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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAre You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume · 149 pages
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can b
How to Survive Middle School
Donna Gephart · 256 pages
Frenemies forever
Rachel Renee Russell · 368 pages
Catherine, Called Birdy
Karen Cushman · 218 pages
¨Catherine's mother wants to teach her the skills of the lady of the manor and to prepare her to be a gentle and patient wife. Her father only wants her to be married off, and profitably. Catherine herself hopes to become a painter, a Crusader, a maker of songs, a peddlar, a monk, a ministrel, a wart charmer... Of all the possibilities, she has ruled out only one: being sold like cheese to the hig
The Ugly Truth
Jeff Kinney · 219 pages
###German-language description: Greg hat´s offenbar eilig, schnell älter zu werden. Aber ist das wirklich so eine gute Idee?Jedenfalls muss er feststellen: Erwachsenwerden ist gar nicht lustig! Denn plötzlich soll Greg "mehr Verantwortung" übernehmen, mehr duschen und Deo benutzen, in der Schule peinliche Aufklärungsvideos ansehen und Bücher über die Pubertät lesen. Und dann verkündet seine Mutte
Flipped
Wendelin Van Draanen · 212 pages
The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort." But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he's thinking there's more to her than meets
Jessica Darling's It List: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Popularity, Prettiness & Perfection
Megan McCafferty · 228 pages
The day before seventh grade begins, twelve-year-old Jessica Darling gets a list from her sister, whose popularity and beauty made her a junior-high standout, but when she tries to follow it, all goes awry, including losing her best friend. The day before seventh grade begins, twelve-year-old Jessica Darling gets a list from her sister, whose popularity and beauty made her a junior-high standout.
Stacey's Mistake
Ann M. Martin · 145 pages
Stacey invites her Baby-sitters Club friends to New York City for a long weekend full of activities but, much to her dismay, nothing turns out exactly as planned.
Twelve
Lauren Myracle · 208 pages
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
Reluctantly Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 187 pages
Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives.
Fourth Grade Rats
Jerry Spinelli · 90 pages
A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee. Fourth graders are tough. They aren't afraid of spiders. They say no to their moms. They push first graders off the swings. And they never, ever cry. Suds knows that now that he's in fourth grade, he's supposed to be a rat. But whenever he tries to act like one, something goes wrong. Can Suds's friend Joey teac
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly · 340 pages
Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger. As Callie explores
The Best School Year Ever
Barbara Robinson · 117 pages
The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the school year.
Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies
Erin Dionne · 274 pages
Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn't entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge. To get out of it, she's forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste—because, after all, a thin girl can't be a fat model! What Celeste never imagined was t
The Tail of Emily Windsnap
Liz Kessler · 208 pages
For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering
The Talented Clementine
Sara Pennypacker · 137 pages
Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 338 pages
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis · 249 pages
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things. 2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but
I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader
Kieran Scott · 272 pages
nnisa Gobrowski has a problem - everyone at her new Florida high school is blonde. If Annisa's New Jersey attitude didn't make her stand out enough, her dark pixie cut sure does. Yet no lack of golden highlights is going to stop Annisa from making the best of Sand Dune High, especially once she checks out their competition-level cheerleading squad, and her uberhot, guitar-playing new neighbor Dani
Owls in the Family
Farley Mowat · 103 pages
Describes the many adventures of a family that adopts two owls.
Nicholas
Rene Goscinny · 131 pages
This collection of stories focuses on the whimsical adventures and misadventures of little Nicolas and his friends at school and at play. Available to English-speaking children for the first time, this worldwide classic is one of a five book series that brings to life the day-to-day adventures of a young school boy--amusing, endearing, and always in trouble.
A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck · 130 pages
Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better no