Wasteland
10 best books like Wasteland (Francesca Lia Block): Razzle, Speak, Remember Me to Harold Square, Josie and Jack, After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away, Undercover, Better Than Running at Night, Evidence of Angels, Brave New Girl, Making the Run
| 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 | Kelly Braffet |
| ISBN | 0618441433 |
In Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet gives us a deliciously dark, suspenseful debut novel in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith.
Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying western Pennsylvania home. The only adult...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060735252 |
In the raw was how the world felt now. My feelings were raw, my thoughts were raw and hurtful like knife blades. . . . In the blue had been my place to hide, now In the raw there was nowhere to hide.
Jenna Abbott separates her life into two categories: before the wreck and after the wreck, Before the...
| Author | Beth Kephart |
| ISBN | 0061238937 |
Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, Elisa ghostwrites love notes for the boys in her school. But when Elisa falls for Theo Moses, things change fast. Theo asks for verses to court the lovely Lila—a girl known for her beauty, her popularity, and a cutting ability to remind Elisa that she has none of...
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Heather Henson |
| ISBN | 0064473392 |
All her life Lulu McClellan has heard the names. Growing up in a small Kentucky town, Lu has forever felt like she's on the outside looking in. Maybe that's why she takes pictures – to make sense of what she sees and feels but doesn't always understand.
Now that graduation is almost here, Lu and...
| Author | April Halprin Wayland |
| ISBN | 0440419034 |
You walk into class—
my head clears.
No kidding.
You are my aspirin.
One girl. One school year. All poems. From friends to first dates, school dances to family fights, this inspiring collection captures the emotional highs and lows of teen life with refreshing honesty...
| Author | Caroline Albertine Minor |
Velsignelser er historier om mennesker, der sørger, og mennesker, der bare ikke ved, hvad de skal stille op med sig selv. De handler om at miste for altid og om at finde trøst.
To dage før jul hænger Anso sig i et figentræ i sin australske udvekslingsfamilies tørre have. Helana...
| Author | Colleen Curran |
| ISBN | 1400079950 |
The girls of Sacred Heart Holy Angels eye the good dancers at the all-ages club Metropolis. They waste afternoons at the mall, check out parties on the lake, burn through candid, casual sex.
Everybody calls them the Whores on the Hill, but they don't care.
It is the mid-'80s and they...
| Author | Midori Snyder |
| ISBN | 0142401358 |
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Brittman is looking forward to her violin recital and the prom-- until the hospital calls and she learns that her grandfather, noted mystical painter Daniel Brittman, is dying. Cassie, her mother, Anne, and Anne's new boyfriend travel to the family farm and immediately...
| Author | Melissa Gira Grant |
| ISBN | 0615384943 |
from the Introduction:
We knew from our earliest conversations that Coming & Crying was meant not to be erotic but true. We wanted to make a book that charged people with telling real stories about sex but didn't pressure them to turn anyone on. Coming & Crying aims not for conclusions...
| Author | Rebecca Godfrey |
| ISBN | 0060094850 |
“The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing -- like S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, except about girls.” — Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin
At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590418386 |
Slam books are of course the 80s/90s version of the burn book made famous in Tina Fey's "Mean Girls". A book put together my adolescent teenage girls with a lot of hormones and aggression and a need to bitch about their peers. I read this book in grade eight and still remember it 13 years later because I skipped...
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| ISBN | 0671897071 |
Welcome to the world of Portland teenager Andrea Marr, the bold, sexy, shy, often confused but always resilient heroine of Girl. Told in a voice that reads like the intimate diary of a young woman about to take life on full throttle, this wonderful debut novel chronicles Andrea's jittery journey from...
| Author | Trish Cook |
| ISBN | 0451215087 |
A hilarious, endearing debut about a teenage girl's quest to find her long-lost father, who just may be a rock star...
Trace lives smack in the middle of picture-perfect suburban Winnetka, Illinois. But her life is anything but cookie-cutter normal. Her mom, Bebe, is a zillion years younger...
| Author | Ophira Edut |
| ISBN | 1580050166 |
As I paged through the short essays in this book at the library, I decided to give it a chance. To me it did not live up to the "groundbreaking anthology" it promised to be. In fact, some of the stories even made me feel a bit worse about my body image. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy quite a few essays but almost...
| Author | Rachel Cohn |
| ISBN | 1416912177 |
The thick red cupcake letter frosting on the cover slightly grossed me out. Cyd has just never grown on me. I admire Rachel Cohn's ability to channel the thought processes she goes through while making the decisions not to go to college and whether or not to chase after her on-again/off-again maybe-true-love...
| Author | Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen |
| ISBN | 8711553448 |
En slægtsroman og en kærlighedsfortælling om udvandring og familieforhold på tværs af Atlanterhavet.
En ung kvinde længes hjem til et land, hvor hun aldrig har boet. Hendes bedsteforældre udvandrede fra Færøerne til Danmark lige før besættelsen, og da de dør tager de det meste...
| Author | Jón Kalman Stefánsson |
| ISBN | 9935488128 |
Hvert fer maður ef það er engin leið út úr heiminum?
Öll fæðumst við nafnlaus en erum mjög fljótlega nefnd svo það verði ögn erfiðara fyrir dauðann að sækja okkur.
Foreldrar Ástu völdu nafnið meðan hún var enn í móðurkviði. Nú liggur Sigvaldi faðir...
| Author | Geneen Roth |
| ISBN | 0452276799 |
I struggled initially with this book as I was expecting more of a prescriptive 'how to' approach, when what the author does is position it as more a discussion based on her own experiences and insights from other people.
However, I got into it and came to understand the style she adopted - because...
