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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe List of Things That Will Not Change
Rebecca Stead · 240 pages
EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now."An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of WonderAt a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me.After her parents' divorce, Bea's
Farewell, Dawn
Ann M. Martin · 137 pages
Club member dawn is torn between California and Stoneybrook, especially after bad news from California. Will Dawn leave her family and friends and move to California.....permanently???
The Steps
Rachel Cohn · 137 pages
"If you think it's hard keeping track of all the Steps in my life, try being me.""The Steps" in Annabel's life are her "bazillion" stepbrothers, stepsisters, and half siblings. She is spending her Christmas vacation in Australia with her dad and his new family, and she hopes beyond hope that she can convince him to come back to the United States with her. But as Annabel realizes how much happie
Scarlett
Cathy Cassidy · 261 pages
After being expelled from yet another school in London, twelve-year-old Scarlett is sent by her exasperated mother to live with her father, stepmother, and stepsister in Ireland, where, with the help of a mysterious boy, she eventually overcomes her anger and resentment and feels part of a family again.
Amelia Rules! Volume 2: What Makes You Happy
Jimmy Gownley · 176 pages
The Dirt Diary
Anna Staniszewski · 250 pages
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
The Suitcase Kid
Jacqueline Wilson · 154 pages
When my parents split up they didn't know what to do with me . . . My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me - and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But now Mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her twins. And where do I live? I live out of a suitcase. One week with Mum's new family, one week with Dad's. It's as easy as A B C. That's what ever
Words with Wings
Nikki Grimes · 84 pages
Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Kate DiCamillo · 240 pages
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw it coming - the vacuum cleaner, that is. As for self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, she has read every issue of the comic book 'Terrible Things Can Happen to You!' so she is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the sq
P.S. Longer Letter Later
Paula Danziger, Ann M. Martin · 237 pages
Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.
What Would Joey Do?
Jack Gantos · 229 pages
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
Just as Long as We're Together
Judy Blume · 296 pages
The Field Guide
Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi · 107 pages
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
The First Rule of Punk
Celia C. Perez · 336 pages
“What do you do when your mom moves you to Chicago, far away from your friends, your dad, and his record shop? If you’re Malu, you make zines to express your feelings, find your people at school, and start a punk band to reinvent traditional Mexican music. This tour-de-force debut will have you smiling, singing, and cheering for Malu as she explores her family history, culture, and community and c
Time of the Witch
Mary Downing Hahn · 163 pages
Laura tells an old woman of her wish that her parents were back together again, without realizing that she is speaking to a real witch.
Jane of Lantern Hill
L.M. Montgomery · 274 pages
Jane wants a house where mother and father and she could live together without grandmother directing their lives.
Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom
Susin Nielsen
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen · 192 pages
Brian Robison, a teenage boy struggling through his parents divorce, is flying up north to stay with his dad for the summer. However, his plane crashes and he is forced to survive the Canadian wilderness. Now living in a world completely opposite of his own, he is now able to discover himself in this forsaken and misunderstood beautiful world. The story is continued in "The River" "Brian's Wint
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
Julia Alvarez · 146 pages
Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
A Boy Called Bat
Elana K. Arnold · 198 pages
When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has austim, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk permanently.
Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins · 372 pages
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a wa