18 books like No Laughter Here
After Tupac and D Foster
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: African Americans, New york, Coming-of-age, Friendship
The Meanest Thing to Say
When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest things possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends.
Shares: Schools -- Fiction, Schools, Children's fiction
Unbelievable
Four pretty little liars' charmed lives have turned into living nightmares.
Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars—because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: She's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much.
If these girls don't start listening to me,…
Shares: Friendship -- Fiction, Schools, Friendship, Children's fiction
Muggie Maggie
Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her.
Shares: Schools -- Fiction, Schools, Friendship, Children's fiction
Ghosts of Fear Street - Who's Been Sleeping In My Grave?
Shadyside Middle School's newest substitute teacher is a wandering spirit wondering who's been defiling her gravesite. But how can Zack Pepper destroy someone who is already dead?
Shares: Schools -- Fiction, Schools, Children's fiction
Night of the living zombie bugs
Now that they are Eagle Scouts, Speed Bump and Slingshot must summon the courage to face the zombie bugs infesting their forest.
Shares: Friendship -- Fiction, Friendship, Children's fiction
Freya and the Magic Jewel (Thunder Girls Book 1)
Unlike her twin brother Frey, twelve-year-old girlgoddess Freya is not excited about their invitation to Asgard Academy, especially after she loses her magical jewel, leaving her powerless and worried about making friends.
Shares: Schools, Friendship, Children's fiction
Maizon at Blue Hill
After winning a scholarship to an academically challenging boarding school, Maizon finds herself one of only five blacks there and wonders if she will ever fit in. Sequel to "Last Summer with Maizon."
Shares: African Americans, Schools, Children's fiction
Leo
Leo is a friendly house ghost--but when a family moves into his house, and tries to get rid of him, he leaves and roams the city looking for a friend.
Shares: Friendship -- Fiction, Friendship, Children's fiction
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth
Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
Shares: African Americans, Friendship, Children's fiction
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Shares: Schools -- Fiction, Schools, Children's fiction
Downsiders
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon, who lives in the secret Downsider community that evolved in the subterranean passages of the subway built in New York in 1867, she and her new friend try to bridge the differences between their two cultures.
Shares: New york, Coming-of-age, Friendship, Children's fiction
What I Was
In the 1960s, off the coast of East Anglia, a disgruntled boarding school student develops an obsessive friendship with a boy living by himself at the edge of the sea.
Shares: Coming-of-age, Schools, Friendship, Children's fiction
Gift
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: Coming-of-age, Schools, Friendship, Children's fiction
Dragons in a Bag
When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she s not his grandmother but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical world where they ll be safe.
Shares: African Americans, Children's fiction
The Misfits
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: Schools, Friendship, Children's fiction
Night of the zombie zookeeper
For this case, we re off to the zoo! Zoo field trips are the best. You get to ride in a bus, you get to spend the day outside, and all the animals are safely far away in their enclosures. Nothing scary here, right? Wrong! Leave it to Desmond Cole to find the one zookeeper who s also a zombie.
Shares: African Americans, Friendship, Children's fiction
Sisters in Sanity
"Where are they taking me?""It's for your own good, Brit," Dad said.I was shoved into a small, stuffy room, and the door was locked behind me. I waited for my dad to realize he'd made a terrible mistake and come get me.But he didn't.For sixteen-year-old Brit Hemphill, it's hard to know who she can trust. Convinced she's out of control, her father has sentenced her to Red Rock: a center for…
Shares: Coming-of-age, Friendship, Children's fiction