When We Were Saints
10 best books like When We Were Saints (Han Nolan): What to Do Until Love Finds You: The Bestselling Guide to Preparing Yourself for Your Perfect Mate, Crossing Stones, Badd, The Book of Fred, The Adventures of Blue Avenger, Buddha Boy, Deadville, Hothouse, The Day It Snowed Tortillas / El día que nevó tortilla, Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about The Grapes of Wrath
What to Do Until Love Finds You: The Bestselling Guide to Preparing Yourself for Your Perfect Mate
| Author | Michelle McKinney Hammond |
| ISBN | 0736917187 |
The book that started it all—Michelle McKinney Hammond's popular first book re-releases with a dynamic new cover and all the attitude and wisdom that made it a fabulous start to Michelle's growing list of inspiring books.
In What to Do Until Love Finds You, Michelle offers women practical,...
| Author | Helen Frost |
| ISBN | 0374316538 |
Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel.
Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.
Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family's closest friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can remember, the families' lives have been intertwined,...
Ceejay has never been pretty or popular, but she knows who she is: she's younger sister to Bobby, the most charming bad boy in town. Bobby's a bit wild, but with his big heart and sense of fun, everybody loves him. And nobody understands Ceejay like Bobby.
Now, Ceejay can't wait for Bobby to return...
| Author | Abby Bardi |
| ISBN | 0743411943 |
Filled with soulful humor and quiet pathos, Abby Bardi's boldly drawn first novel marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler of the quest for connection in contemporary life.
Mary Fred Anderson, raised in an isolated fundamentalist sect whose primary obsessions seem to involve an imminent...
| Author | Norma Howe |
| ISBN | 0064472256 |
On his sixteenth birthday, David Schumacher changes his name to Blue Avenger. . .
And things start to happen. Within twenty-four hours, David becomes a national hero, starts dating an extraordinary girl named Omaha Nebraska Brown, and bakes an imperfect pie. And that's not all. A tiny sow...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0142402095 |
The kids at school call Jinsen “Buddha Boy”—he wears oversize tie-dyed dragon T- shirts, shaves his head, and always seems to be smiling. He’s clearly a freak. Then Justin is paired with him for a class project. As he gets to know Jinsen and his incredible artistic talent, Justin questions his...
| Author | Ron Koertge |
| ISBN | 0763635804 |
Ron Koertge's spot-on repartee highlights the wry, poignant tale of a teen who is numbed by loss but finds an unusual route to reclaiming his life.
Listening to music 24/7. Hanging out with his slacker-stoner friend, Andy. Basically, Ryan's been sleepwalking through life since his younger...
If you do it right, it can be a life. The hothouse, the guys, the glory. But just like that, it can all go up in smoke. In the beginning it was strange, ya know, because of all that we had lost. But there was something about it that felt so good and so right, too: "I'm so proud of you, Russ." "We'll always be here...
| Author | Joe Hayes |
| ISBN | 0938317768 |
Kids of all ages are always asking Joe Hayes, "How can it snow tortillas?" Well, now they’ll know where to find the answer—at long last, Joe’s signature book The Day It Snowed Tortillas is appearing in this new bilingual edition. Bloomsbury Review listed the original English-only edition as...
| Author | Steven Goldman |
| ISBN | 1599902710 |
Mitchell Wells may not survive eleventh grade. He really only has one friend, his best friend, David. His normally decent grade point average is in limbo due to a slightly violent, somewhat inappropriate claymation film. And girls . . . well, does hanging out with his sister count?
When David...
| Author | Geert Spillebeen |
| ISBN | 0618800352 |
As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.
When World War I broke out, John, like his father...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0064409309 |
Jimmy and Kevin could really use a guide to life.
Their activities almost land them in juvenile detention until Duke employs them in his Harlem barbershop. Duke has rules for everything. But is he offering good advice or just more aggravation?
In the groundbreaking tradition of the...
| Author | Donna Freitas |
| ISBN | 0374360871 |
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0440414822 |
An easy 'tween read, not worth an adult's hour. The way grandma teaches the girl a lesson borders on abuse, imo. I have no idea how Molly can forgive her even before dinner time, while exhausted, in pain, hungry, and hopped on caffeine. Molly obviously already has resilience and, erm, 'balls,' and if the...
Everyone Else's Parents Said Yes
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116879 |
This book is about a boy who is looking forward to his birthday thats coming up soon.He stopped being his usual self to get things he need for his upcoming birthday.Ex:sweets, birthday invitaion,and etc. You must think he's crazy for needing sweets but this is because his mother doesn't let the family...
| Author | Janis Hallowell |
| ISBN | 0060559209 |
Told from the viewpoints of four unforgettable characters, The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn is the story of an ordinary girl who is believed to be a modern-day Holy Virgin. At the heart of the story is Francesca: a shy and moody teenager hungry for her absent father's love, she is frightened and intoxicated...
Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders: An Urban Historical
A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore.
Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't...
| Author | Kelly Kerney |
| ISBN | 0156031450 |
What happens when a Bible Quiz Champion takes on Darwin? Mel, a faith-filled Pentecostal, has the chance to escape Slow Rapids, Indiana, by attending academic summer camp. The only catch? She has to read forbidden tomes like The Origin of Species . So she forges the permission slip, promising God she’ll...
The Christening Day Murder
| Author | Lee Harris |
| ISBN | 0449148718 |
Former nun Christine Bennett is looking forward to the christening of her friend Maddie's baby. But when she goes to the church basement of the town that was flooded out thirty years before, Christine stumbles upon the skeletel remains of a body--the grim result of a thirty-year old murder. Trying to...
Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula
| Author | Enid A. Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0531125998 |
Features:
- Engaging biographies of famous and infamous figures in history
- Sophisticated design will attract high-school and middle-school struggling readers, yet on-target reading level makes these books accessible to readers of all levels
- Controlled vocabulary and sentence...
African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus
| Author | Rachel Holmes |
| ISBN | 1400061369 |
Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As...
| Author | Amy Patricia Meade |
| ISBN | 0738725900 |
In bucolic small-town Vermont, Stella Thornton Buckley feels out of her element—and not just because she's fresh from Manhattan. Mere hours after moving to maple syrup country, she and her husband, Nick, find a dead man, Allen Weston, in their well. The police investigation forces the couple out...
Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
A Fresh and Important New Way to Understand Why We Buy
Why did the RAZR ultimately ruin Motorola? Why does Wal-Mart dominate rural and suburban areas but falter in large cities? Why did Starbucks stumble just when it seemed unstoppable?
The answer lies in the ever-present tension...
| Author | Ellery Queen |
| ISBN | 0451120744 |
Queen visits an operating theater to witness a surgery, but finds a murder instead
The son of a police detective, Ellery Queen grew up in a bloody atmosphere. Since he started lending his deductive powers to the New York City homicide squad, he has seen more than his fair share of mangled corpses....
