18 books like Generation Dead

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Generation Dead Daniel Waters · 2009 · ★ 4.3 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Phoebe Kendall is just your typical Goth girl with a crush.  He’s strong and silent…and dead.   All over the country, a strange phenomenon is occurring.  Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead.  But when they come back to life, they are no longer the same. Feared and misunderstood, they are doing their best to blend into a society that doesn’t want… Shares: Prejudices, High schools, Death, Interpersonal relations

Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Moderate To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either… Shares: High schools, Interpersonal relations, Schools

Thirteen reasons why Jay Asher · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through… Shares: High schools, Interpersonal relations, Schools

Bone song John Meaney · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Hailed as "the first important new SF writer of the 21st century," John Meaney delivers a darkly luminous new thriller that blends futuristic noir with gothic fantasy. Here, in a city of the dead where desire is very much alive and murder a pleasure for connoisseurs, an honest cop must face his own darkest impulses just to have a prayer.There have been four victims already. Famed for their beauty… Shares: Death, Zombies

Haunted Meg Cabot · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Is it possible to be haunted by someone who isn't even dead? Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good. Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him. Fearing she'll lose Jesse… Shares: High schools, Death, Schools

Secrets Kate William · 1983 · ★ 3.5 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Beautiful and ruthless, Jessica Wakefield is determined to be chosen queen of the fall dance at Sweet Valley High. If she can win the contest, she's sure to win Bruce Patman, the most sought after boy in school. The only person standing in Jessica's way is Enid Rollins. When Jessica discovers the truth about Enid's past, she knows the crown is within her grasp. She doesn't care that Enid is… Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools

Thinking Dead Murali Balaji · 2013 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares: Death, Zombies

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help. Shares: High schools, Interpersonal relations, Schools

Eclipse Stephenie Meyer · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 632p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine -- like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle… Shares: High schools, Interpersonal relations, Schools

Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson · 1972 · ★ 4.1 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. Shares: Death, School Stories, Schools

Personal effects E. M. Kokie · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Matt has been sleepwalking through life while seeking answers about his brother T.J.'s death in Iraq, but after discovering that he may not have known his brother as well as he thought he did, Matt is able to stand up to his father, honor T.J.'s memory, and take charge of his own life. Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney · 2007 · ★ 4.5 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Greg Heffley finds thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings like him share the hallways with much bigger kids who are already shaving. But nothing scares Greg more than the moldy piece of cheese on the blacktop. Can he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, make it through the year without getting the Cheese Touch? Shares: Interpersonal relations, School Stories, Schools

Dead ends Erin Jade Lange · 2001 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When Dane, a bully, refuses to hit Billy D because he has Down Syndrome, Billy takes that as a sign of friendship and enlists Dane's help in solving riddles left in an atlas by his missing father, sending the pair on a risky adventure. Shares: High schools, School Stories, Schools

Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash Trinka Hakes Noble · 1980 · ★ 4.2 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. Shares: School Stories, Schools

Mike and Psmith P. G. Wodehouse · 1935 · ★ 4.0 · 171p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Gloomy when his poor scholastic record forces him to change schools just as he is about to become captain of the cricket team, an English boy cheers up when he discovers another new boy in similar circumstances. Shares: School Stories, Schools

Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger's, she doesn't know how. When she reads the definition of closure, she realizes that is what she… Shares: Death, Schools

A Separate Peace John Knowles · 1966 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over sixty years, A Separate Peace is timeless coming-of-age novel about friendship, rivalry, and adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War… Shares: Death, Schools

Gilda Joyce Jennifer Allison · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When her best friend, Wendy Choy, qualifies to compete in an international piano competition in Oxford, England, irrepressible Gilda Joyce finds a way to get an invitation herself—as a page-turner. Wendy settles into an exhausting practice schedule, made worse by strange nightmares, while Gilda finds herself falling in love with a British boy. But when Wendy discovers a ghostly message written in… Shares: High schools, Schools

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