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Weetzie Bat: Read Alikes
A collection of magical realistic stories narrated by Eva Luna. Allende, Isabel Of Love and Shadows . Knopf, 1987. A reporter and photographer undercover a hidden crime which could upset politics of a nation. Barker, Clive. Abarat . Joanna Cotler Books, 2002. Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown , Minnesota , one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed. Black, Holly. Tithe: A Modern Fairy Tale . Simon & Schuster, 2002. Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father. Corrigan, Eireann. You Remind Me of You . Push, 2002. A poetry memoir of a girl battling eating disorders and coping with her boyfriend's attempted suicide. De Lint, Charles. Memory and Dream. Tor, 1994. The story of an artist who can bring ancient spirits into her world. Donoghue, Emma. Kissing the Witch . Harper Collins, 1997. A collection of thirteen interconnected stories that give old fairy tales a new twist. Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate . Doubleday, 2003. A romantic tale from Mexico sprinkled with recipes and home remedies.
In the 1970s, a family of five daughters commit suicide, and twenty years later, a man who knew them tries to pull together the pieces of what happened. Fitch, Janet. White Oleander. Little, Brown, 1999. After her mother goes to jail, twelve year old Astrid is bounced between dysfunctional foster parents. Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold . Knopf, 1983. A man returns to the scene of a crime to determine what happened twenty-seven years earlier. Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel. Leaf Storm . Avon Books, 1978. A collection of seven short stories. Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere. Avon , 1997. Richard Mayhew helps a girl only to find out that she is nobility in an underground world. Gilchrist, Ellen. Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle . Little, Brown, 1989. A collection of short stories set in the south.
Two high school graduates set out on a road trip to find slam poetry competitions. Hoffman, Alice . Green Angel . Scholastic, 2003. Green watches her city burn to the ground and retreats to her garden to cope. Hoffman, Alice . Aquamarine . Scholastic, 2001. Best friends meet a mermaid who is looking for love on land. James, Brian. Tomorrow, Maybe . Push, 2003. A fifteen year old runaway takes a young girl under her wings. Johnson, Angela. Looking for Red . Simon and Schuster, 2002. The story of a girl who learns to live without her brother. Kerouac, Jack. On The Road . Viking, 1957. One of the seminal works of the beat movement, On the Road is a fictionalized memoir of a cross-country journey.
A seventeen year old loner becomes involved with a homeless man. Luna, Louisa. Brave New Girl . MTV Books, 2002. A coming of age story about a young outcast. McNamee, Graham. Hate You . Delacorte, 1999. A girl whose voice was damaged by her abusive father writes songs to deal with her past. Moon, Russell. Witch Boy . HarperTempest, 2002. The first in a trilogy about a boy with strange powers who moves to a new town. Rosenberg, Liz. 17. Cricket, 2002. A novel in prose poems that follow Stephanie through fall to spring and her first love.
A manga series about a girl who meets a handsome stranger. Trope, Zoe. Please Don't Kill the Freshman . Harper Tempest, 2004. A memoir in diary entries chronicles the difficulties of finding an identity in high school. Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard Love. Simon and Schuster, 1999. After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality. Wolff , Virginia Euwer. Make Lemonade . Henry Holt, 1993. In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother. Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen . Grove/Atlantic, 1993. A girl who lost her grandmother finds comfort in her kitchen. Yoshimoto, Banana. Goodbye Tsugumi . Grove/Atlantic, 2003. Maria and her cousin spend one last summer together.
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Allende, Isabel. The Stories of Eva Luna . Atheneum, 1991.
Cohn, Rachel. Gingerbread . Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993.
High, Linda Oatman. Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip . Bloomsbury , 2004.
Koja, Kathe. Blue Mirror . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004.
So-Young, Lee. Model . TokyoPop, 2004.