18 books like Parrot in the Oven

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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before. Shares Mexican American families, Mexican Americans, Family life, Bildungsromans

The porcupine of truth Bill Konigsberg · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their… Shares Children of alcoholics, Alcoholism, Family life, Bildungsromans

The bent twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher · 1915 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Unlike other young women of her generation, who were "bred up from childhood to sit behind tea-tables and say the right things to tea-drinkers," Sylvia Marshall - the "twig" of this novel - was reared to think for herself and to trust her own instincts and experience. This, coupled with her passionate temperament, makes Sylvia a compelling figure as she resists efforts to mold her with every… Shares Bildungsromans, Family, Families

The meaning of Maggie Megan Jean Sovern · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment she is also facing a lot of problems--like starting middle school and figuring out how to help her father who is out of work and in a wheelchair. Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment, she is also facing a lot of problems, such as… Shares Family life, Bildungsromans, Family, Coming-of-age

Sami and the time of the troubles Florence Parry Heide · 1992 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street. Shares Family life, Families, 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 Family life, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Families

Alice, I Think Susan Juby · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis." Shares Family life, Family, Coming-of-age, Families

The Book of the Banshee Anne Fine · 1991 · ★ 3.5 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Will Flowers doesn't understand what could have happened. His sister, Estelle, used to be really cool. She was quiet, responsible, and most times you'd never even know she was around(which was the cool part). But lately, Estelle has been acting totally weird - to everyone. All she does is get mad and yell. She yells at Mom. She yells at Dad. She even yells at little Muffy. But mostly she yells at… Shares Family life, Family, Families, Children's fiction

Alice in April Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate While trying to survive seventh grade, Alice discovers that turning thirteen will make her the Woman of the House at home, so she starts a campaign to get more appreciated for taking care of her father and older brother. Shares Family life, Family, Families, Children's fiction

On the Banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1937 · ★ 4.2 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers. Shares Family life, Family, Families, Children's fiction

What I saw and how I lied Judy Blundell · 2008 · ★ 3.5 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever. Shares Family life, Family, Coming-of-age, Families

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 Family relationships, Family life, Families

Now I'll Tell You Everything Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 536p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Book 25 of the Alice series. This book covers Alice's life from college to age 60. Shares Family life, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Families

Life Mal Peet · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations. Shares Family life, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Families

Benny And Omar Eoin Colfer · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In my old school, we had fighting, no pool and there'd be vicious matches against the other schools . . . I miss all that stuff!"Moving to Africa is the worst thing that has ever happened to Benny Shaw. No one plays hurling (the best game on the planet) and the local school is run by hippies who like to talk about feelings. As if.But when Benny meets wisecracking Omar (the name's Bond, James… Shares Family life, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Voices Ursula K. Le Guin · 2006 · ★ 3.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors. Shares Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

All the ugly and wonderful things Bryn Greenwood · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing… Shares Family life, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age

Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 493p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "The teller of this tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early l960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At… Shares Bildungsromans

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