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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Mystery of Hollow Places
Rebecca Podos · 305 pages
A mystery writer's daughter sets out to find her missing father and, along the way, begins to understand the loneliness that has gripped them both since her mother abandoned them years before.
Fingerprints of You
Kristen-Paige Madonia · 272 pages
After spending her life moving from place to place with her single mother, pregnant seventeen-year-old Lemon takes a bus to San Francisco to seek the father she never knew, as well as truths about her mother and herself.
Catching Jordan
Miranda Kenneally · 384 pages
What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn't just surrounded by hot guys, though-she leads them as the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys and that's just fine. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university. But everything she's ever worked for is threatened wh
Just Listen
Sarah Dessen · 377 pages
Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything" — at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store. This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong. Tall, dark, and mu
The Unexpected Everything
Morgan Matson · 528 pages
Andie has a plan. And she always sticks to her plan. Future? A top-tier medical school. Dad? Avoid him as much as possible (which isn t that hard considering he s a Congressman and he s never around). Friends? Palmer, Bri, and Toby pretty much the most awesome people on the planet, who needs anyone else? Relationships? No one s worth more than three weeks.
Songs for a Teenage Nomad
Kim Culbertson
Something, Maybe
Elizabeth Scott · 217 pages
Seventeen-year-old high school student Hannah is trying to lead a normal life, despite the fact that both her parents are famous for their wild lifestyles, which means getting her secret crush to notice her.
Solace of the Road
Siobhan Dowd
Holly's story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her.Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels tra
Before I Die
Jenny Downham · 332 pages
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
The Broken Bridge
Philip Pullman · 218 pages
Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.
Apple and Rain
Sarah Crossan · 344 pages
Crank
Ellen Hopkins · 537 pages
Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for her mind, her soul---her life.
The Distance Between Us
Kasie West · 312 pages
"Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers knows better thant to trust a rich boy. But then she meets the richest guy of all, who proves money might not matter after all"--Provided by publisher. Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers knows better than to trust a rich boy, but then she meets the richest guy of all, who proves money might not matter after all.
Absolutely Maybe
Lisa Yee · 288 pages
When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
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.
Starting From Here
Lisa Jenn Bigelow · 290 pages
Sixteen-year-old Colby is barely hanging on with her mother dead, her long-haul trucker father often away, her almost-girlfriend dumping her for a boy, and her failing grades, when a stray dog appears and helps her find hope.
The Woman in the Wall
Patrice Kindl · 185 pages
Because she suffers from extreme shyness, Anna retreats into herself and her secret rooms where she attempts to remain hidden from the outside world.
My Life Next Door
Huntley Fitzpatrick · 432 pages
When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brashares · 310 pages
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they're fabulous. Lena decides they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody kn
Tithe
Holly Black · 320 pages
Young adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows.
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson · 197 pages
"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 she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler · 336 pages
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I was raised with a chimpanzee," she explains. "I tell you Fern is a chimp and, already, you aren't thinking of her as my sister. . . . Until Fern's expulsion . . . she was my twin, my fun-house mirror, my whirlwind other half. . . . I loved her as a sister."
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell · 438 pages
Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan... But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up lik