18 books like The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Everyone has something to hide—especially high school juniors Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna. Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful. But they've all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished. How do I know? Because I know everything about… Shares: Teenage fiction, High schools, Young Adult

I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith · 1948 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chronic case of writer's block and her glamorous but bohemian stepmother Topaz is a sometime artist model. Money is in short supply but Cassandra and her discontented older sister Rose are forced to make… Shares: Diary fiction, Diaries, Young Adult

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Sue Townsend · 1984 · ★ 4.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault.'Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. Shares: Diary fiction, Diaries, Young Adult

Het Achterhuis Anne Frank · 1944 · ★ 4.2 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Het Achterhuis is de titel van het dagboek van Anne Frank (1929-1945) voor het eerst uitgegeven op 25 juni 1947. Het is genoemd naar het onderduikpand Het Achterhuis op de Prinsengracht en is het verhaal van een ondergedoken jong Joods meisje ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het is wereldwijd een van de meest gelezen boeken. Sinds 2009 staat Annes dagboek op de Werelderfgoedlijst voor… Shares: Race Relations, Diaries

The FitzOsbornes in exile Michelle Cooper · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 460p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever. Shares: Diary fiction, Diaries, Young Adult

The Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene · 1973 · ★ 4.0 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And… Shares: Teenage fiction, Young Adult

One Thousand White Women Jim Fergus · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's… Shares: Diary fiction, Indians of North America

Tenjho Tenge Oh! Great · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Ikki Minami is a junior high school student with a dream – to become the best Air Trek rider in town. It won’t be easy, as he faces a lot of competition from boys and girls alike. What is Air Trek? Just the latest craze that involves taking a two-wheel inline skate and adding a motor, suspension and a shock absorber to enable the wearer to execute the wildest, wackiest, most aggressive moves you… Shares: High schools, Comics & graphic novels

A diary in America Frederick Marryat · 1839 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "First appeared in June 1839...in three volumes, with three supplementary volumes appearing later in the year... In preparing this edition...I have used both the first and second series." Shares: Diaries, Indians of North America

The Black Pearl Scott O’Dell · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Moderate In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner. Shares: Indians of North America, Young Adult

Adrian Mole Sue Townsend · 1999 · ★ 4.5 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate He's back. Aged 30¼. Twenty-first century Mole. Now in his thirties, Adrian's still worrying: Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy? Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as a celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate novelist? Is there a place for Adrian Mole in Blair's Brave New Britain? 'Thank goodness for his… Shares: Diary fiction, Young Adult

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, Young Adult

The Long Haul Jeff Kinney · 2014 · ★ 4.3 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun... Unless, of course, you’re the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig — not exactly Greg Heffley’s idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure — and this is one the Heffleys won’t soon… Shares: Diaries, Comics & graphic novels

The Angel and the Author Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1908 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The adventures of an author as she confronts her guardian angel.Jerome does a wonderful job of sharing the thoughts and feelings of a young writer in London during the late 19th century. Shares: Young Adult

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: Diaries, Young Adult

Stand by for Mars! Carey Rockwell · 1952 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Moderate STAND BY FOR MARS! finds the three young "rocketeers" at the Space Academy undergoing the arduous training of Space Cadets. When their tactical training cruise crash lands on Mars, their desperate adventures on the planet of burning deserts and endless canals will make them seasoned veteran spacemen -- if they live long enough for rescue!STAND BY FOR MARS is the first in the Tom Corbet, Space… Shares: Young Adult

Up the Line Robert Silverberg · 1969 · ★ 3.7 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly… Shares: Young Adult

Tales from a not-so-happy heartbreaker Rachel Renée Russell · 2013 · ★ 4.3 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance." Shares: Diaries, Comics & graphic novels

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