18 books like The Summer I Turned Pretty

What to read after The Summer I Turned Pretty — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

It's Not Summer Without You Jenny Han · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever. Shares: Beaches, Seashore, Summer, Interpersonal relations

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: Realistic fiction, Summer, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age

Winnie At the Seaside Valerie Thomas · 2005 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Winnie decides she needs a seaside break, so she and Wilbur zoom off to the coast. Winnie makes a beeline for the sea to cool down. Wilbur makes a beeline for anywhere other than the sea-he hates water, and can't bear getting wet. Winnie is having so much fun in the water that she doesn't notice her broomstick being washed out to sea. She waves her magic wand in an attempt to get the broomstick… Shares: Beaches, Seashore, Children's fiction

Amber Cat (First Book) Hilary McKay · 1995 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Moderate While recovering from chicken pox, Robin and his friends are drawn into his mother's story about the adventures she and her friends had years ago with an unusual girl who mysteriously appeared on the nearby beach. Shares: Seashore, Friendship, Children's fiction

Swim the Fly Don Calame · 2009 · ★ 4.6 Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time—quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl on a date. But that goal starts to look easy compared to Matt's other aspiration: swimming the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) to… Shares: Summer, Interpersonal relations, Bildungsromans, Friendship

The distant summer Sarah Patterson · 1976 · ★ 3.5 · 169p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Set in England during world War II, this is the story of seventeen-year-old Kate who is courted by two young fliers - a sensitive, serious Englishman and a happy-go-lucky American. Shares: Summer, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Farlig midsommar Tove Jansson · 1955 · ★ 4.3 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A flood hits Moomin Valley and triggers a series of adventures for the Moomins. Shares: Summer, Children's fiction

Wildlife Fiona Wood · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves. Shares: Teenage Girls, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship

Fearless Francine Pascal · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate As a child who grew up in many different homes after her mother died and her father left her, Gaia Moore struggles in life to accept who she is in her newest foster home, in New York. As she goes along, Eddie, a handicap boy, befriends her (she doesn't befriend him). She also struggles with her new foster mom, who, although in her forties, acts as though she's still a teen. What no one really… Shares: Teenage Girls, Bildungsromans, Friendship, Children's fiction

Ellen Tebbits Beverly Cleary · 1951 · ★ 4.0 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Ellen Tebbits is a 1951 children's novel written by Beverly Cleary. It is Cleary's second published book, following Henry Huggins. This humorous realistic fiction story tells the adventures of young Ellen and the new girl in her school, Austine Allen. Shares: Realistic fiction, Friendship, Children's fiction

The real question Adrian Fogelin · 2006 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old over-achiever, is on the verge of academic burnout when he impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs for one weekend and accompany his ne'er-do-well neighbor to an out-of-town job repairing a roof. Shares: Interpersonal relations, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Keeper Mal Peet · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate An extraordinary novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize.Paul Faustino, South America's top sports writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato – the Cat – the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup... In the hours that follow, El Gato tells his incredible story – how he, a poor logger's son, learns to become a… Shares: Interpersonal relations, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The Temptress four Gaby Triana · 2008 · ★ 3.6 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Four best friends, one graduation cruise, a week of partying. Eight days of strife and storms . . .It's supposed to be the best eight days of their lives.Bonds will be broken... But when a fortune-teller predicts trouble the night before their trip, One of you will not come home...Fiona, Killian, Alma, and Yoli are left on edge, wondering what it could all mean. Gaby Triana gets right to the… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship, Children's fiction

A quiet kind of thunder Sara Barnard · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 403p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's… Shares: Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, 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: Realistic fiction, Interpersonal relations, Children's fiction

After Tupac and D Foster Jacqueline Woodson · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died.The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship, Children's fiction

Voices Ursula K. Le Guin · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 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

Benny And Omar Eoin Colfer · 2001 · ★ 3.5 · 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: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship, Children's fiction

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