Will
10 best books like Will (Maria Boyd): Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter, Graffiti Moon, Raw Blue, Guitar Highway Rose, Beatle Meets Destiny, Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight, All I Ever Wanted, Holier Than Thou, A Straight Line to My Heart, The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
| Author | Adeline Yen Mah |
| ISBN | 0440228654 |
A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.
A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph...
| Author | Cath Crowley |
| ISBN | 0330425781 |
Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist.
Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose.
Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing eggs at her probably wasn't the best way to show it.
Jazz and Leo are slowly encircling each other.
An intense and...
| Author | Kirsty Eagar |
| ISBN | 0143011456 |
Carly has dropped out of uni to spend her days surfing and her nights working as a cook in a Manly cafe. Surfing is the one thing she loves doing... and the only thing that helps her stop thinking about what happened two years ago at schoolies week.
And then Carly meets Ryan, a local at the break, fresh...
| Author | Brigid Lowry |
| ISBN | 0312342969 |
My name is Rosie Moon. I am nearly sixteen. I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out the window at night and I can taste it out there, waiting for me.
Popular and smart, fifteen-year-old Rosie Moon is the quintessential good girl. She also wishes she could be someone else for a while, someone more...
I literally feel more disappointment with myself for not liking this than I do with this book for letting me down. I never begin reading a book thinking that I'll dislike it; I read for enjoyment, not self-torture. And since this is realistic fiction, a genre which has quickly risen to top position on my...
Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight is two weeks in the life of Joel Hedges and Cat Davis. Joel would prefer to get through his final year of high school without Cat Davis or his mother's faux Spanish boyfriend and just hang-out with his best-friend Luke. Cat Davis has an annoying best-friend, and even more...
Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go — anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won't get off the couch, and two brothers in prison. She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them.
Now Mim has to retrieve a lost package for her mother.
Does...
| Author | Laura Buzo |
| ISBN | 1741759986 |
'What do you want, Hol?' Abby looks into my eyes.
'I ... I want to know that I'm using my powers for good and -'
'You want to make a dead man proud.'
'Whoa!'
'You want to put bandages over severed arteries that really need to be sewn shut. You want the moral high ground.'
Holly...
A Straight Line to My Heart
| Author | Bill Condon |
| ISBN | 1742377300 |
A funny, poignant, realistic story of Tiffany's first love and first job, and the inevitability of change in the first summer out of school School is over, not just for the year, but forever. Tiff and Kayla are free, which is what they've always wanted, but now summer is nearly at an end and that...
| Author | Lisa Shanahan |
| ISBN | 0385735162 |
IN MY FAMILY, when anyone rides the wave of their emotions, we say they're chucking a birkett. When the emotion drives out all common sense, we say they're chucking a big one. The telltale signs are: flaming cheeks, shortness of breath, bulging eyes, and a prolonged illogical outburst.
Gemma...
| Author | Simmone Howell |
| ISBN | 1582348359 |
Seventeen-year-old Gem loves movies, her feminist mom, and Dodgy, her coworker in a video store (at least she thinks she loves Dodgy). When a school trip inspires Gem to make an underground film, her best friends Lo and Mira are quick to join the project, taking on the roles of producer and star. The film...
What do you do when you’ve just lost three of your best mates?
Who do you turn to when your life is suddenly bound to a wheelchair?
Dan has dodged the Reaper again. If he were a cat, five of his nine lives would be gone—when his mates didn’t even get second chances. He’s still grieving...
| Author | Leanne Hall |
| ISBN | 1921758643 |
I really liked Leanne Hall's debut novel
This is Shyness
. The world that Hall created was phenomenal - a perpetually night-bound suburb called Shyness where the sun has stopped rising; the relationship that blossoms wildly over the course of 24 hours between two strangers from opposite sides of...
What’s the craziest thing your mum has asked you to do?
Nina doesn’t have a conventional family. Her family robs banks—even she and her twelve-year-old brother Tom are in on the act now. Sophia, Nina’s mother, keeps chasing the thrill: ‘Anyway, their money’s insured!’ she...
| Author | Lili Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 1742376193 |
Smart, funny, page-turning contemporary crime fiction in the tradition of Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie—and Veronica Mars
Beatrice May Ross is smart, observant, and analytical, so when a dead body is discovered in the taxidermy department at the museum where she's interning,...
