18 books like Scarlett fever

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

Dead is a state of mind Marlene Perez · 2009 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate When a gorgeous new student's prediction that a teacher will be murdered comes true, seventeen-year-old Daisy is determined to solve the crime, but when all signs point to the killer being a werewolf, she fears she is in over her head. Shares: High schools in fiction, Family life in fiction, Schools in fiction, High schools

Secrets Kate William · 1983 · ★ 3.5 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Beautiful and ruthless, Jessica Wakefield is determined to be chosen queen of the fall dance at Sweet Valley High. If she can win the contest, she's sure to win Bruce Patman, the most sought after boy in school. The only person standing in Jessica's way is Enid Rollins. When Jessica discovers the truth about Enid's past, she knows the crown is within her grasp. She doesn't care that Enid is… Shares: High schools in fiction, Schools in fiction, High schools, Schools

Spaceheadz Jon Scieszka · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth. Shares: Family life in fiction, Schools in fiction, Family life, Families

Reluctantly Alice Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives. Shares: Family life in fiction, Schools in fiction, Family life, Schools

Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants Louise Rennison · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The further confessions of teenaged Georgia Nicolson continue as, among other things, she begins to wonder if Robbie is really the right boy for her. Shares: Dating, Family life, Families, Young Adult

Thirteen reasons why Jay Asher · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through… Shares: Schools in fiction, High schools, Schools, Young Adult

Rex Zero and the end of the world Tim Wynne-Jones · 2006 · ★ 3.5 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him. Shares: Family life in fiction, Family life, Families

Haunted Meg Cabot · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Is it possible to be haunted by someone who isn't even dead? Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good. Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him. Fearing she'll lose Jesse… Shares: Schools in fiction, High schools, Schools, Young Adult

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 life, Families, Schools, Young Adult

Vampire Academy Richelle Mead · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's-the very place where they're most in danger...Rose and Lissa… Shares: Schools in fiction, High schools, Schools, Young Adult

Sounder William H. Armstrong · 1969 · ★ 4.0 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder. Shares: Family life in fiction, Family life

Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash Trinka Hakes Noble · 1980 · ★ 4.2 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. Shares: Schools in fiction, Schools

Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Moderate To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either… Shares: High schools, Schools, Young Adult

A Northern Light Jennifer Donnelly · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. Shares: Hotels, Young Adult

Harriet Spies Again Helen Ericson · 2002 · ★ 3.9 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Harriet M. Welsch is up to her old spying tricks when her beloved nanny Ole Golly, who had married and moved to Montreal, returns without her husband, Harriet's friend Sport announces he has a crush on a schoolmate, and the people across the street appear to be holding a child hostage. Shares: Family life, Families, Schools

Generation Dead Daniel Waters · 2008 · ★ 4.3 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Phoebe Kendall is just your typical Goth girl with a crush.  He’s strong and silent…and dead.   All over the country, a strange phenomenon is occurring.  Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead.  But when they come back to life, they are no longer the same. Feared and misunderstood, they are doing their best to blend into a society that doesn’t want… Shares: High schools, Schools

Ramona the Pest Beverly Cleary · 1968 · ★ 4.1 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Ramona the Pest, by Beverly Cleary, is the second book of the Ramona series and the first to focus on Ramona Quimby as the protagonist. This children's book chronicles the adventures of Ramona's first few months at kindergarten. The book's title is derived from the characterization of Ramona as a "pest" by many, including her older sister Beatrice, known as "Beezus." Ramona the Pest was first… Shares: Family life, Families, Schools

Twilight Stephenie Meyer · 2005 · ★ 3.7 · 498p · ≈ 16h · Moderate About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him -- and I didn't know how dominant that part might be -- that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and… Shares: High schools, Schools, Young Adult

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