretty and popular. She was enjoying life and planing her future. She and Peter, the love of her life, were sharing their dreams. Now she and Peter share a problem...
Except it turns out to be Val's problem. Peter says he loves her, but...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0374482802 |
The only thing that bothers me about this book is the summery given on the back. I went so far that I put a sticker on the back of my copy, so when I lend it to friends they can read it without bias.
I personally think this book is NOT about a girl being raped by her stepfather. Of course that happens, too, but...
| Author | Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN | 0380791358 |
What is the sinister mystery of Chateau Bois Serpe? Roger, his parents, and twin sisters arrive at this crumbling ruin in the wilds of France, anticipating a holiday that's "different." And so it proves, but not as they'd hoped. The owner, the strange daughter Mesuline, whom Roger first meets tending...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0140324798 |
"Bingo Brown fell in love three times during English Class." When I read this first sentence, I knew I was in for a treat. Of course, I was the same age as Bingo at the time, sixth grade, and over the course of the next several weeks, I fell in love with Bingo, myself. I devoured everything Byars wrote about...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0142501905 |
Feni is furious when she finds out that her mother has agreed to take a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl into their home until her baby is born. What kind of girl would let herself get into so much trouble? How can Feni live under the same roof with someone like that? Her worst fears are confirmed when Rebecca...
| Author | Louise Plummer |
| ISBN | 0385730926 |
MIRA KENT IS nearing her 16th birthday and wants to know more about a father she doesn't remember. Her mother tells her she has all his good qualities, but isn't specific. With nothing but a photo of her father, Mira wants more. She writes him imaginary notes:
Daddy, darling, where are you? I need...
| Author | Liz Berry |
| ISBN | 0140365346 |
This is kind of a weird book. On the one hand, it's a Cinderella romance story between poor, abused, untrusting Mel and rich, glamorous, rock star Mitch. On the other hand, it's also the story of how Mel takes charge of her life after her mother's breakdown. And on the third hand, there's a hefty dose of social...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0553243950 |
Bobby Perkins knew the minute he saw Mr. Hulka, his sinister new neighbor, that the man was evil. Then one morning, while spying on the man, who works as an undertaker, Bobby thinks he witnesses a violent crime. Bobby is determined to expose Mr. Hulka, and he asks his best friend, Lauri, to help him. The...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0439553970 |
When you make a deal with a vampire, there's no chance to change your mind. Or is there?
Lacey and her friends just want some fun. And what could be more fun than spending the night in a creepy old house? Especially a creepy old house with a strange circular tower? It's all just harmless fun, right?...
| Author | Rosemary Wells |
| ISBN | 0142301507 |
Whoa, downer. I was expecting some dark elements, based on the blurbed backstory of a boy at boarding school in hot water with his teachers and peers, but I was also expecting something fantastical "through the hidden door." Instead we get an implausible minor interlude punctuating the grimness of...
| Author | Nancy Garden |
| ISBN | 0679826599 |
Thanks to unexpected events, 12-year-old Tim and his sisters, Sarah and Jenny, are left on their own at the family's summer cabin. It seems like a dream come true. Tim can spend all his time training for the upcoming big race. And 13-year-old Sarah can read about vampires and collect butterflies to her...
| Author | JUDAL |
| ISBN | 1595324445 |
Yujinn and Vord could be having a better time in Razenia. Vord meets his birth father for the first time, only to find the King may not be himself. For Lassen and Sharlen are also in Razenia and they’ve been taking the game to the next level. Will Ishtar, Darres, and Duzell get there in time? And what about...
| Author | Tim Winton |
| ISBN | 0330340689 |
I really enjoyed the characterization on Egg. I thought the way that Lockie's parents handled his depression and teenaged sulking were funny. There's a lot of funny with this book. I also enjoyed that it didn't wrap up in a perfectly happy ending.
I read the book first. Now I know there was a book...
