18 books like The Poet X
On The Come Up
Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn't always free.
Shares: Young Adult, 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: Adolescence, High school students, Schools, Children's fiction
Killing Mr. Griffin
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
Breakfast Served Anytime
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
Fade
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
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
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
Fly on the Wall
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
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: Hispanic americans, Children's fiction
Jason and Marceline
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
You Don't Know Me
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
I love him to pieces
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.
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Eleventh grade burns
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…
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The Luck of Troy
12 year old Nicostratus, carried off from Greece as a child with Helen, his mother, by Paris of Troy, helps Odysseus to conquer Troy for Greece.
Shares: Adolescence, Children's fiction
River Secrets (Books of Bayern #3)
Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
Shares: Self-esteem, Children's fiction
A long way from Verona
A young girl aspiring to be a writer recounts her experiences growing up in England during the Second World War.
Shares: Adolescence, Girls, Children's fiction
Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy #5)
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 door;…
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Zombie Baseball Beatdown
While practicing for their next baseball game, thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Miguel, and Joe discover that the nefarious activities of the Delbe, Iowa, meatpacking plant have caused cows to turn into zombies.
Shares: Hispanic americans, Children's fiction
The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror
Walter Galt, Winston Bongo, and their female friend Rat have an adventure involving a beatnik poet and a werewolf.
Shares: Poets, Children's fiction