AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Ink Is Thicker Than Water

Amy Spalding · back to the book

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 author
❤️

Little & Lion

Brandy Colbert · 341 pages

When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. LA is where her friends and family are (along with her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her emotional support. But as she settles into her old life, Suzette finds herself falling for someone new; the same girl h

Blended FamilyComing of AgeYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
❤️

Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen · 427 pages

"Ruby, where is your mother?"Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she's been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.That's how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasn't seen in ten years, and Cora's husband Jamie, whose down-to-earth demeanor makes it hard for Ruby to believe he founded the most popular netw

Blended FamilyComing of AgeYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
❤️

Including Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Nick Vaccaro · 277 pages

First semester of 10th Grade (Sylvia and Ben get married. Alice contemplates the value of social customs.)

Blended FamilyComing of AgeYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
❤️

Zoe's Tale

John Scalzi · 320 pages

Zoë Boutin-Perry travels to the fledgling colony world of Roanoke with her adoptive parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan, who have accepted positions as administrators. When her biological father develops the technology to give the Obin consciousness and self-awareness, she suddenly becomes the center of a critical but endangered treaty between the Obin and the Colonial Union.

Blended FamilyAdoptionComing of AgeYoung Adult
🙂

Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell · 336 pages

## Two misfits. One extraordinary love. ## ---------- ## Eleanor ## ...Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough... Eleanor. ## Park ## ...He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. T

Blended FamilyComing of AgeYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
🙂

North of Beautiful

Justina Chen

As he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, But you were the one who wanted this, remember? You're the one who asked-and I repeat-Why not fix your face? It's hard not to notice Terra Cooper. She's tall, blond, and has an enviable body. But with one turn of her cheek, all people notice is her unmistakably "flawed" face. Terra secretly plans to leave her stifling small

AdoptionComing of AgeYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
🙂

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson · 176 pages

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves.

AdoptionComing of AgeFirst Person NarratorIdentity Formation
🙂

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

Blended FamilyComing of AgeContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

Goggle-Eyes

Anne Fine · 160 pages

Blended FamilyComing of AgeContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

How to Build a House

Dana Reinhardt · 227 pages

HARPER'S DAD IS getting a divorce from her beloved stepmother, Jane. Even worse, Harper has lost her stepsister, Tess; the divorce divides them. Harper decides to escape by joining a volunteer program to build a house for a family in Tennessee who lost their home in a tornado. Not that she knows a thing about construction.Soon she's living in a funky motel and working long days in blazing heat wit

Blended FamilyYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

Ginny Moon

Benjamin Ludwig · 384 pages

Blended FamilyAdoptionContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

Wild Roses

Deb Caletti

Blended FamilyYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

Silence is Goldfish

Annabel Pitcher · 384 pages

"Fifteen-year-old Tess Turner of Manchester, England, decides to stop speaking in the wake of discovering a heartbreaking family secret"--

AdoptionYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

Cuba 15

Nancy Osa · 304 pages

Coming of AgeYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

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

Blended FamilyContemporary FictionYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
🙂

The Book of Lost Things

John Connolly · 352 pages

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strang

Blended FamilyAdoptionComing of Age
🙂

The Usual Rules

Joyce Maynard · 400 pages

"It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn - a perfect September day. Wendy's heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the ne

Blended FamilyComing of AgeContemporary FictionYoung Adult
🙂

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?

Melissa Kantor · 301 pages

Wicked stepmother? Check. Evil stepsisters? Check. Miserable life? Check. Lucy Norton’s life has all the makings of a Cinderella story. Her dad’s always away on business, leaving Lucy with her cruel stepmother and bratty stepsisters. She’s burdened with chores, and has a hard time fitting in at her new school. So when she sees Connor Pearson, the star player on the varsity basketball team, Lucy

Blended FamilyYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

Without Merit

Colleen Hoover · 384 pages

*Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.* The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings ar

Blended FamilyYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

Glorious Rivals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 432 pages

Coming of AgeYoung AdultContemporary FictionIdentity Formation
🙂

Prep

Curtis Sittenfeld · 427 pages

Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate famil

Coming of AgeYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorContemporary Fiction
🙂

Like Mandarin

Kirsten Hubbard

When shy, awkward fourteen-year-old Grace Carpenter is paired with the beautiful and wild Mandarin on a school project, an unlikely, explosive friendship begins, but all too soon, Grace discovers that Mandarin is a very troubled, even dangerous, girl.

Coming of AgeYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

This Side of Home

Renee Watson · 339 pages

Twins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood and the new--white--family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted.

Coming of AgeYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
🙂

The Wrong Side of Right

Jenn Marie Thorne · 416 pages

After her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Kate Quinn meets the father she did not know she had, joins his presidential campaign, falls for a rebellious boy, and when what she truly believes flies in the face of the campaign's talking points, Kate must decide what is best.

Coming of AgeYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.