18 books like A quiet kind of thunder

What to read after A quiet kind of thunder — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

My Darling, My Hamburger Paul Zindel · 1969 · ★ 3.6 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate From Goodreads: “ Four friends, Two couples, One year that will change their lives. Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing to take the first tentative steps toward a romance of their own. Yet before either couple can enjoy true happiness, life conspires… Shares: Youth, Love, Children's fiction

Camilla (Camilla #1) Madeleine L'Engle · 1951 · ★ 3.6 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Life had always been easy for fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson. But now her parents, whom she had always loved and trusted, are behaving like strangers to each other and vying for her allegiance. Camilla is torn between her love for them and her disapproval of their actions.Then she meets Frank, her best friend's brother, who helps her to feel that she is not alone. Can Camilla learn to accept… Shares: Youth, Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Girl Blake Nelson · 1994 · ★ 4.5 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate An account of three years in a teenage girl's life as she forges an identity between two contrasting worlds--her straight-laced school and Portland's underground music scene. Shares: Youth, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Running Loose Chris Crutcher · 1983 · ★ 3.8 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood. Shares: Youth, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The Tricksters Margaret Mahy · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again. Shares: Youth, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction

The distant summer Sarah Patterson · 1976 · ★ 3.5 · 169p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Set in England during world War II, this is the story of seventeen-year-old Kate who is courted by two young fliers - a sensitive, serious Englishman and a happy-go-lucky American. Shares: Love, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde · 1893 · ★ 4.2 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirises some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play. - [Wikipedia][1] [1]:… Shares: Youth, Love, Children's fiction

Reached (Matched Trilogy, Book 3) Ally Condie · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Cassia’s journey began with an error, a momentary glitch in the otherwise perfect façade of the Society. After crossing canyons to break free, she waits, silk and paper smuggled against her skin, ready for the final chapter. The wait is over. One young woman has raged against those who threaten to keep away what matters most -- family, love, choice. Her quiet revolution is about to explode into… Shares: Love, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction

The New Recruit Andy McNab · 2013 · ★ 4.8 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate What if your prank killed your best friend. Could you live with yourself? You try to forget and move on; you enrol in Army training, you want to make something of your life. The training is tough and it almost breaks you. But you survive; you know youâe(tm)ll make a good soldier. Finally, when youâe(tm)re out in Afghanistan, under enemy fire, you come face-to-face with your best friendâe(tm)s… Shares: Youth, Children's fiction

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner Stephenie Meyer · 2009 · ★ 3.9 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This novella tells the story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable… Shares: Love, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction

The Boyfriend Robert Lawrence Stine · 1990 · ★ 3.9 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A girl gets dumped by her "boyfriend" and gets angry... angry enough to kill him. Now he's back....back from the grave. Shares: Love, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction

The real question Adrian Fogelin · 2006 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old over-achiever, is on the verge of academic burnout when he impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs for one weekend and accompany his ne'er-do-well neighbor to an out-of-town job repairing a roof. Shares: Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Keeper Mal Peet · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate An extraordinary novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize.Paul Faustino, South America's top sports writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato – the Cat – the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup... In the hours that follow, El Gato tells his incredible story – how he, a poor logger's son, learns to become a… Shares: Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The miseducation of Cameron Post Emily M. Danforth · 2012 · ★ 4.1 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center. Shares: Youth, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The Complication Suzanne Young · 2018 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Tatum and Weston seek revenge against The Program in this heart-pounding final installment in Suzanne Young’s New York Times bestselling Program series—now with a reimagined look.Every cure has a cost.Tatum Masterson learned this after years of being monitored by The Program. She witnessed it when her boyfriend, Weston, came back changed, erased. The Adjustment came into Tatum’s life just when… Shares: Love, Children's fiction

Phantom Lisa Jane Smith · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Elena (18) en haar vrienden zijn terug in Fell's Church. Al snel gebeuren er onverklaarbare dingen en Elena voelt steeds sterker de aanwezigheid van de dode Damon. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar. Shares: Love, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction

While I Live John Marsden · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The follow-up to the bestselling Tomorrow seriesBOOK 1 IN THE ELLIE CHRONICLES TRILOGY"Addictive reading" Sydney Morning Herald"Australia's king of young adult fiction" The AustralianWe were halfway up the spur when we heard it. Homer and Gavin and I, just the three of us... I'd say there were fifteen shots in the first volley, evenly spaced, lasting about twenty-five seconds... All the way down… Shares: Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Destiny Rising Lisa Jane Smith · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Destiny: Rising is a free-to-play, massively multiplayer online video game developed and published by NetEase, with licensing from Bungie. A live service mobile game that is part of the ''Destiny'' series, it was released worldwide (with some exceptions) on August 28, 2025, for Android and iOS devices. The game is set in an alternate timeline, taking place many years prior to the events of the… Shares: Love, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction

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