Books like Cracked Up to Be
12 books with a reading profile close to Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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This Song Will Save Your Life
by Leila Sales
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Elise Dembowski exists on the social periphery of her high school, failing at every attempt to manufacture a likable persona.
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Willow
by Julia Hoban
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Willow is a sixteen-year-old whose parents have died in a car accident for which she blames herself, and who now lives with her older brother Mark in a new town.
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The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
by Sonora Reyes
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Aoife Torres, who goes by Yami, is a Mexican-American teenager who is forced to move to a Catholic school after a scandal involving her old public school.
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4
A Fall of Marigolds
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
In 1911, Taryn Michaels witnesses the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in Manhattan, an event that claims the life of the man she loves.
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Sarah Agnes Prine chronicles twenty years of her life in the Arizona Territory through handwritten diary entries.
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Roller Girl
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Twelve-year-old Astrid Vasquez signs up for a junior roller derby summer camp, a decision that creates a rift with her best friend, Nicole, who prefers ballet.
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7
Hang the Moon
narrative, accessible
Set in Prohibition-era Virginia, the story follows Sallie Kincaid, the daughter of a wealthy local patriarch known as the Duke.
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8
Piecing Me Together
by Renée Watson
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Jade is a Black teenager from a poor Portland neighborhood who commutes to a mostly white private high school on scholarship.
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9
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
by Louis Sachar
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Bradley Chalkers is the worst kid in fifth grade, a liar and bully who sits alone in the back of the class and has no friends.
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10
The Runaway Bunny/Goodnight Moon
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
In this compilation of two classic children’s stories, Margaret Wise Brown focuses on the physical and emotional security of home.
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Where the Wild Things Are CD
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
After his mother sends him to bed without supper for behaving like a wild animal, a young boy named Max discovers his bedroom transforming into a vast tropical forest.
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Moxie
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
In a small Texas town, sixteen-year-old Vivian Carter grows tired of her high school’s double standards, ranging from sexist dress code enforcement to the unchecked harassment from the football team.
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