Violet & Claire
10 best books like Violet & Claire (Francesca Lia Block): Razzle, Speak, Remember Me to Harold Square, The Dark Garden, Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire, You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir, Better Than Running at Night, Watching the Roses, Evidence of Angels, Blood Sugar
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 0689856008 |
Razzle Penney, an oddball teen who works at the town dump, befriends Ken Baker when he and his parents first move to Cape Cod. Ken is drawn to Razzle's eccentricities, and she inspires the best photographs he has taken. However, she also introduces him to her nemesis, Harley, a boy-crazy beauty who gets...
| Author | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| ISBN | 0374311250 |
The first ten lies they tell you in high school.
"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."
From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116941 |
This summer could be a disaster. Kendra's parents have invited Frank, a 15-year-old she's never met, to stay with them. And they've planned a goofy scavenger hunt for the kids, including Kendra's bratty younger brother. They have to race all around New York City and visit places like the Empire State...
| Author | Margaret Buffie |
| ISBN | 1553370910 |
In this Gothic novel by award-winner Margaret Buffie, 16-year-old Thea is suffering from traumatic amnesia. As she returns home and begins to rediscover who she is, the empty places of her mind fill up with shadowy memories. When she begins to hear voices from the past, she must find out what these ghosts...
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| ISBN | 0231109253 |
The collection Poems Between Women explores many facets of female-female relationships in poems not only about love or affection between or inspired by women but also about the moments that complicate and call into question the nature of sexuality and intimacy between women. Including women married...
| Author | Eireann Corrigan |
| ISBN | 0439297710 |
A startling autobiographical account of a young woman's battle with eating disorders that put her in and out of hospitals over a span of four years and led to her own parents fighting for the right to commit her. When her last source of support, her boyfriend, attempts suicide and ends up in a coma, she is...
| Author | Hillary Frank |
| ISBN | 0618250735 |
Having left behind the melodrama of her solitary high school days—and the beheaded martyrs in her paintings—Ellie arrives at the New England College of Art and Design. Looking forward to the opportunity to recreate herself and her art, she begins her first day by dirty dancing with the Devil. Then...
| Author | Adèle Geras |
| ISBN | 0152055312 |
In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," Alice seems destined to lead a princess's life--except for the frightening curse that dreaded Aunt Violette bestowed at her christening: She will die at the age of eighteen. Although she lives, something horrible happens on her eighteenth birthday. And as...
| Author | Suza Scalora |
| ISBN | 0061243434 |
I don’t normally review non-fiction, but when emailed by Suza Scalora asking if I would like to review Evidence of Angels, I thought I would give it a go. As I have an idea for my own fictional story regarding angels, Evidence of Angels is classed as research.
This review is going to be a little...
| Author | Nicole Blackman |
| ISBN | 1888451343 |
Never liked poetry. Actually, I despised it. Ignored it. Then a few things happened in my life, I started to really listen to music and it`s lyrics and discovered Charles Bukowski and Nicole Blackman. They touched me. She touched me in places that I am afraid to reveal. Her hand penetrated my skull and...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590298402 |
I feel like Sunny is really, really selfish. Though I also realize that she's 13 years old, and that her reactions are fairly realistic. Some people deal with grief by lashing out, doing insane things, falling apart and being in denial. The sickening part about this one is that she has several adults in...
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0671773453 |
This book annoyed me to DEATH!
Gaia:
I'm ugly!SOOO UGLY!LOOK AT MY VERY SLIGHTLY MUSCULAR THIGHS!THEY'RE SO UUGGLY!!
Me:
The boys in the book:
Gaia is so beautiful!So effortlessly beautiful with her messy...
| Author | Louisa Luna |
| ISBN | 0743407865 |
A fourteen-year-old trying to find her way in the world, Doreen is as much an outcast at school as she is at home. Marginalized by her peers, misunderstood by her parents, and mourning the loss of her older brother who disappeared when she was just a child, Doreen finds solace in her fierce love of music...
| 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,...
