18 books like Boy Who Owned the School

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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac Gabrielle Zevin · 2007 · ★ 3.7 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life. Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Lock-in Jonathan Mary-Todd · 2011 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Moderate When a high school lock-in, meant to ease tensions between the lacrosse team and a group that likes to play werewolf, goes awry, Jackie does not know if she is safer in the panic of the dark hallways or with the crazed student council president determined to maintain control. Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

How to Be Popular Meg Cabot · 2006 · ★ 3.6 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Does being popular matter? It matters very much—to Steph. That's why this year, she has a plan to get in with the It Crowd in no time flat. She's got a secret weapon: an old book called—what else?—How to Be Popular. What does it take to be popular? All Steph has to do is follow the instructions in The Book, and soon she'll be partying with the It Crowd (including school quarterback Mark… Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Jumped Rita Williams-Garcia · 2009 · ★ 3.4 The wrong angleTrina: "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. The boyed-up basketball girl barely moves. The others, her girls, step aside. It's okay if they don't speak. I know how it is. They can't all be Trina.Dominique: Some stupid little flit cuts right in between us and is like, "Hey." Like she don't see I'm here and all the space around me is mines. I slam my fist into my other hand… Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Full Moon Kisses Ellen Schreiber · 2012 · ★ 3.9 This enticing paranormal romance featuring werewolves and the popular girl who loves them is a great conclusion to the Full Moon series.What will Celeste do now that both her heroic boyfriend, Brandon, and her popular ex-boyfriend, Nash, are werewolves? And someone wants to turn her into a werewolf, too. Life is complicated under Legend Run's full moon.Perfect for fans of Ellen Schreiber's New… Shares: High schools, Schools, Children's fiction

Be more chill Ned Vizzini · 2004 · ★ 3.6 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants. Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

One Of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of… Shares: High schools, Schools, Children's fiction

The day the teacher went bananas James Howe · 1984 · ★ 4.3 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A class's new teacher, who leads the children in a number of very popular activities, turns out to be a gorilla. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Perfect Sara Shepard · 2007 · ★ 3.9 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In a town where gossip thrives like the ivy that clings to its mansions, where mysteries lie behind manicured hedges and skeletons hide in every walk-in closet, four perfect-looking girls aren't nearly as perfect as they seem. Three years ago, Spencer, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and their best friend Alison were the girls at Rosewood Day School. They clicked through the halls in their Miu Miu flats,… Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Wildlife Fiona Wood · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves. Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

A Flying Birthday Cake? Louis Sachar · 1999 · ★ 3.7 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Two days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing like a flying birthday cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Fly on the Wall E. Lockhart · 2006 · ★ 3.2 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate At the Manhattan School for Art and Music, where everyone is "different" and everyone is "special," Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She's the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so she won't have to talk to anyone; who has a crush on Titus but won't do anything about it; who has no one to hang out with when her best (and only real) friend Katya is busy.One day,… Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

The Carrie diaries Candace Bushnell · 2010 · ★ 3.9 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became a writer. Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Deadline Chris Crutcher · 2007 · ★ 4.1 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world.How can a pint-sized, smart-ass seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho? First, Ben makes sure that no one else knows what is going on — not his superstar quarterback brother, Cody, not his… Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

The Misfits James Howe · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make 'em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there's one more kid out there who's going to need a gang to be a part of. A misfit, like… Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel Sara Farizan · 2014 · ★ 3.4 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When Leila develops a crush on a new female student she has to decide if her sexuality is something she wants to share with everyone else. Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Ghoulfriends til the End Gitty Daneshvari · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Ghoul Alert at Monster High! Wydowna Spider revealed top secret information to Rochelle Goyle, Robecca Steam and Venus McFlytrap: a few fantastic creatures have formed a mysterious society whose objective is to pit ghouls against each other. The ghouls then decide to continue their investigation to learn more. And it looks like the stylish heritage of one of our favorite ghouls may be the… Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Going Rogue Robin Benway · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Being permanently based in a local New York City high school as an undercover operative has its moments, good and bad, for 16-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver. Pros: More quality time with her former mark-turned-boyfriend Jesse Oliver and insanely cool best friend, Roux. Getting to spend quality time with her semi-retired and international spy honorary uncle, Angelo. Cons: High school and… Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

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