18 books like It's Not Summer Without You

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The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han · 2000 · ★ 4.2 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This book is fresh fun and exciting. 15 year Belly Conklin is enjoying another summer with the people that she loves in Cousins, a place she's been going to since she was a baby! The fishers, Aka Jerimiah and Conrad, are finally grown up, and Belly feels like she can fit in aswell. Belly would be turning 16 this year, as now she feels as if she can fit in with the boys. She thinks the summer will… Shares: Beaches, Seashore, Summer, Interpersonal relations

Swim the Fly Don Calame · 2009 · ★ 4.6 Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time—quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl on a date. But that goal starts to look easy compared to Matt's other aspiration: swimming the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) to… Shares: Summer, Vacations, Interpersonal relations, Bildungsromans

Winnie At the Seaside Valerie Thomas · 2005 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Winnie decides she needs a seaside break, so she and Wilbur zoom off to the coast. Winnie makes a beeline for the sea to cool down. Wilbur makes a beeline for anywhere other than the sea-he hates water, and can't bear getting wet. Winnie is having so much fun in the water that she doesn't notice her broomstick being washed out to sea. She waves her magic wand in an attempt to get the broomstick… Shares: Beaches, Seashore, Children's fiction

Amber Cat (First Book) Hilary McKay · 1995 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Moderate While recovering from chicken pox, Robin and his friends are drawn into his mother's story about the adventures she and her friends had years ago with an unusual girl who mysteriously appeared on the nearby beach. Shares: Seashore, Friendship, 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: Summer, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Farlig midsommar Tove Jansson · 1955 · ★ 4.3 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A flood hits Moomin Valley and triggers a series of adventures for the Moomins. Shares: Summer, Children's fiction

Breakfast Served Anytime Sarah Combs · 2014 · ★ 3.6 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted and talented students, Gloria struggles with the recent loss of her grandmother while trying to meet new friends and make the best of her new circumstances. Shares: Summer, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship

Last Vampire Willis Hall · 1982 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: Vacations, 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: Grief, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship

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: Grief, Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The goodbye season Marian Hale · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family. Shares: Grief, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, 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, Bildungsromans, 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, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Secrets and shadows Shannon Delany · 2011 · ★ 3.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When creatures other than werewolves begin prowling the streets of Junction, Jess Gillmansen watches new alliances form and others fall apart as the group must make hard choices. Shares: Grief, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction

The Temptress four Gaby Triana · 2008 · ★ 3.6 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Four best friends, one graduation cruise, a week of partying. Eight days of strife and storms . . .It's supposed to be the best eight days of their lives.Bonds will be broken... But when a fortune-teller predicts trouble the night before their trip, One of you will not come home...Fiona, Killian, Alma, and Yoli are left on edge, wondering what it could all mean. Gaby Triana gets right to the… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship, 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: Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Strega Nona Takes a Vacation Tomie dePaola · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Strega Nona sends home gifts of candy and bubble bath while on vacation, but when Bambolona grabs the candy, Big Anthony is left with a lot of bubbles. Shares: Vacations, Children's fiction

After Tupac and D Foster Jacqueline Woodson · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died.The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship, Children's fiction

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