18 books like Girl

What to read after Girl — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

A quiet kind of thunder Sara Barnard · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 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

Youth in Revolt C. D. Payne · 1993 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The hilarious, take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical, sex-obsessed teenager's pining love for an intelligent girl-- now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael CeraSIX MONTHS IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS TEENAGERYouth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal… Shares Youth, High school students, Coming-of-age

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 · ★ 3.0 · 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 · 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

Big girl small Rachel DeWoskin · 2011 · ★ 3.3 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, Judy should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? A scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and profound. Shares High school students, Teenage Girls, Coming-of-age

Annie John Jamaica Kincaid · 1983 · ★ 3.7 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Since her first, prize-winning collection of stories, *At the Bottom of the River*, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. *The New York Times* hailed her "prophetic power" and the *Los Angeles Times Book Review* said: "No one else seems to be writing quite this way right now." With *Annie John*, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open… Shares Teenage Girls, Coming-of-age

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

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

The rest of us just live here Patrick Ness · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 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 Magician Sol Stein · 1971 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This is a tale of two magicians, of high school extortion and violence, and of a criminal trial in which the guilty go free. Shares High school students, High schools

To die in spring Ralf Rothmann · 2017 · ★ 3.0 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier. Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son -- the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel -- is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however,… Shares Youth, Coming-of-age

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

Inbetween Tara Fuller · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Teenage Girls, Children's fiction with this book.

Fly on the Wall E. Lockhart · 2006 · ★ 3.3 · 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

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

The Prank Ashley Rae Harris · 2011 · ★ 3.0 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Light 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

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