18 books like The Poet X

What to read after The Poet X — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Killing Mr. Griffin Lois Duncan · 1978 · ★ 3.6 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The plan was only to scare their English teacher... They never actually intended to *kill* Mr. Griffin. But sometimes plans go wrong. Shares Adolescence, High school students, Schools, Young Adult

Gift Andrea J. Buchanan · 2012 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 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 Adolescence, High school students, Schools, Children's fiction

The Reappearance of Rachel Price Holly Jackson · 2024 · ★ 4.1 · 443p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead. The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears,… Shares Young Adult, Children's fiction

How to Talk to Boys Dianne Todaro · 2011 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Self-esteem, Girls, Interpersonal relations with this book.

Among the Imposters (Shadow Children #2) Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Luke Garner is terrified. Out of hiding for the first time, he knows that any minute one of his new classmates could discover his secret: that he's a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. And in a society where it's illegal for families to have more than two children, being a third child means certain death at the hands of the dreaded Population Police. His first experience… Shares Interpersonal relations, Young Adult, Children's fiction

A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905 · ★ 4.2 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a… Shares Girls, Schools, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Be more chill Ned Vizzini · 2004 · ★ 3.6 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants. Shares Interpersonal relations, Schools, Young Adult, Children's fiction

A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch (The Worst Witch #3) Jill Murphy · 1982 · ★ 4.1 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Although her second year at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches starts off better than her first, Mildred Hubble soon regains her reputation as the worst witch in the school when she and Ethel Hallow resume feuding. Shares Schools, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Fade Robert Cormier · 1988 · ★ 3.8 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate IT IS THE summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can "fade." First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his "gift" soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act."Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man, and you'll have an idea how good Fade is. . . . I was absolutely… Shares Adolescence, Children's fiction

You Don't Know Me David Klass · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school. Shares High school students, Interpersonal relations, Schools, Young Adult

Fly on the Wall E. Lockhart · 2006 · ★ 3.3 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate At the Manhattan School for Art and Music, where everyone is "different" and everyone is "special," Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She's the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so she won't have to talk to anyone; who has a crush on Titus but won't do anything about it; who has no one to hang out with when her best (and only real) friend Katya is busy.One day,… Shares High school students, Interpersonal relations, Schools, Children's fiction

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. Shares Adolescence, Girls, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Midnight over Sanctaphrax Paul Stewart · 2001 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Twig has the caterbird tethered to his ship, the edgedancer, and is being led into a storm never seen before, on his way to find his father. Twig soon learns that this storm is the mother storm, and that the mythical place, called riverisse is real. And is torn between a simple yet complicated choice. Cut the anchor chain of sanctaphrax, and all of the edges knowledge, to save riverisse, or have… Shares Young Adult, Children's fiction

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 Girls, Schools, Young Adult

Jason and Marceline Jerry Spinelli · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The further adventures of Jason Herkimer as he tries to cope with three important things in his life: his relationship with Marceline McAllister, his peer group, and his burgeoning sexuality. Shares Adolescence, Interpersonal relations, Schools, Children's fiction

Eleventh grade burns Z Brewer · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Things have taken a darker turn for the half-human teenager with an appetite for blood. Joss, a vampire slayer and Vlad's former friend, has moved back to Bathory. A mysterious and powerful new vampire, Dorian, appears with a shocking secret and an overwhelming desire to drink Vlad's blood. And Vlad's arch enemy, D'Ablo, has a sinister plan to eliminate Vlad once and for all. With death… Shares High school students, Schools, Young Adult, 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 Adolescence, High school students, Girls, Children's fiction

Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy #5) Maud Hart Lovelace · 1945 · ★ 4.3 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate High School is Heaven! It's Betsy Ray's freshman year at Deep Valley High School, and she and her best childhood chum, Tacy Kelly, are loving every minute. Betsy and Tacy find themselves in the midst of a new crowd of friends, with studies aplenty (including Latin and--ugh--algebra), parties and picnics galore, Sunday night lunches at home--and boys! There's Cab Edwards, the jolly boy next… Shares Girls, Schools, Children's fiction

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