18 books like Turtles All the Way Down
Five Get into a Fix
The Famous Five are skiing and having a brilliant time! But there's always a mystery to solve: such as who is living in the mysterious house near their chalet? The caretaker says the house is empty...but the Five have seen a terrified face at the window...
One thing's for sure -- they have to get to the truth!
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True North (True Born Book 2)
"Confession: I love X-Men and the idea of people developing different kinds of powers, be they psychic or shapeshifting or elemental control. This is exactly what I got in True Born, and it was so cool." –Dani, Dani Reviews ThingsWelcome to Dominion City.After the great Plague descended, the world population was decimated...and their genetics damaged beyond repair.The Lasters wait hopelessly for…
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The Missing Chums
A series of bizarre events in their home town lead the Hardy Boys on a trail of robbers and kidnappers.
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Unbelievable
Four pretty little liars' charmed lives have turned into living nightmares.
Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars—because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: She's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much.
If these girls don't start listening to me,…
Shares: Teenage Girls, Missing persons, Friendship, Young Adult
Challenger Deep
A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.
Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench.
Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his…
Shares: Mental illness, Young Adult, Children's fiction
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Tip and his creation, Jack Pumpkin, run away to Oz, where they save the city after it is captured by girls.
Shares: Friendship -- Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction
Leo
Leo is a friendly house ghost--but when a family moves into his house, and tries to get rid of him, he leaves and roams the city looking for a friend.
Shares: Friendship -- Juvenile fiction, Friendship, Children's fiction
Pretties
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
Shares: Teenage Girls, Friendship, Young Adult, Children's fiction
The Fog
A special fiftieth-anniversary edition of a horror classic from James Herbert, bestselling author of The Rats.It started with a crack that ripped the earth apart. Then out of the bottomless pit creeps a malevolent fog that leaves a deadly trail in its wake.John Holman is on a secret assignment from the Department of the Environment when he is dragged into the clutches of this oppressive fog.…
Shares: Mental illness, Children's fiction
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
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, and…
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Inbetween
Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin?…
Shares: Teenage Girls, Children's fiction
Wildlife
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.
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Fearless
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, Friendship, Children's fiction
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
When Leila develops a crush on a new female student she has to decide if her sexuality is something she wants to share with everyone else.
Shares: Teenage Girls, Friendship, Young Adult, Children's fiction
Gulf
Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother's struggle with an apparent mental illness or "mystery of nature" which drives the child to assume the role of an Iraqi.
Shares: Mental illness, Children's fiction
Ghostgirl
Now I lay me down to sleep,I pray the Lord my soul to keep.And if I should die before I awake,I pray the popular attend my wake.Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school, and then one day she really is invisible. Even worse: she's dead. And all because she choked on a gummy bear. But being dead doesn't stop Charlotte from wanting to be popular; it just makes her more creative…
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Uglies
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.
But Tally's new friend Shay…
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
When Ellie and six of her friends return home from a camping trip deep in the bush, they find things hideously wrong -- their families gone, houses empty and abandoned, pets and stock dead. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in the town has been taken prisoner. As the horrible reality of the situation becomes evident they have to make a…
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