Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Novels for fans of Smile, Sisters, or Drama
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
Holm, Jennifer L.
The first year of middle school can be exciting, or scary, just ask Ginny. ...
Reel Life Starring Us
Greenwald, Lisa.
Dina is used to being popular but starting a new school in eighth grade is difficult, especially whe...
Talia Talk
Deriso, Christine Hurley, 1961-
Trying to fit in despite having a loud, embarrassing best friend, eleven-year-old Talia becomes a co...
Better Nate than Ever
Federle, Tim.
An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New Y...
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Holm, Jennifer L., author.
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turne...
Half a Chance
Lord, Cynthia, author.
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New ...
Ten Rules for Living With My Sister
Martin, Ann M., 1955-
Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, bu...
Ungifted
Korman, Gordon.
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Di...
Blackbird Fly
Kelly, Erin Entrada, author.
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, deci...
Dream on, Amber
Shevah, Emma, author.
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now ...
Fish in a Tree
Hunt, Lynda Mullaly, author.
"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is b...
Goodbye Stranger
Stead, Rebecca, author.
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best frie...
Little Blog on the Prairie
Bell, Cathleen Davitt.
Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, wit...
The Popularity Papers: Research for the social improvement and general betterment of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang
Ignatow, Amy.
Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their e...