What’s in it
Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.
24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFamily Secrets
Kate William · 154 pages
Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are worried that their cousin, Kelly Bates, is so upset about her parents' divorce that she is making the wrong decision about a new boyfriend.
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
A Gift of Magic
Lois Duncan · 201 pages
Until she learns to control it, Nancy's gift of extrasensory perception brings her more trouble than she can handle.
The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Deb Caletti · 336 pages
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.
Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom
Susin Nielsen
The 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
One Paris Summer
Denise Grover Swank · 352 pages
Sophie Brooks agrees to spend the summer with her father and his soon-to-be new wife, as well as share a room with her stepmom's daughter, Camille. But what should be a lovely time in the City of Lights, preparing for her audition at the prestigious French music academy she's dreamed of attending, becomes a nightmare due to the lack of a piano and less than sisterly relations … until the attractiv
Identical
Ellen Hopkins · 624 pages
Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family—on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin. For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a
The Divorce Express
Paula Danziger · 148 pages
Resentful of her parents' divorce, a young girl tries to accommodate herself to their new lives and also find a place for herself.
Love Letters to the Dead
Ava Dellaira · 327 pages
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.
Vanishing Girls
Lauren Oliver · 343 pages
Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her si
Caucasia
Danzy Senna · 413 pages
Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the civil rights movement in Boston in the 1970s. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be sisters: while Cole looks like her father's daughter, Birdie appears to be white. For Birdie, Cole is the mirror in which she can see her ow
The Sisters Antipodes
Jane Alison · 277 pages
In this heartbreaking memoir, novelist Alison recounts how she and her sister were thrown into a state of silent combat for the affections of their absent fathers--a contest that would prove tragic--in this unique window on the intimate devastations of family betrayal.
Deep Down True
Juliette Fay · 399 pages
"Newly divorced Dana Stellgarten has always been unfailingly nice--even to telemarketers--but now her temper is wearing thin. Money is tight, her kids are reeling from their dad's departure, and her Goth teenage niece has just landed on her doorstep. As she enters the slipstream of post-divorce romance and is befriended by the town queen bee, Dana finds that the tension between being true to yours
The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June
Robin Benway
Les soeurs Stephenson, April (16 ans), May (15 ans) et June (14 ans), découvrent qu'elles sont dotées de pouvoirs extraordinaires. L'aînée peut prédire l'avenir, la deuxième se rend invisible à la moindre émotion tandis que la cadette sait lire dans les pensées. Ces pouvoirs pourraient leur être utiles ... mais se révèlent plutôt encombrants!
Ashes
Laurie Halse Anderson · 320 pages
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty · 557 pages
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital to find out that she's getting divorced, has three kids, and is actually thirty-nine. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade -- and try to reconstruct her life. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks t
Come What May
Lauren Brooke · 157 pages
After the tragic death of her mother, 15-year old Amy Fleming is running the farm with her older sister Lou, her Grandad, and stablehands Ty and Ben. In "Come What May", Amy is stunned when Lou reveals that she has been in contact with their estranged father. Can Amy bring herself to meet him, after he abandoned the family so many years ago?
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher · 240 pages
My sister lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. Everyone kept saying it would get better with time, but that's just one of those lies that grown-ups tell. Five years on, it's worse than ever: Dad drinks, Mums gone and Jamie's left with questions that he must answer for himself.