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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLong Bright River
Liz Moore · 473 pages
A female cop begins to fear for her addicted sister. A serial murder is targeting homeless female prostitutes. Can Mickey find her sister before the killer does ?
Almost Home
Joan Bauer
Almost Home is a heartwarming tale about a young girl named Sugar. Sugar and her mother have been struggling, but through it all Sugar manages to stay sweet. Just before she and her mother get thrown out of their home, Sugar gets Shush. Shush becomes Sugar's forever companion. Sugar pours her feelings into heartfelt poems and sends them to her former teacher Mr.B, who encourages her to stay strong
Hope Is a Ferris Wheel
Robin Herrera · 273 pages
After moving from Oregon to a trailer park in California, ten-year-old Star participates in a poetry club, where she learns some important lessons about herself and her own hopes and dreams for the future. (From LOC data.)
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead · 199 pages
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
Kerry Hudson · 266 pages
When Janie Ryan is born, she's just the latest in a long line of Ryan women, Aberdeen fishwives to the marrow, always ready to fight. Her violet-eyed Grandma had predicted she'd be sly, while blowing Benson and Hedges smoke rings over her Ma's swollen belly. In the hospital, her family eyed her suspiciously, so close she could smell whether they'd had booze or food for breakfast. It was mostly boo
Hideous Kinky
Esther Freud · 186 pages
Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal fulfilment; her children, however, seek something more solid and stable amidst the shifting desert sands.'Just open the book and begin, and instantly you will be first of all charmed, then intrigued an
Man at the Helm
Nina Stibbe · 256 pages
Not long after her parents' divorce, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet DAILY TELEGRAPH and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel and her sister and little brother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is no wonder that she becomes a men
Bastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison · 309 pages
Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother's happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the stepfather begins abusing her in the 1950s.
Kira-Kira
Cynthia Kadohata · 244 pages
It is only kira kira for the sisters Katie and Lynn until they move to an entirely new locality.
Also Known As Harper
Ann Haywood Leal · 264 pages
Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn’t surprising, seeing as how she’s named after her mama’s favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up and walked out, leaving them broke. Then Harper’s family gets evicted. With Mama scrambling to find work, Harper has to skip school to care for her little brother, Hemingway. Their lives have been turn
The Mighty Miss Malone
Christopher Paul Curtis · 313 pages
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Francisco Jimenez · 134 pages
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.
All We Had
Annie Weatherwax · 265 pages
"For thirteen-year-old Ruthie Carmichael and her mother, Rita, life has never been stable. The only sure thing is their love for each other. Though Rita works more than one job, the pair teeters on the edge of poverty. When their landlord kicks them out, Rita resorts to her movie-star looks and produces carpet-installer Phil, "an instant boyfriend," who takes them in. Before long, Ruthie convinces
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Margaret Sidney · 226 pages
A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.
The Silver Star
Jeannette Walls · 304 pages
Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
One Two Three
Laurie Frankel · 408 pages
The Center of Everything
Laura Moriarty · 321 pages
The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon · 256 pages
Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, Subhi has only ever known life behind the fences. But his world is far bigger than that-every night, the magical Night Sea from his mother's stories brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories.
The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton · 328 pages
"I learned slowly, that if you don't look at the world with perfect vision, you're bound to get yourself cooked." Having come within an inch of her life, Ruth Dahl is determined to take a good look at it - to figure out whether, in fact, she's to blame for the mess." Pegged the loser in a small-town family that doesn't have much going for it in the first place. Ruth grows up in the shadow of her
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Jack Gantos · 160 pages
Dream On, Amber
Emma Shevah · 267 pages
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.
Imani All Mine
Connie Rose Porter · 212 pages
Imani All Mine brings together Connie Porter's insight into childhood and her firsthand knowledge of life in today's ghettoized world with the marvelously affecting story of Tasha, fifteen years old and the mother of a baby girl. "Mama say I'm grown now because I got Imani. She say Imani all mine. I know she all mine, and I like it just like that, not having to share my baby with no one." In her
Little Audrey
Ruth White · 145 pages
In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.