18 books like Girl

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The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969 · ★ 4.4 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate [Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things I like about it is how… Shares: Community pick

Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway · 1927 · ★ 3.6 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A collection of short stories, including three or four regarded as among his best. The subjects are varied, with In Another Country about a member of the Ambulance Corps in Italy during WW1, The Killers a taut crime thriller about two hit-men and The Undefeated about a bullfighter in Spain. Shares: Community pick

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. Shares: Children's fiction

A quiet kind of thunder Sara Barnard · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 403p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's… Shares: Youth, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Gift Andrea J. Buchanan · 2012 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate While attempting to fit in at a new school and keep her gift a secret, Daisy and her friends must deal with chilling dreams and a manipulative ghost. Shares: High school students, High schools, 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, Teenage Girls, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Miki Falls - Autumn #3 Mark Crilley · 2007 · ★ 3.5 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Since Miki Yoshida gained Hiro Sakurai's confidence, she is resolved to keep his trust as he reveals more about his secret mission. Shares: High school students, High schools, Teenage Girls, 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, Teenage Girls, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The rest of us just live here Patrick Ness · 2001 · ★ 3.7 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are… Shares: Youth, High schools, 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, Teenage Girls, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Eleventh grade burns Z Brewer · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Things have taken a darker turn for the half-human teenager with an appetite for blood. Joss, a vampire slayer and Vlad's former friend, has moved back to Bathory. A mysterious and powerful new vampire, Dorian, appears with a shocking secret and an overwhelming desire to drink Vlad's blood. And Vlad's arch enemy, D'Ablo, has a sinister plan to eliminate Vlad once and for all. With death… Shares: High school students, High 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 school students, High schools, Children's fiction

The Prank Ashley Rae Harris · 2011 · ★ 3.0 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Bridgewater High junior Jordan, eager to fit in with a popular crowd, takes part in a series of pranks that go horribly wrong, and as she and her friend Charlie investigate, they begin to wonder if the spirit of a prank victim who died twenty years earlier is to blame. Shares: High school students, High schools, Children's fiction

Boy Who Owned the School Gary Paulsen · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Jacob Freisten's goal in life is to go about unnoticed. He's perfect at gliding past the jocks' lockers and sneaking into his English class. That was, until now. If Jacob wants to pass English, he must work for extra credit on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard of Oz. Jacob, who is usually in a fog anyway, has the the job of running the fog machine. The problem is that Maria… Shares: High schools, Children's fiction

Fat Angie e. E. Charlton-Trujillo · 2013 · ★ 4.2 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Angie is broken—by her can’t-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Having failed to kill herself—in front of a gym full of kids—Angie’s back at high school just trying to make it through each day. That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, a girl who knows too well that the package doesn’t… Shares: High school students, High schools, Children's fiction

Tenth Grade Bleeds Z Brewer · 2009 · ★ 4.2 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate It's another sucky year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod. The evil vampire D'Ablo is hunting for the ritual that could steal Vlad's powers. His best friend Henry doesn't want to be his drudge anymore. And as if all that weren't enough, it's getting harder for Vlad to resist feeding on the people around him. When months go by with no word from Uncle Otis and D'Ablo shows up demanding Vlad's… Shares: High school students, High schools, Children's fiction

I love him to pieces Evonne Tsang · 2011 · ★ 3.4 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run. Shares: High school students, High schools, Children's fiction

Twelfth grade kills Z Brewer · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The Council of Elders, having been informed that Tomas still lives, puts off Vlad's execution, providing Vlad the opportunity to try to set some things right. Shares: High school students, High schools, Children's fiction

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